Komori digital presses for commercial and packaging markets to employ Landa Nanographic Printing technology

In keeping with Komori’s new policy of operating as a ‘print engineering service provider’ to meet various future-oriented demands from customers, the Tokyo-based company in Japan has joined hands with Landa Corporation of Rehovot, Israel in a global strategic partnership where Landa will license Komori Corporation to manufacture and market digital printing presses for commercial and other printing markets using Landa’s Nanographic Printing process.”

28 Apr 2012 | By PrintWeek India

Komori had recently announced its Digital On Demand solutions, which is already addressing the growing demand for variable data printing and personalisation.

Communicating the latest development, Sangam Khanna, director (Komori division) at New Delhi-based Insight Communications and one of the two distributers of Komori in India, said: “We are pleased to announce the latest development. There is an ever-growing customer demand for shorter and shorter run lengths as well as very short turnaround times. To meet these commercial printing market needs, Komori has embraced Landa nanographic printing as a powerful solution for our next generation sheetfed and webfed digital systems that use water-based inks.”

Printools Corporation in Bengaluru is the other Komori distributer for South India.

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.

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