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New offset KBA Rapida 75-5+L at the Poligrafia company in Lowicz.

On 17 June 2010, the company Poligrafia in Poland’s Lowicz put a new five-colour sheet offset printer into operation – the KBA Rapida 75-5+L. This is the second printer in a row from the KBA-Grafitec company, based in Dobruška in the Czech Republic; a half-format printer, a Polly 466, has been in operation here since 1998.

The Galileo operating system, issued by the Grandsoft polygraphic company, was introduced in the Poligrafia printshop, co-financed from European Union funds and the national budget as part of the investment project.

At the newly-installed KBA Rapida 75-5+L printer, from left: WIESŁAW KACPRZAK – Chairman of the Board, Poligrafia company , JENS JUNKER – Vice president of KBA-Poland and CEO of KBA-Grafitec, OLIVER BECKER – CEO of KBA-Poland.

Zakład Wielobranżowy Poligrafia Kacprzak Adwentowski s.j. has been active on the polygraphic services market since 1991.
The company has been providing services mainly for companies from the provinces of Mazowieckie and Lodzkie (representing, among others, the foodstuffs, textile, and pharmaceutical industries) and offers a wide spectrum of sheet offset technical services – books, magazines, flyers, catalogues, calendars, price lists, labels, etc. The basis of the special DTP department and its printing park is the CtP Magnus system from Kodak, a multitude of book-binding and heat-treatment equipment, and three half-format sheet offset printers. The newest of these printers is the already-mentioned KBA Rapida 75-5+L.

The ceremonial launching of the printer into operation was attended by representatives of the city and local offices, the printer suppliers KBA-Poland (with KBA Poland Director Oliver Becker and CEO of KBA Grafitec Jens Junker) and Grandsoft (represented by Director Robert Borowczyk) and many other firms that have cooperated with Poligrafia for several years: Map Polska – paper supplier, Polmasz – authorized KBA printer service, Ricoh Polska – supplier of digital print systems (the Lowicz company is an authorized distributor of this producer’s office supply solutions), printshop customers, and expert members of the press.

Bishop Alojzy Orszulik bestows a blessing on the newly-launched KBA Rapida 75-5+L printer. In the background is Wiesław Kacprzak, CEO of Poligrafia.

Wiesław Kacprzak, CEO and co-owner of Poligrafia s.j. welcomed all present in his introductory speech, thanked them for coming, and emphasized the efforts of all present in the company’s development and in the realization of its goals. Next, Alojzy Orszulik, a Bishop and friend of the company, blessed the newly-launched printer and used the opportunity to reminisce on a number of stories from the time when he was responding to contacts with the media and cooperation with printshops in the Warsaw Diecese. Wiesław Kacprzak accepted many congratulations from the representatives of the city offices as well as suppliers of individual solutions. Among them was Jens Junker, Vice president of KBA-Poland and CEO of KBA-Grafitec. Jens Junker congratulated the owners of the printshop for the developments and courage in deciding to make another investment, particularly in this field at a difficult time. He also emphasized the fact that the newly-acquired KBA Rapida 75 is a natural successor of the Polly 466 printer which has served the Lowicz printshop successfully since 1998. „I hope that the printer that has officially been launched into operation today will play a large part in the further successes of the Poligrafia company and will serve at least as many years as its predecessor,“ stated Jens Junker.

The KBA Rapida 75-5+L purchased by the Lowicz Poligrafia company is equipped with many options that automatize and perfect its operation.

The supplied KBA Rapida 75-5+L printer is equipped with five printing units and a tower coater with high sorting. The printer works at up to 15 thousand sheets per hour and can handle sheets of a size up to 520x750 mm. The printer, by request, was equipped with a number of supplementary functions that automatize its operation and allow for a reduction of maculature (max. 50 s/printing unit), automatic colouring unit washing system, offset and anti-pressure rollers, impurity remover from the printing plates, KBA DensiTronic system for densitometric measurement of the control bar, and a KBA ErgoTronic console with a JDF standard compatible interface. The quality and life-span of printouts on the KBA Rapida 75 can be increased by disperse coating in the tower coater equipped with the chamber cleaning blade, drying system, and extended sorter. The KBA Rapida printer, as well as the Galileo operating software from the company Grandsoft, were introduced to the Poligrafia printshop at the same time and were partly financed from the European Union’s Local Development Fund and the national budget.

„We’re very glad to have been able to realize this investment project,“ said Wiesław Kacprzak at the printer-launching ceremony. „We selected the KBA Rapida printer for many reasons, one of them being the very good experience we’ve had with the Polly 466 printer we’ve been using so far, produced in the same factory that now belongs to the KBA concern. Our many years of cooperation with Mr. Mariusz Drejka of Polmasz (authorized KBA printer service) also played an important role. When choosing the printer we looked at not only the technological questions but also at its small size which allowed us to include the required configuration – five printing units and tower coater that allows for heat treating in the in-line mode, and not, like we have so far, with the help of the equipment itself. This was very important, considering the limited space for a new printer. We hope that the KBA Rapida 75-5+L will be a further impulse for us in the development of our printshop, now the largest polygraphic company in the Lowicz area, and will contribute to even better and more efficient service to our existing clients as well as in gaining new clients.“ Following the official portion of the ceremony, the visitors transferred to nearby Nieborow where they could take a tour of the Radziwill Palace. The meeting culminated in a lunch together at the nearby restaurant „Bílá Dáma”.