Marrs Printing & Packaging, a full-service digital and offset print provider, located in a 45,000sq ft facility in City of Industry in Southern California has adapted its entire packaging production environment to solving the challenges of short-run, colour consistent, rapid speed-to-market for today’s well-known consumer products. This includes the latest technology in digital presses and finishing equipment as well as two recent installations of a Koenig & Bauer Rapida 106. The family-owned firm are now adding another level of pressroom power to its arsenal of equipment – a third new Koenig & Bauer Rapida 106 seven-colour full LED-UV offset press with board and plastic packages.
Having three Koenig & Bauer Rapida presses side-by-side will allow Marrs to drive maximum performance and yield significant results especially for short-run fast turnaround jobs. The Rapida’s significant speed of 18,000 sph along with its fully automatic plate changing system helps to reduce manual intervention during production and retain those higher press speeds.
Maintaining consistent and vibrant brand colours is one of the most important demands, so Marrs has equipped its new Rapida 106 with advanced inline and online systems, such as the Koenig & Bauer QualiTronic ColorControl and ErgoTronic Color Control. These systems automatically run colour control and quality checks based on each individual brand’s logo and signature colour recognition to provide assurance to Marrs’ customers.
The newest member of the pressroom can print with both conventional and UV inks and coatings and handle a broad range of substrates up to 1.2mm thick. Eagle Systems, a premier cold foiling manufacturer, is adding their system to the Rapida 106 for producing folding cartons that will stand out even further in the market.
Left to right: Marcus Schoen, Koenig & Bauer Sales Manager and Scott Marrs, Vice President at Marrs Printing & Packaging.
