KBA has followed up its DRUPA focus on the new C16 heatset press with a further sale, this time to German printer ADV Schoder.

The 150-year-old Gersthofen business is about to install a B1-sized Rapida 106 sheetfed press, with the C16 set to follow four months later.

ADV Scoder prints catalogues, direct mail, magazines and supplements on one sheetfed press and seven webs at plants in Gersthofen – where the new presses will replace older KBA plant – and Augsburg

The investments are part of a decision to go for quality rather than growth, with the attendant risk of over-capacity, because it did not want to have to trim prices to maintain plant utilisation levels.

The five-colours-plus-coater R106 is scheduled to come on stream in August, with the C16 – with sheeter, broadsheet delivery and capacity to print stock up to 250 gsm – follows in December. While it will primarily be used for bulk mail, mailing components and inserts, it will also print covers and additional products for catalogues and magazines on heavier stock. It will have an aqueous coater, perforator and die-stamping unit.

Inline colour measurement and control software from System Brunner and Quad-Tech have been specified.