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Will Parker of Reflex Labels is a determined man. In 2012 he made his way to the Landa stand on the opening day of Drupa to see what the fuss was all about. A Benny Landa devotee, like many others that day, he wanted to see what was bringing Benny back to printing and when he saw the Nanography^® process for the first time he knew he had join the party.

You could tell it was no ordinary day when we came down to breakfast in the Landa hotel on Thursday, June 2nd. The room was festooned with balloons, cards and banners. No, it wasn’t a display from the Landa Nanographic Printing^® Presses, but a celebration for Benny Landa’s big day – the day he turned 70.

Landa Digital Printing is pulling back the curtains on its impressive suite of presses at drupa 2016. The stand in Hall 9 will feature a new theatre presentation and working demonstrations of new Nanographic Printing^® presses that represent the most dramatic advancement in print technology in nearly 25 years.

Dear Johannes,
I am heading over to Germany at the end of this month – not to Mainz actually, but to Dusseldorf, where like the rest of the world of printing, I will spend two weeks at the Drupa 2016 show in the Messe Centre. I know that you can’t make it yourself…

Printers, imagine the waste using only half a tin of ink and throwing the rest away or using a third of a bottle of fount solution and pouring the rest into the recycling? No, neither can I. But that’s exactly what printers do when it comes to adding metallic foil to their printed images.

In the venerable Mother of all Parliaments in London, there has been a veritable furore about a decision by the upper house, to save some money on the way that the activities of both the House of Lords and the House of Commons are recorded.

Marketing is all about creating buzz, right? Well, if you’re a devoted fan of Honey Nut Cheerios^® in Canada, get ready for a reverse-buzz the next time you go cereal shopping. The brand’s iconic, illustrated bee mascot, “Buzz,” has disappeared from the package design for the first time ever – replaced with an all-white knockout image.

Nanotechnology is an astounding discovery, and its impact and uses are now being seen in practical ways around the world. Take Malaria for instance which is still a killer disease. Around 600,000 people a year around the world are still succumbing to it, and governments and philanthropists alike are pledging money to find ways to eradicate it. Now, a young scientist in Britain, George Frodsham has invented a new way of using nanoparticles to create a form of blood dialysis and to tackle the disease.