RotaJET

Digital Webfed Printing Press

The Koenig & Bauer RotaJET is a high-volume digital printing press for the most diverse applications.

RotaJET

Digital Webfed Printing Press

  • Highly flexible and variable machine layout
  • Latest inkjet technology for top quality – even on coated offset paper
  • Precise mechanical engineering with digital flexibility
  • Maximised automation for highest efficiency

Digital Printing of the Highest Class

The Koenig & Bauer RotaJET is a high-volume printing press for diverse uses, allowing customers to explore new digital concepts. The digital printing market is a major growth area, offering flexibility and facilitating business model transformation.


Designed for industrial single-pass digital printing, the RotaJET handles various substrates. Its central cylinder web guidance ensures precision, quality and stability.


Trends towards individualisation, personalisation and innovative designs drive digital transformation in printing. Digital printing reduces time to market and offers flexibility for seasonal changes and product life cycles. Marketing campaigns, special events, promotions, track & trace and digital watermarks are easily implemented. Smart packaging creates new opportunities for direct customer communication.

  • Manual unwinder
  • Optional: automatic reelstand with automatic splicing
  • Integration of third-party reelstands possible

  • Cleaning of the substrate surface on one or both sides
  • With or without contact by way of a cleaning module with fan-and-filter unit
  • Antistatic system

  • Homogeneous all-over application
  • With dryer
  • Pre-coating enables the use of standard papers
  • Optional: flexo sleeve unit for spot pre-coating
  • Coating length 640 - 1,450 mm
  • Anilox roller / forme sleeve

  • 4/0, 1/1 or 4/4 inkjet printing unit
  • Central cylinder for precisely defined web guiding and perfect registration
  • 1, 2 or 4 radially arranged inkjet arrays
  • One or two printing head rows per array for maximum performance
  • CMYK or CRYK colour system
  • D65 standard illumination section for visual assessment by the operator after printing

  • Central operator displays for production planning, press control, sub-systems and peripherals
  • Intuitive touch panel control
  • Production-specific report generation
  • Optional: remote operation using a tablet

  • Max. energy efficiency through the combination of near-infrared (NIR) dryer modules and warm air circulation (wave modules)
  • Intelligent dryer management for adaptation to individual web widths and substrate characteristics
  • Integrated cooling system for straightforward and reliable inline further processing

  • Choice of dispersion or UV coating units
  • Flat coating
  • Optional: flexo sleeve unit for spot coating
  • Min./max. cut-off length: 490 - 840 mm or 640 - 1,450 mm 

  • Inline sheeter, rewinder, embossing, creasing and die-cutting units according to customer needs

  • Rewinder with manual reel changing
  • Optional: automatic reelstand with flying reel changes
  • Optional: Patras reel logistics for automatic further handling and transport of the printed reels

PatrasModular Substrate Transport System

Patras is a proven high-performance transport system for substrate reels from goods reception up to the winders of the printing press or the corrugator.

Workflow Solutions

  • Interface between the workflow environment and the Koenig & Bauer RotaJET
  • XML-based workflow accepts job data such as substrate type, web width, run length and the units of the Koenig & Bauer RotaJET to be used
  • Integrated PDF preflighting
  • Scalable Adobe APPE RIP
  • PDF report containing all specific production parameters, such as reel logs, ink consumption and print lengths
  • Communication of system status messages from the Koenig & Bauer RotaJET by e-mail to a designated administrator or production control desk
     

  • PQMS Basic version in every Koenig & Bauer RotaJET
  • High-resolution camera systems
  • PQMS Banding Compensation to smooth any potential fluctuations
  • Optimum alignment of each printing head via the fully automatic array control
  • Consistently high print quality – from job to job and from run to run
  • PQMS Advanced for constant monitoring of the print quality on the basis of a ‘golden image’
  • Colour deviations, image defects and errors are recorded, displayed and documented
  • Waste is reduced and the handling of downstream process steps is optimised

Specialised in Many Application Fields

Packaging Printing

Highly efficient production of shorter runs, which also allow for personalised and special interest packaging. Optional version for H1 requirements.

The trend towards ever greater diversification in the field of consumer goods poses significant challenges for brands and converters. Flying job changes enable highly efficient production of shorter runs, which also allow for personalised and special interest packaging. On the Koenig & Bauer RotaJET, the question of food safety is addressed not just in terms of the inks and other fluids, but for the press as a whole. Accordingly, it is also available in an optional version that meets H1 requirements.

RotaJET for Packaging Printing

Decor Printing

Digitally printed decors for flooring, furniture, wall and ceiling panels, kitchen plates and many more similar applications augment the range of products handled by the Koenig & Bauer RotaJET. The time to market is reduced for new designs and the production of existing decors becomes more flexible. Numerous new design options, such as decor lengths of 5,600 mm, the highlighting of key details or colour gradations without repetition, are made possible by digital printing technology.

RotaJET for Decor Printing

Book Printing

The Koenig & Bauer RotaJET cuts publishers’ process and secondary costs (waste, capital commitment, etc.) and enables the efficient production of books and other publications for on-demand delivery. The risks that accompany new publications are reduced. At the same time, delivery capability is boosted, especially when it comes to backlist titles. Customer relationships are intensified, and the added efficiency of the Koenig & Bauer RotaJET is a perfect response to the challenges of the market.

RotaJET for Book Printing

Technical Data of the RotaJET

Standard

Max. Production Speed

Up to 270 m/min (885 ft/min)

Web Width

770 - 2,250 mm (30.31 - 88.58 in) 

Max. Printing Width

2,243 mm (88.30 in)

Print Resolution

Up to 1,200 x 1,200 dpi

Paper Weight

30 - 400 g/m²

Piezo Printing Head Technology

Fujifilm Dimatix Samba

Printing Mode

Seamless print

Contact

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Koenig & Bauer Digital & Webfed
Friedrich-Koenig-Str. 4
97080 Würzburg