We are now entering the pre-drupa announcement season. This is the few months prior to drupa when vendors tell us a little, but often not a lot, about what they are showing at drupa in May. We have forthcoming events in Munich, Düsseldorf, Lisbon and Tel Aviv, and I’m sure there are others I have not been invited to. I often find these events are unsatisfactory as the vendors only tell us a little of what they are planning to show as often they have not finalised their plans of which products to show. Other vendors keep quiet about what they will show until the event, possibly hinting a little via a press release to wet ones appetite. This article is about three of these. Other articles will follow after I attend some of the events listed above. 

The three companies and their products I will cover here are ones that I feel may be major highlights of drupa, and will certainly be key ones that should be high on the list of companies and products to look at.

The first of these is one of the historical stars of drupa, however this time wearing another hat. This is Benny Landa; well know as the founder of Indigo (Now HP Indigo), and one of the innovators involved in starting the digital colour printing industry. Since Benny sold Indigo to HP he has set up the Landa Corporation. One area this is involved in is in venture funding, and it has interests in a number of very interesting Israeli high-tech start up organisations. Perhaps the most interesting part of the Landa Corporation is Landa Labs, a very specialised research facility working on many forms of nano particle technology and its application. From this has come Landa Digital Printing, and its line up of digital nanographic printing presses will be unveiled at drupa.