After almost 35 years, Centro Stampa Veneto has decided to retire its old flexo newspaper press and to switch to offset. The Commander 3\/2<\/em> which is to be installed by KBA-Digital & Web Solutions will be coming on stream in Mestre near Venice in summer 2017. The new press is able to print up to 80,000 four-colour tabloid newspapers per hour (format: 440 x 300 mm \/ 17.3 x 11.8 in). For the president of the Caltagirone publishing group, Dr. Azzurra Caltagirone, the decision to work with Koenig & Bauer was only logical: \u201cWe were looking for a partner we could rely on also in the future. Koenig & Bauer was here the obvious choice.\u201d<\/p>\n The Caltagirone group owns and publishes a total of six newspapers, and views itself as the market leader in Northeast Italy. Alongside the regular titles Messaggero<\/em>, Roma, Mattino di Napoli<\/em>, Corriere Adriatico<\/em>, Ancona, Quotidiano di Puglia<\/em>, Bari and the free newspaper Leggo<\/em>, the KBA Commander will be assigned primarily to printing of the Gazzettino<\/em>\u00a0 Venezia. Some 90,000 newspapers will then be produced in seven different editions.<\/p>\n Unusual configuration with the latest hardware and software. Italian main books and newspaper printer Centro Stampa Veneto is switching from flexo to offset for newspaper press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":28047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7731],"tags":[7912,7913],"class_list":["post-30636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-en","tag-commander-en","tag-newspapers-en"],"yoast_head":"\nMarket leader in Italy<\/h1>\n
\nThe KBA Commander 3\/2 for Caltagirone comprises five four-high towers with H-type printing units and was engineered for a web width of 1320 mm (52 in). It is to be installed as an inline floor-mounted press with the operator side to the right. The five KBA Pastomat RC<\/em> reelstands are arranged alongside the printing towers and supplied via the automatic KBA Patras A<\/em> reel logistics system. When the web ribbons emerge from the printing towers, they are turned by 90\u00b0 for forwarding to the folder. The turner-bar decks, the folder superstructure with its two balloon formers and the KF 5<\/em> jaw folder are placed centrally behind the printing units. The press also incorporates automatic roller locks (KBA RollerTronic<\/em>), colour and cut-off register controls, blanket washing systems and pneumatic plate clamping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"