Press Differentiates Pack Firm From Competition

Trojan Litho, a Seattle (USA) packaging printer, has purchased a size six Rapida 142 eight-colour sheetfed press with coater and hybrid UV capabilities.

Trojan Litho, a Seattle (USA) packaging printer, has purchased a size six Rapida 142 eight-colour sheetfed press with coater and hybrid UV capabilities.

The press is the first of its kind in the USA to feature KBA's new Qualitronic II in-line sheet inspection system.

The press is already being installed.

Wayne Millage, president of Trojan Litho, said: "Instead of running 100,000 sheets for a box design through our 40" presses one-up, we'll be able to put through 50,000 sheets two-up.

It is equipped with a variety of features that will differentiate us from our competition." It will be Trojan Litho's first KBA press.

At present the firm is utilising five B1 six-colour sheetfed presses with aqueous coating from other press manufacturers.

Trojan Litho's new Rapida 142 will also be equipped with UV interdeck lamps at each station.

Millage added: "By having an eight-colour press with coating and UV, we'll be able to design unique jobs for our customers that other printers aren't able to offer.

We'll be able to give our customers a security feature on their jobs that is not easily copied.

The slitter allows us to utilise a 56" sheet, put two different jobs on the same sheet but only burn one set of plates and cut the sheet in half into two 28" by 40" sheets." Trojan Lithograph was founded in 1950 as a small printshop and grew steadily to become one of the premier sheetfed offset lithography houses in the American northwest.

It is still a privately-owned firm.

Its sister company, Allpak Container, located next door, is a full service corrugated packaging sheet plant, offering structural and graphic design, industrial packaging and POS displays.

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