Meredith-Webb Adds Super-sized Rapida 205

In October 2015, Meredith-Webb Printing Company in Burlington, NC will be installing a six-color KBA Rapida 205 with coater and dryer in sheet format 151 x 205cm (59.4 x 80.7in). It will be their fourth KBA press in five years. This installation shows that there is still a market, especially in display and poster printing but also other markets, for high-performance jumbo sheetfed offset in the age of wide-format digital printing.
 
Due to strong growth, in recent years Meredith-Webb has invested $20 million in printing kit, and the new Rapida 205 will offer the firm a unique position in the superlarge-format market. The press produces extra-large format, high-quality products in a highly cost-efficient manner. Its extensive automation delivers short makeready times and the economic production of smaller jobs.
 
“The new Rapida 205 will be able to print displays and packaging, point-of-sale signage for retail, and sublimation materials for the clothing and fashion industries,” said Kelly Webb, EVP at Meredith-Webb. “With six printing units and inter-station drying combined with end-of-press aqueous/UV coating facilities, we plan to introduce our unique printing capabilities to an even larger portion of the sheetfed market.”
 
Currently Meredith-Webb’s pressroom is equipped with three high-performance KBA presses: a six-color Rapida 106 with twin coaters, a Rapida 162a with seven inking units and a coater as well as a six-color Rapida 164 with two coater and two dryers.