The manroland sheetfed drupa stand has the new Roland 700 Evolution as its centrepoint, which the company says will exceed the needs of commercial and packaging printers.

The new press is an upgrade of the Evolution launched 18 months ago and comes with a brand new operating concept, inline everything including cold foiling and  a choice of drying systems including LED UV.

Steve Dunwell, managing director of manroland Australasia says, “The new Roland 700 Evolution offers unparalleled efficiencies combined with manroland’s unbeatable print quality.

“We are targeting packaging printers and top end commercial printers who need to know that they will be capable of producing the best print available.”

The Roland 700 Evolution comes with a new Press Pilot intuitive control system, a new feeder, new drive technology, and can be made ready fully automatically in less than five minutes.

The new press can also incorporate inkjet heads for variable data. However speaking just prior to the show’s opening manroland CEO Rafael Penuela said that the co-operation agreement signed with Landa at the last drupa has run out because the criteria that manroland needed – 12,000sph, maximum substrate capability and offset quality – had not yet been achieved.

Steve Dunwell says that thje company’s successful service programme which has been implemented in its web business will now be available in sheetfed too. This sees manroland manage a proactive programme which the company says can deliver significant productivity uplift, up to 20 per cent or more.

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