Retrofits & Upgrades for Web Printing Presses

Retrofitting a module to produce the quarter fold is an interesting means for you to increase format variety in your product portfolio and open up profitable new market segments.

Whether as special flyers for events, television guides or simply as advertisements, these small, compact products are frequently picked up, read through several times and kept by the readers.

Since the quarterfold is produced inline with a retrofit module, the corresponding production sequence previously done in postpress is no longer needed. Postpress folding equipment can be eliminated which frees-up space.

Combinable with other Koenig & Bauer solutions like inline stitchers or a gluing device at the former

• Attractive, practical product format
• Save costs with inline finishing
• Constantly high processing quality

The visible flap area offers a variety of categorisation options and additional advertising options. With a flap-type index, the reader can immediately find what he is looking for. Advertisers can use the flap to present different kinds of offers separately and in a clearly structured manner.

This advertising format, which has already received numerous awards from various specialised bodies, is already being run by Koenig & Bauer customers and is also very popular amongst advertisers.

• Flap-type index to categorise the subject areas
• Additional advertising options
• Prize-winning, attractive ad format
• Eye-catcher effect

*with the kind consent of Druckerei Konstanz GmbH and Südkurier GmbH; patent number: EP 2 639 066 B1

By retrofitting a gluing system and cutting unit in the superstructure, you can create the preconditions to produce advertisements in various superpanorama formats.

Get the unique opportunity to cost-effectively enhance your product portfolio with new attractive superpanorama variants. With these XXL advertising spaces up to six pages wide, you can offer your customers enough room for unusual and striking presentations of their brands.

• XXL formats for up to 6 broadsheet pages
• Quick and easy to retrofit
• New sales opportunities with new attractive advertisment formats

Use our Zip’n’Buy perforation modules to create attractive prize competitions or coupon campaigns. The relevant sections can be separated quickly and easily with no external aids, increasing readers’ incentive to participate in promotional activities.

We have developed two different perforation systems in order to meet the different requirements of our customers:

Zip'n'Buy

• Cost-effective strategy
• Quick and easy installation
• Rapid conversion

Zip'n'Buy Plus

• Perforations of the very highest quality
• Also suitable for a high paper grammage
• Frequency-controlled lower blade
• Designed to feature a single or double perforating blade

• Tear-out perforations for coupon campaigns
• Two versions for different application areas
• Perforation at maximum press speed

With a press retrofit, motors, control systems, software, switch cabinets, controllers or the entire system – depending on requirements – are replaced by the next generation of products.

Retrofits are planned precisely in advance and are adapted to your needs. Your concerns, e. g. fixed production times, are taken into account. In this way, you benefit with a smooth, fast and professional implementation of the project.

Depending on your wishes, the retrofit can be carried out in one big operation or in several small steps. For example, you can replace individual press components now or later (depending on your stock of spare parts) with the latest generation of equipment. That gives you increased flexibility with your budget planning.

• Press and spare parts availability guaranteed for the future
• Reduced maintenance with reliable system components
• Retrofits can be realised in several stages

Enhance the static contents of your offset printed products with variable information. An InkJet imprinting system is the ideal tool to create gaming and individual
advertising. It offers various possibilities:

• Number codes and letter codes
• Texts
• URL and internet addresses
• Barcodes, QR codes
• Graphics
• Symbols

New opportunities for cross-media marketing
QR codes, URLs or changing graphics could take over central incentive roles as part of multi-channel campaigns.

Microzoning
The newspaper circulation area can be segmented into specific zones (town, district, etc.). The inkjet system allows you to imprint varied advertising contents for these so-called microzones – without plate change. Local traders can target customers around a particular zone.

Unequalled imprinting quality
The resolutions of 200 dpi (15 m/s max.) and 300 dpi (10 m/s) are not attained by any other system at the same speeds.

• Add value to your offset products by imprinting variable information
• New opportunities for gaming, microzoning, crossmedia marketing, etc.
• Imprinting at up to 15 m/s

Consistently convincing print quality
Polymerisation ensures immediate ink curing during printing, maintaining the approved colour from the start. Sharper dots, less dot gain, and higher colour saturation create more intense, high-contrast images.

Beyond visuals
Abrasion-resistant LED-UV ink often eliminates the need for silicone or protective varnish. The process only affects the ink, preserving the paper's natural texture and feel.

Environment- and resource-friendly
LEDcuring is ozone and mercury-free, using no fossil fuels like natural gas. Lower energy consumption compared to conventional heatset dryers conserves resources.

Modern LED lamp technology
Economical, long-lasting LEDs offer rapid operational readiness, eliminating long start-up times and stand-by operation. This results in faster press readiness and reduced waste compared to gas dryers.

• Very good print quality
• Lower energy and maintenance costs and lower waste rate
• No fossil fuels
• Significant CO2 savings
• No waving, no more stretching
• No ozone, no mercury, no silicone

The rugged MobileConsole tablet allows press control and direct access to documentation from anywhere, improving press operation and maintenance.

Backup control
The MobileConsole provides additional production reliability, serving as a backup press control console should the main console malfunction.

Perfect for pressroom management
Enables constant monitoring of key production data and reports, accessible remotely.

Ideal for maintenance tasks
Grants maintenance staff direct access to press console operating/control functions, service PC documentation, and error messages.

• Decentralised press control
• Important production data from the console directly on the tablet
• Additional backup console

Ideal for newspapers using tabloid inserts, the Koenig & Bauer SkipSlitter cleanly slits every second section in collect mode, enabling insertion into broadsheet products as loose sheets or stitched tabloids. Suitable for advertisements, TV guides, or supplements.

The SkipSlitter enables tabloid newspaper production, including incorporating broadsheet Superpanorama products for XXL advertisements.

• Save time and costs through inline finishing
• Exact positioning during production, high quality of the cut
• Interesting opportunities for tabloid productions