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Nanography™ at the 2016 Drupa international trade show

Drupa is the largest printing equipment trade show and exhibition in the world (Wikipedia essay) and the 2016 edition is being held from May 31 – June 10, 2016 in Dusseldorf, Germany. As he did in 2012 (see my May 18, 2012 post), Benny Landa (a legendary figure in the printing equipment industry) is presenting nanotechnology-enabled printing presses. I gather 2012 featured a ‘concept’ presentation, which included the introduction of a new ink (NanoInk™) and this 2016 presentation will feature a working press. A May 6, 2016 article by Naomi Webb for Tech Guru Daily describes Landa’s position in the industry and his new presses (Note: The writer does not seem very familiar with nanotechnology),

One thing is certain about the upcoming Drupa show in Dusseldorf: you can expect a high level of excitement around Landa. The firm is the brainchild of Benny Landa – the ‘father of digital printing’ and a man described as the print industry’s Steve Jobs by Print Week. …

As Landa himself told Print Week: “The crucial difference is that all processes where wet ink contacts paper suffer from the same problems. Water wicks along the paper fibres and it’s very, very difficult to dry it with so much water in the paper. Therefore, inkjet is limited. It’s either high-speed or high area coverage, but not both.

“The fact that there is no ink-paper interaction is the fundamental difference with Nanography [printing concept/technology]. No matter what you transfer to you get an identical image.” …

It [Landa Company] will put on five 30-minute theatre presentations a day and arcade to showcase its inventions, with demonstrations to run on the S10, S10P and W10 Nanographic Printing Presses. On top of that, the Landa L50 Nano-Metallography Module will be used to print metallized labels on a conventional narrow web press.

I wonder if these new products are open systems. Landa’s last company featured equipment (Indigo) with a proprietary or closed system (meaning that if a printer had one piece of Indigo equipment, every other connecting piece also had to be an Indigo product).