Landa Corporation has announced strategic partnerships with both manroland sheetfed GmbH and Komori, whereby Landa will provide its Nanographic Printing technology to the offset manufacturers.
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 is 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.’
Yoshiharu Komori, Komori president, chairman and CEO, said: ‘We see growing demand for variable data printing and personalisation, especially for niche applications, which we are addressing with our already announced DigitalOnDemand solutions. However, there is also ever growing customer demand for shorter and shorter run lengths as well as very short turnaround times. To meet these commercial printing market needs, we have embraced Landa Nanographic Printing as a powerful solution for our next generation sheetfed and web fed digital systems that use water based inks.
Benny Landa, Landa founder, chairman and CEO, added: ‘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.’
