Technology innovator Benny Landa says he will be taking orders for his Nanographic printing technology at drupa in June, although shipping will not start for 12 months.

Landa will have three presses on show; the sheetfedB1 double sided S10P designed for commercial printing, the sheetfed B1 S10 single sided for folding carton and POP, and the one metre wide web fed W10 for flexible package printing.

The company will be running live demonstrations five times a day throughout the show, which takes place May 31-June 10.

Benny Landa says, “We expect visitors to our stand at drupa to be completely blown away by the amazing performance of these products – for which we will be taking orders at drupa.”

Shipping will not begin until the early part of next year at the earliest for the range, which has slimmed down to three presses from the seven shown at drupa last time around. The presses are thought to be not yet in beta testing.

Landa’s Nano technology has gained such attention because its creator promises offset quality at offset speed (13,000sph) but with the digital benefits of no waste, no makeready, no plates and variable data printing. At a pre-drupa press briefing in Israel the S10 was running at 6,500sph.

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The inkjet technology can print on ‘virtually any’ regular offset stock, and is says Landa ‘offset competitive per print’. Printers will need to talk to Landa themselves to find out exactly what this means.

At drupa the company will also unveil Landa Nano-Metallography, a zero-waste metallisation technology that it says will halve the cost of metallised printing compared to foil transfer processes.

Landa will double the size of its drupa 2012 stand to 3,000sqm and will conduct live demonstrations of all of its Nanographic Printing Presses.

It will hold theatre presentations five times a day for the entire duration of the exhibition. Reservations can be requested in advance – recommended – at www.landanano.com/drupa, or, subject to availability, may be booked at kiosks on the Landa stand (Hall 9) during the exhibition.

“Fourteen years of nanotechnology research has enabled us to make tremendous breakthroughs in the quality, speed and cost of printing. Landa Nanographic Printing Presses produce offset quality, and now at offset speeds and offset-competitive cost per print – on virtually any paper stock,” says Benny Landa, chairman of the Landa Group.

This research has also spawned a new technology, Nano-Metallography, which will enable metallization graphics at less than half the cost of foil, with zero waste – and is quicker and simpler to use.”

Nanographic printing uses microscopic ink particles. They come in either four-colour or seven colour sets, and are water based. The Landa NanoInk colourants comprise nano-pigments that are powerful absorbers of light and, says Landa, enable unprecedented image qualities.

Dots produced using the Nanographic Printing process are only 500 nanometers thick, about half the thickness of offset images and a tenth that of toner. Landa says this highly efficient use of ink enables it to produce the lowest cost-per-page digital images.

Unlike conventional inkjet presses Nano printing uses a blanket transfer system.

For the B1 sheetfed presses Landa is using a Komori chassis and paper transport system, with the nano technology fitted on.

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