KBA integrates Atlantic Zeiser’s Delta into new Rapida

Atlantic Zeiser, a developer of industrial digital and security printing equipment, is to deliver the Delta 105i high-speed digital printer to Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) for inline integration into the new generation sheetfed offset Rapida 105.

The Rapida 105 with the integrated Delta printers will be on show at drupa at the KBA stand in hall 16, stand C47.

Legal requirements and the rapidly growing number of product forgeries make high quality, individual coding and serializing a necessity for product tracking and forgery protection on individual packs, for example. The 2-D Datamatrix barcodes required to do this can be printed by digital printing systems from Atlantic Zeiser and checked directly and inline via integrated verification systems such as Vericam. This also facilitates transparent quality management and sustainable quality assurance.

Carl-Michael Heüveldop, head of business development, Atlantic Zeiser, commented: ‘We anticipated the market's need for individual coding and serializing of products with variable data early on. Developments within the EU to implement binding national regulations for standardized product and coding and serializing for product traceability of pharmaceutical goods by 2013 underline the market opportunities; and this is just one defined market sector. We are very proud that KBA, following in-depth inspection procedures and comprehensive testing, chose our Delta digital printing solution and the optional Vericam verification system as an integrated package for individual coding and serializing on its new Rapida 105.’

Jürgen Veil, head of marketing, sheetfed offset, Koenig & Bauer, said: ‘We have designed the latest Rapida medium format generation to offer our customers the maximum range of applications increasingly being demanded by the sheet offset printer market in recent years. A key point here is the integrated option to code and serialize sheet, label and packaging printing variably inline. As a result, we have been looking for powerful, compact and flexible digital printing systems, and we found just what we were looking for in the Delta from Atlantic Zeiser. The European debut of this hybrid solution in large format will be on our drupa stand. This concept has already found considerable success in Asia and we have seen 20 orders for the new Rapida 105.’

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