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Benny Landa has done it again at drupa 2016. Emerging from a cloud of smoke from a space time capsule; beaming from one side of the stage to the other like Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise, he treated guests to a show worthy of a Hollywood production.

Benny Landa wist dat hij na bijna vier jaar stilte rondom zijn nanografische persen met iets goeds moest komen. En dat deed hij: hij kondigde nieuwe samenwerkingsverbanden aan, drie betaplaatsingen voor zeer uiteenlopende toepassingen en een nieuwe pers.

Landa opened drupa 2016 with a flurry of announcements that demonstrate the transition of the company and its Nanography technology from a proof-of-concept, unveiled at drupa 2012, to a robust line of Nanographic Printing presses that address all major print segments.

The Nano Metallography area at the Landa booth looks amazing! Benny Landa made "a James Bond" entry at the press conference. Landa has announced a perfecting version of its 1m-wide web press at Drupa – with more announcements expected to follow on 31 May.

Landa Digital Printing has named the first beta users of its Nanographic presses, announced the sale of 20 machines to Cimpress and a new partnership with QuadGraphics. The latter is to develop machines suitable for short run magazines and journals and has already resulted in a new product to its line up.

Landa opened Drupa 2016with a flurry of announcements that demonstrate the transition of the company and its Nanography^® technology from a proof-of-concept, unveiled at Drupa 2012, to a robust line of Nanographic Printing^® presses that address all major print segments.

“…if digital printing is to move into the mainstream, it will have to prove that it is fully competitive with offset lithography in quality, speed, printable format size, and cost to print. According to [Yishai] Amir, just one process—the one he is responsible for bringing to market—can demonstrate all of these capabilities.”

Benny Landa drives fast. I think he is in a hurry to reach the future. We had been on a whirlwind visit to the several Landa facilities in Tel Aviv, Israel and we were heading to a secret lab buried in the bowels of a non-descript industrial building.

In Hall 9, Landa Group has doubled the size of its drupa stand to 3,000 square meters and will unveil a trio of new presses in Dusseldorf: The S10P is a 13,000-sheet-per-hour, 41-inch (B1 format) digital perfecting press for commercial print applications; the S10 sheetfed press is designed for folding carton and point-of-purchase (POP) work; and the W10 is a 656-fpm web-fed nanographic press (also 41-inch) for flexible packaging. The W10 prints up to eight colors on plastic packaging films, paper, carton board, and aluminum foil.

The overarching message we’re seeing is that Landa Group’s new machines can deliver the nirvana of digital printing—digital presses sporting offset quality printing on any paper stock at speeds that rival offset presses. This has never been attained, but now could actually be.