Countdown to Drupa: Landa lines up high-speed packaging printer

Is Benny Landa back? This time his company, Landa Digital Printing, will bring a line-up of Nanographic printing presses to Drupa 2016, which the company claims will be of offset quality, running at offset speed. The presses will include sheetfed presses running at 13,000 B1 sheets per hour as well as one meter-wide (41-inch) web presses printing on plastic packaging films.

28 Mar 2016 | By PrintWeek India

Besides Landa’s latest folding carton and flexible packaging printing, Landa metallised printing technology is expected to be among the highlights at Drupa 2016.

Benny Landa has stepped up his nano knowhow into foiling arena, with the company set to unveil Landa Nano-Metallography technology that promises zero waste, and which will halve the cost of metallised printing compared to foil transfer process.

Landa said the Nano-Metallography system can be integrated into conventional presses and will be shown on an Omet label press at Drupa.

Landa has also doubled the stand size to 3,000sq/m and will run live demonstrations of on two S10 B1 sheetfed straight printing presses, an S10P perfecting press, and a W10 1m-wide, 200m/min web press aimed at flexible packaging. The Nano-Metallography system will be shown on an Omet label press at Drupa, but Landa claimed that the system can also be integrated into conventional presses.


S10 Cockpit

Further, according to a report in PrintWeek, UK, the 400 customers wanting to get their hands on his Landa Nanographic digital presses announced during Drupa 2012 will have to wait until next year. Landa, the chairman of Landa Group, has admitted to have underestimated the enormity of the challenge, and even though his team is pushing the envelope in every single field it has touched, it has taken them longer than planned.


The W10 press

And though the beta installations of the firm’s S10B1 sheetfed press are now slated for early 2017, the speed has dropped to 6,500sph from the 8,000sph announced at Drupa, though a field upgrade to higher speed is expected a few months after installation.

At Drupa 2016, Landa will hold theatre presentation five times a day, all hosted by the man himself.

Landa’s nanotechnology will find challenges coming from Heidelberg’s new digital inkjet B1 sheetfed folding carton press, the Primefire 106 and a few more on inkjet presses on the Drupa floor.

Landa said, “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. This research has also spawned the new technology, Nano-Metallography, a quicker and simpler way of foiling.”

Landa concluded, “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 2016. Our presses will start shipping in early 2017.”

Drupa 2016 will take place from 31 May to 10 June 2016 at Dusseldorf, Germany. PrintWeek India is a cooperating media partner at the show. The team led by Noel D’cunha, Rushikesh Aravkar and Monica Rohra will be present on all days of the show.