For quite the longest time silkscreen-printing used to be the dominating technology when it comes to optical disc decoration. This has changed dramatically since DVDs are on the move. The media DVD convinces by highest quality especially for movies and entertainment even prior to its tremendous capacity. No wonder that publishers wish to demonstrate the capability of their products right at first sight: with high quality and photorealistic print images.
This must not remain a wishful thinking. Company KBA-Metronic AG (Germany) has invented its unique short-inking-unitoffset technology already in the 90´s and has successfully installed several hundred print units world-wide in the card and optical disc market since then.

This must not remain a wishful thinking. Company KBA-Metronic AG (Germany) has invented its unique short-inking-unitoffset technology already in the 90´s and has successfully installed several hundred print units world-wide in the card and optical disc market since then.In opposition to the current opinion that offset-printing is a highly sophisticated technology that requests professional operators KBA-Metronics offset technology offers easy operation, short set-up times, quick motif-change and high, photorealistic print quality. Instead of up to approx. 20 rollers to adjust ink transfer KBA-Metronics short-inking-unit technology only uses five cylinders in a vertical line – easy to operate, easy to adjust, easy to maintain! By the use of anilox rollers as usually mainly known in flexographic printing KBA-Metronic stands for constant ink transfer and reliable reproducability even after years. By temperature-controlled anilox- and print-cylinders the ink-transfer is adjustable to the requested look and feel of the product decoration. The settings of the parameters can be stored in the memory of the printing machines and thus offer a reliable reproducability, which becomes more and more important especially for repeatable short-run jobs.

KBA-Metronic offers a range of job-oriented solutions for high-quality printing on optical discs, but also additional options such as camera-inspection, pre-press-equipment or coding & marking technology for product traceability, identification or security. KBA-Metronic AG is a mid-sized machinery manufacturer with expertise in offset-printing-technologies as well as in solutions for coding & marking applications, especially in the inkjet field (alphaJET C). Located near Würzburg, KBA-Metronic is known to be active in all relevant industry nations worldwide either through its subsidiaries in Austria, the United Kingdom and the BeNe Lux-countries or distributors and partners.

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