KBA Partners with System Brunner for Color Quality

DALLAS, Texas—KBA North America (www.kba.com) is partnering with System Brunner, a global supplier of process control, color control, quality assurance, and standardization, to create a new inline measurement and control system that guarantees optimum color fidelity in sheetfed presses. This new system combines KBA’s density-based inline QualiTronic Color Control with the full-scale version of System Brunner’s Instrument Flight® inking unit control software, which prioritizes grey balance values and creates a closed-loop system for measuring and controlling color during the press run.

The new system will make its debut on a KBA Rapida 106 41-inch sheetfed press at the KBA booth at Ipex 2010 international trade fair from May 18-25 in Birmingham, England. Following the premier in England, the new system will be available for mid-size format presses later this summer in the United States and small- to large-format presses later in the year.

KBA QualiTronic Color Control with Instrument Flight® offers Rapida sheetfed press operators additional options for expanding process automation to support high-quality color fidelity, which has a positive impact on production waste and cost-efficiencies.

Instrument Flight® inking-unit control software has an underlying logic that prioritizes grey balance values. Multi-dimensional color adjustments are made based on over 30 measured process variables in order to compensate for the process dynamics of offset printing. This maintains the balance—and thus consistency—in the printed image.