Swedish printer taps DCOS for retrofit

For almost two decades, Boras Tidning Tryckeri (BTT) has been a cornerstone in Bold Printing Group, one of the largest printing groups in Nordic countries. The printshop in Viared (west of Boras) was established in 2002 following a joint venture between media groups Bold Printing and Gota Media. 

Gota Media is also the owner of the local newspaper Boras Tidning, who used to operate its own printshop in downtown Boras prior the joint venture. 

Gota Media decided to buy Bold Printing out of BTT and regain ownership of the printing plant. The deal will be concluded before the end of the year.

With the new owner in place, BTT decided to put their plans into action and DCOS was awarded the contract to become the automation partner for the press automation.

A KBA Colora press at the site, installed in 2002, is unique in its design. It consists of three four-high printing towers, one five-high and one folder. The five-high was not part of the original press order, but at the time the press was manufactured in Wurzburg, BTT secured another print contract requiring 80 pages and needed one additional web, the result was extending one four-high to a five-high. 

The press automation was a mix of KBA on-press automation and EAE´s section controller, control desks, planning and reporting. The drive system is a Bosch Rexroth SYNAX system. In 2012 BTT placed the order with DCOS to equip the press with its closed-loop inspection system, which included the replacement of the EAE ink-preset system.

“We have been very pleased with the original systems from KBA, EAE and Bosch Rexroth but for us this was an opportunity to unify our automations systems into one hardware and software platform,” says Mans Kallqvist, production and technical manager at BTT.

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