Landa agrees manroland partnership

Landa Corporation and manroland sheetfed have agreed a partnership that will see the press manufacturer offer new nanographic digital printing technology to its offset customer base.
 
Manroland sheetfed was formed from the insolvent manroland AG, which was divided up earlier this year.
 
It’s the second press manufacturer partnership announced by Landa in as many weeks, after striking a deal with Japan’s Komori to manufacture and market digital printing presses for commercial and other printing markets using its nanographic printing process.
 
Raphael Penuela, executive vice president and main board member for manroland sheetfed, said: ‘manroland sheetfed is committed to helping our customers meet the challenges of today’s printing industry with the most innovative and productive solutions. Clearly, that must include digital for mainstream printing. Landa nanographic printing technology offers the versatility of digital printing together with the qualities and speed of offset printing. It’s a great strategic fit.
 
‘Our goal will be to deliver to our customers new digital printing solutions by converting their existing offset presses to nanography.’
 
Benny Landa (pictured, top), Landa founder, chairman and chief executive officer, said: ‘As the newly restructured manroland sheetfed starts a new chapter, I am enthused that the company will adopt Landa Nanography on which to base its digital printing offerings.
 
‘Nanography and offset are a perfect fit. In the foreseeable future we will not see a digital printing technology capable of replacing offset for job run lengths of tens or hundreds of thousands. But the market demands ever-shorter run lengths as well as the versatility of digital. That’s where Landa nanographic printing comes in – at unmatched cost per page.’
 
Landa’s nanographic printing process is based on NanoInk. Comprised of pigment particles only tens of nanometres in size, these nano-pigments are extremely powerful absorbers of light and enable unprecedented image qualities. Landa nanographic printing is characterized by ultra-sharp dots of extremely high uniformity, high-gloss fidelity and the broadest CMYK color gamut.
 
Landa nanographic printing employs ink ejectors to create the digital ink images which get applied to the printing stock in a process that can operate at extremely high speeds and creates images offering remarkable abrasion and scratch resistance. Most notably, it can print on any off-the-shelf substrate, from coated and uncoated paper stocks to recycled carton; from newsprint to plastic packaging films – all without requiring any kind of pre-treatment or special coating – and no post-drying. Adding to this cost benefit is the fact that nanographic images are only 500 nanometres thick – about half the thickness of offset images – enabling Landa NanoInk to produce the lowest cost-per-page digital images in the industry. All of this from a water-based, energy-efficient and eco-friendly process.
 
Benny Landa added: “manroland sheetfed is one of the world’s leading providers of sheet-fed offset presses and solutions with a longstanding tradition of excellence. This new partnership combines the prestigious manroland brand with the power of nanography, enabling manroland’s extensive customer base to go digital by converting their existing manroland presses to nanography.’

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