Printing machines for Iris Printing SA in Athens. Complete package order for KBA from Greece

Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) has received the up to now largest single order from a Greek printing company, Iris Printing SA in Athens. It is a joint owned company of Lambrakis Press and Pegasus. The company has ordered four identical KBA Comet machine lines, a jobbing rotary KBA Compacta 408 and four sheet offset machines of the KBA Rapida 105 series. The installation of the Comet rotaries with a total of 224 printing sites will occur by the end of 2001. The KBA Compacta 408 is expected to be in operation by mid 2002. Two of the medium format Rapida 105 machines, all running in four colors, go in spring 2001 to the new printing establishment in Athens. The other two machines are slated for a site in Cyprus. At Tegopoulos Editions SA in Athens a KBA Comet operates since April 2000 and a Compacta 215 produces since the end of July 2000. The KBA machine park is rounded out with a medium format sheet offset Rapida 105 machine. In November 2001 will come a Compacta 618 for use especially for journals, magazines, and brochures for a greater four color output. At the end of 2001 the Comet facility will be fitted out with a hot air dryer. The newspaper house Kathimerini SA in Athens uses a Comet facility with heat set and has ordered another Comet rotary to extend the capacity for the booming semi-commercial market in Greece, to be delivered in the summer of 2001. E. Daniel & Co SA in Athens produces with a five color Rapida 104, Neotyp Printing & Publishing in Athens prints with a Rapida 105 in six color and four color versions and Haidemenos SA in Alimos near Athens uses a KBA Compacta 215. Within a few years KBA has assumed a leadership position in Greece in newspaper and job rotary printing and its position in sheet offset machines has increased in the market there. Photograph.