Recommended Inks & Coatings for Sheetfed Offset Presses

Tested and recommended for your press

Suitable consumables are a decisive prerequisite for optimum use of your Rapida sheetfed offset press. High-quality inks and coatings provide for brilliant print and finishing results. The ideal products for use on your Rapida press are identified by the seal of quality "Recommended Product".

  • Recommended products of our partners
  • Tested product quality
  • Products optimised for use on Rapida sheetfed offset presses

Suitable consumables are a decisive prerequisite for optimum use of your Rapida sheetfed offset press. High-quality inks and coatings provide for brilliant print and finishing results.

The consumables which you require for different purposes must usually be obtained from a multitude of individual suppliers. To help you with your purchase decisions, we have tested the quality and performance of various products from renowned consumables suppliers.

The ideal products for use on your Rapida press are identified by the seal of quality “Recommended Product”.

Customers who use hubergroup inks recommended by Koenig & Bauer benefit from tested ink systems specially optimised for fast Rapidas.

Particular strengths of the recommended conventional inks include lower ink consumption, colour brilliance, high print contrast, smooth printing, good ink handling and solids printing.

We recommend the following ink series depending on the application:

  • Straight printing: Rapida 250, Maxxima 250 (mineral oil-based) or Resista 250, Resista 260 (vegetable oil-based)
  • In perfecting mode: Maxxima 250 (mineral oil-based) or Resista 250, Resista 260 (vegetable oil-based)
  • For packaging printing: Rapida 250 (mineral oil-based) or Resista 250, Resista 260 (vegetable oil-based)
  • Especially for food packaging: MGA Natura and MGA Corona
  • As well as a number of special applications such as printing on non-absorbent substrates or Fast Work & Turn

Further information on products and ordering at https://www.hubergroup.com/.

Extensive technical and technological testing with UV-cured ink systems on all Rapida sheetfed offset press series showed that Toyo UV inks are the ideal complement to our presses when it comes to UV printing. This assessment applies equally for the use of highly reactive HR-UV and LED-UV inks.

Recommended ink series: Flash Dry

On this basis, Koenig & Bauer recommends use of the Toyo Flash Dry ink series, especially for the innovative LED-UV process. Toyo inks are in successful use on all UV presses in the customer and training centres at Koenig & Bauer Sheetfed.

Further information on products and ordering can be found at https://toyoink.eu/.

For outstanding finishing quality and high performance in the inline coating process, Koenig & Bauer recommends the use of high-quality coating systems from our strategic partner ACTEGA Coatings & Sealants, a division of the global speciality chemicals group ALTANA.

The cooperation covers water-based, UV, HR‑UV and LED-UV coatings

As a user, you benefit not least from pre-defined product standards. New products are already tested and optimised for use on Rapida sheetfed offset presses.

Further information on products and ordering can be found at https://actega.com/.

Contact

Are you interested or have any further questions?

Michael Hering

(+49) 351 833 1496

Koenig & Bauer Sheetfed
Friedrich-List-Str. 47
01445 Radebeul