Landa launches nanographic printing

Benny Landa, the founder of digital print brand Indigo, is set to launch a new type of digital printing at Drupa, which is being heralded as the ‘second digital revolution in print’.
 
Landa Corporation’s nanography print category is said to offer the versatility of digital with the qualities and speed of offset printing.

At the heart of the nanographic printing process is Landa NanoInk. Comprised of pigment particles only tens of nanometers in size (a human hair is about 100,000 nanometers wide), 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 of any printing process.
 

‘Commercial printers don't have to choose between the versatility and short-run economics of digital printing and the low cost-per-page and high productivity of offset printing’

The Landa nanographic printing process creates images with abrasion and scratch resistance. 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. Nanographic images are only 500 nanometers thick – about half the thickness of offset images – enabling Landa NanoInk to produce the lowest cost-per-page digital images in the industry.
 
Landa nanographic printing presses employ 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. Each Landa press, which has an exceptionally small footprint even when compared to other digital presses, can print in up to eight colors and can operate at 600dpi or 1,200dpi resolution.
 
The Landa family of six nanographic printing presses, a mix of sheet-fed and web variants, will be of interest to commercial printers and packaging converters for applications that include general commercial printing, books, magazines, direct mail, labels, folding carton and flexible packaging for food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and more.
 
Benny Landa (pictured, top), chairman and CEO of Landa Corporation, said: ‘The Landa nanographic printing process is the result of 10 years of nanotechnology research. It is a true breakthrough that enables our presses to achieve amazing results.
 
‘Nanography is a truly ground-breaking development. At Drupa, we will be unveiling a complete family of sheet-fed and web presses. These include B3, B2 and B1 sheet-fed perfecting presses which operate at up to 11,000 sheets per hour for commercial and packaging printing as well as web presses for publishing and flexible packaging that range in width from 52cm to 104cm and operate at up to 200m/min.
 
‘Such performance places Landa nanographic printing presses squarely in the heart of mainstream commercial printing. For the first time, commercial printers don't have to choose between the versatility and short-run economics of digital printing and the low cost-per-page and high productivity of offset printing. Now they can have both.’
 
Benny Landa will personally host each of the company’s five daily theatre presentations in its 300-seat auditorium at the heart of Landa’s 1,400 sq m stand, the largest ever for a first time exhibitor at Drupa. The presentation, entitled “Nano: Bigger Than You Think”, will provide the audience with an inside tour of nanography, as well as insights into the future of the printing industry.