Philipp Lithographing Adding a Third KBA Rapida Large-Format Sheetfed Press

DALLAS—August 7, 2012—KBA North America announces that Philipp Lithographing, a leading ultra-high-quality, large-format printer based in Grafton, WI, will be adding a third large-format KBA press to its arsenal. A new 57˝ Rapida 145 six-color press will be delivered in September for installation alongside the printer’s existing KBA Rapida 205 81˝ and Rapida 162A 64˝ presses on the pressroom floor.

“Having been in business for nearly 100 years, we have built an excellent reputation as a dependable, ultra-high-quality, fast-turnaround firm with superior value-added service,” says Peter Buening, president and CEO of Philipp Litho. “Our customers like to give us challenging jobs because they know we can handle them. To continue to maintain this level of service, we decided to invest in a new large-format KBA press to produce our existing work faster and more efficiently and to open up our capacity to allow for even more throughput.”

Buening and his management team first learned about the new press from an introductory presentation by the KBA sales and technical force before the press was officially unveiled at drupa 2012 in May. What left an impression, says Buening, were the unique features not available on any other press of this size from any other competitors.