Landa's 1m-wide web press announcement

The Landa W10P press prints on virtually any coated or uncoated paper stock, ranging in weight from 30 gsm to cardstock. Since Nanographic Printing creates zero strike through, the press produces magazine-quality printing even on the lightest - and cheapest - uncoated papers. Running at 200 meters/minute, it can print over two million magazine pages per eight-hour shift.

 

Landa Digital Printing chairman and founder Benny Landa, said: "There are 35,000 magazine titles in the US alone, mostly subscription titles with run lengths of around 5,000. So it's a very interesting market."

 

The W10P is in essence two W10 units, with between four and eight colours in each, linked by turn bars inbetween.

 

While the new perfecting web press was unveiled at Drupa, the machine, which Landa said would begin shipping in late 2017, is not on display in Dusseldorf.

 

However, the firm is showing the W10P's simplex sibling, the W10, producing flexible packaging applications. Other machines running live on the stand include a pair of sheetfed simplex S10s, producing folding carton and POS products, and an S10P perfector.

 

With regard to what will be the biggest draw on the stand, Landa said: "Digital printing 13,000sph has got to be number one or two on the list, with web printing, but they're all so new and so exciting. Some people will be driven insane by digital and some will go nuts for metallisation; there's something for everyone."

 

Landa is also showing live demonstrations of a Nano-Metallography unit on an Omet label press, producing inline foiling at full press speed.

"We're showing this on a label press here, but over time we will have them for sheetfed, web, gravure and digital presses," said Landa.

 

Landa is hosting theater presentations five times a day for the duration of the Drupa exhibition. Landa is located in Hall 9 / A73-1. The Landa theatre presentation takes place daily at: 10:30, 12:00, 13:30, 15:00 and 16:30. Book your seat at a kiosk on the Landa stand.