06.19.15
Kösel, Altusried Krugzell, Germany, is known in industry circles for its entrepreneurial spirit and its high-quality books. Founded in 1593, the firm produces approximately 13 million copies per year and its 190 employees generate annual sales of around €22 million.
Kösel has won numerous awards including book printer of the year at the Druck & Medien Awards, the DID award 2014 for book finishing, the IF Design Award in the category Print Media and many more for the outstanding print and finishing quality of the books it produces.
Until now Kösel printed and finished its high-quality books on cutting-edge sheetfed offset presses and an offset web press. This firm took into account the trends in the book printing segment towards smaller runs with shrinking cycles to print-on-demand and recently ordered a KBA RotaJET 76 inkjet press from Koenig & Bauer. The new press is expected to replace the existing offset web press.
The KBA RotaJET 76 is expected to be delivered to Altusried in July 2015 and will be put into operation in August. It will mainly be used to print literary and scientific works, legal literature as well as textbooks and schoolbooks in black on both sides of the paper.
With a maximum web speed of 150mpm (500fpm) and a maximum web width of 780mm (30.7in) (equaling approximately 3,000 DIN A4 pages a minute or approximately 85m DIN A4/month), the RotaJET prints using KBA RotaColor water-based pigment inks.
Kösel has won numerous awards including book printer of the year at the Druck & Medien Awards, the DID award 2014 for book finishing, the IF Design Award in the category Print Media and many more for the outstanding print and finishing quality of the books it produces.
Until now Kösel printed and finished its high-quality books on cutting-edge sheetfed offset presses and an offset web press. This firm took into account the trends in the book printing segment towards smaller runs with shrinking cycles to print-on-demand and recently ordered a KBA RotaJET 76 inkjet press from Koenig & Bauer. The new press is expected to replace the existing offset web press.
The KBA RotaJET 76 is expected to be delivered to Altusried in July 2015 and will be put into operation in August. It will mainly be used to print literary and scientific works, legal literature as well as textbooks and schoolbooks in black on both sides of the paper.
With a maximum web speed of 150mpm (500fpm) and a maximum web width of 780mm (30.7in) (equaling approximately 3,000 DIN A4 pages a minute or approximately 85m DIN A4/month), the RotaJET prints using KBA RotaColor water-based pigment inks.