Komori Corporation has announced the introduction of its newest addition to the Lithrone G Series—the Lithrone GX44RP offset press. The one-pass double-sided sheetfed offset press, the 44-inch Lithrone GX44RP is equipped with H-UV curing. Designed to deliver high quality, high productivity and short turnaround stability for perfecting or double-sided printing, the press is meant for applications such as publication printing (magazines and books) and duplex package printing.

The 44-inch G series presses offer a maximum printing speed of 15,000 sheets an hour and a sheet thickness range of 0.04–0.8 mm. The wide 840 x 1,150 mm maximum sheet size accommodates the requirements of the growing market for ganging-up of several jobs in a single run as well as impositions in a range of sizes.

Key features of the new press include single-edge gripping, which makes the margin on the tail edge of the sheets unnecessary and enables paper costs to be cut by minimizing the sheet size, and the use of four double-size transfer cylinders, which eliminates sheet reversal and ensures stable sheet transport for handling either light or heavy stocks through. Additionally, just as with single-sided presses, front and back plate imaging is in the same direction which increases prepress efficiency.

Supported by the KHS-AI integrated control system, bender-less Full-APC and the H-UV curing system, the Lithrone GX44RP provides cutting-edge short makeready and powder-less instant drying to accommodate fast turnarounds. In addition, options that can be included are the A-APC Asynchronous Automatic Plate Changer, the PDC-SX Spectral Print Density Control SX Model and the PQA-S Print Quality Assessment System to achieve even higher levels of quality and productivity.