Offset Printing - Sheet-Fed

Standard Printing in Canton, OH, has added a new six-color, 64" KBA Rapida 164 press with coater. The new Rapida 164—its first from KBA—joins four current offset presses.

Ryobi distributor Graphic Systems North America has booked more than $8.6 million in new press sales in the last 90 days, including four separate eight-up Ryobi 920 series presses with a total of 24 print units. The newest sales and installations are evidence of increasing demand for high-technology offset presses in the United States and Canada—and also represent several important Ryobi “firsts” in both nations.

A new six-color, 40˝ Komori Lithrone G40 will allow PBM Graphics in Durham, NC, to expand its printing capacity, offer shorter turn times, and provide a boost in pressroom capacity and assurance of supply.

manroland Sheetfed GmbH has completed legal formalities to incorporate the company as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Langley Holdings PLC. The manroland deal was the third for Langley in Germany since 2001, with other acquisitions in the United States, France and the United Kingdom during the same period.

Printers from throughout North America attending Graphic Systems North America's open house on October 28-29, in Marietta, GA, will see live demos on a new five-color, eight-up Ryobi 925 press with the latest in LED-UV instant cure technology.

Ryobi has introduced the new Ryobi 928 perfector press with Panasonic LED-UV cure technology. Graphic Systems North America, a North American distributor of Ryobi equipment, will be discussing the new press and the full Ryobi lineup at the opening of its new showroom in metro Atlanta October 28-29.

For the first time in 35 years, Printing Industries of America has honored a 57”/64” sheetfed offset press with a prestigious 2013 InterTech Technology Award. Heidelberg’s Speedmaster XL 145/162 VLF press series was recognized for its twin-gripper delivery system and innovative Remote Fan-Out Control (RFOC).

AT PRINT 13, Meredith-Webb Printing of Burlington, NC, signed a contract for the purchase of a newly-launched six-color, 64˝ KBA Rapida 164 10-unit press with double coaters, UV capabilities, and the new KBA ErgoTronic console. The new press will be delivered to Meredith-Webb’s facility in January 2014.

According to Jeffrey Pallis, president of DS Graphics in Lowell, MA, after just one month of adding a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 106 Peak Performance perfecting press, Ripon is already “ripping through the work,” printing flawless wall-to-wall color, including dense reds and blues on text weight stock at 18,000 sph in perfecting mode.

SG360°, a Segerdahl Co., purchased its third six-color Komori Lithrone G40 (GL640) offset press in the span of just one year. The announcement was made at a press conference held by Komori on Saturday, September 7, in conjunction with PRINT 13.