KBA Continues to Hold Global Large Format Position

WILLISON, Vt.—KBA North America’s wide range of LF presses—from 51-inch up to 81-inch—offers printers of commercial, books, displays, posters, and packaging customized LF presses with advanced technology.

Technological advances revive demand
At Drupa 1995, KBA’s launch of large-format Rapida presses showcased advances in makeready, automation, manning, ease of operation and net output, closing the quality gap to medium format even though the sheets are three to four times as big. KBA not only increased its market share in core applications, such as packaging and book printing, but moved into the commercial market too. By Drupa 2004, KBA’s new superlarge-format models attracted a raft of orders from poster printers, whose run lengths are typically ultra-short, as well as from book printers and commercial printers, who were typically running only 40˝ presses up to that point.