Druckerei Brücker in Gossau/Switzerland is a modern and regionally established printing business. Here, the customers are looked after by the proprietor himself, who offers them individual print solutions with a high degree of versatility, substrate flexibility, quality and creativity. Since the beginning of 2019, Druckerei Brücker has been using a Rapida 76 with six printing units and inline coater to print short to medium runs on both paper and board substrates. This has given a further decisive boost to efficiency, flexibility and solution diversity.

The latest investment can be seen as purposeful implementation of proprietor Dominik Brücker’s dual strategy for commercial and packaging printing. Together with the sister company Interprint, a packaging printing business in Altstätten (St. Gallen) which operates a five-colour Rapida 105 coater press, he can present a promising spectrum of commercial and packaging printing services covering both half and medium formats.

The new Rapida 76

The success of plans to expand the service portfolio and secure maximum customer satisfaction is always dependent on innovative strength and not least the availability of productive, future-oriented and high-quality means of production. With his new high-tech half-format press from Koenig & Bauer, Brücker is able to define the standards even beyond his local region.

The Rapida 76 is a highly automated six-colour press with inline coater and facilities to handle substrates from 0.04 to 0.8mm (1.6 to 32thou) from a minimum of A4 up to a special enlarged format. Highlights include the unique sidelay-free infeed (SIS) and a DriveTronic feeder, as well as a fully automatic plate changing system (FAPC) and automatically disengaged inking units. The Rapida 76 is also equipped with an extremely fast and highly accurate inline colour measuring and control system, automatic register and synchronised washing systems which can be used parallel to other makeready processes. The console, furthermore, features the ultra-modern TouchTronic operating concept with an AutoRun function (autonomous production of a sequence of several jobs).

The ultra-modern coating unit, in combination with energy-efficient VariDryBlue dryer systems in the extended delivery, establishes ideal prerequisites for high-quality finishing at maximum production speeds and with the shortest possible makeready times.

The Rapida 76 is integrated into the overall printshop workflow via the production management system LogoTronic Professional. Brücker can also rely on optimum support through the additional comprehensive service and maintenance package “Select & More”.

Left to right: Proprietor Dominik Brücker and his print technologists Jonas Küng and Janette Enadeghe join key account manager Daniel Büsch from Koenig & Bauer (CH) at the Rapida 76

Manuela van Husen