The Druzhba printing

Newspaper printing

The Druzhba printing house is the newest newspaper printing house in Bulgaria. It boasts a KBA EXPRESS 60 rotary offset printing press with four high-speed 9-cylinder satellite printing units. Two of them offer a 4/1 colour printing option and two are 2/2 colour units. Combining them can result in 4/4 colour. The press operates in fully air-conditioned premises where temperatures and air humidity are kept stable to meet the optimal printing conditions requirements.

Technical specifications:

1. Maximum revolutions - 30 000 cylinder revs per hour;
2. Working revolutions – 25 000 revs/hr
3. Maximum printing speed – 9,3 m/sec
4. Web width - 1580, 1185, 790 mm;
5. Colour printing - 2+2, 4+1, 4+4
6. Cylinder circumference – 1120 mm.
7. Cutt-off length - 560 mm.
8. Tabloid format size – 280 х 395 mm.
9. Maximum number of tabloid pages printed in 4/4 colour per revolution - 64

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Combined production line for production of newspaper and sheetfed printing plates.

Kodak Trendsetter - 2008 – 2
Developing machines - KODAK Mercury V6
NELA Ecobender

1. Production capacity: up to 50 plates per hour for sheetfed printing and up to 250 plates per hour for newspaper printing
2. Imposition software: Kodak Preps
3. RIP: Harlequin
4. Resolutions: 1200, 2400 dpi
5. Lineatures: 56 - 203 lpi
6. Raster: conventional and stochastic

For all printing types we use KODAK DITP Gold thermal printing plates, certified for 10-micron stochastic screening.

Plate sizes: KBA Express 60 – 386 x 561 mm