Marshall & Bruce Printing Company, based in Nashville, TN, has recently installed a new Koenig & Bauer Rapida 106 41″ seven-color press – their fourth from the sheetfed offset press manufacturer.
The company’s sales growth has prompted them to add the new press to accommodate its increased workload coming from customers in the health and beauty, personal care, and office supply industries. Fast job changes and quick handling, expert inline color and quality control, and inspection options are a few of the things that led the company to purchase the press.
“This new press is supporting our growing packaging market and is giving us more output, more efficiency, and a broader degree of capabilities than we’ve had before,” says Chip Smith, President of Marshall & Bruce. “In the past year, it has doubled our job productivity over our previous press because we’re able to run jobs through in one pass rather than two.”
“The new Rapida 106 press is advancing our goal of providing better efficiency, productivity, and quality, as well as even faster turnaround and producing high-end critical color jobs,” says Smith. “With our packaging customers, we’re seeing shorter run lengths due to better inventory management and skew proliferation. An ongoing trend is toward more versions of a particular carton so we’re faced with needing to answer that challenge of faster makeready and improved efficiencies.”
