With drupa 2024 upon us, it is appropriate that we talk about Landa Digital Print. After selling Indigo to HP, Benny Landa introduced this new company and Nanography at drupa 2012. That Landa Nanoprint introduction was impressive in its presentation and its promise of some interesting things to come. At the introduction, we saw cutsheet and webfed presses. Of the six presses initially shown, three of them were sheetfed, including a B2, B3, and B1. They were promised to be “the fastest” sheetfed inkjet presses available, with print at speeds up to 11,000 or 12,000 sheets per hour on the B3 and B2, respectively, and initially at 6,500 sheets per hour on the B1. Additionally, they showed three web presses. 

Of the presses that were shown, the 6500 sph simplex sheetfed B1 format S10 and the perfecting S10P make up the currently installed base of over 50 presses worldwide, and are indeed unique presses, targeting the drawbacks of production inkjet by using an “offset” inkjet imaging technology and a solid Komori transport. They were also developed to introduce a degree of machine learning automation and an operator UI that provided a blueprint for a lot of what we are seeing in many of the digital and even ‘digitalized’ analog presses currently being introduced today.

The Landa Digital Print tagline for drupa 2024 is “Run More,” and they are supporting that with the introduction of new “faster and smarter” presses. They will be introducing the S11 simplex B1 press, supporting a maximum sheet size of 29.5 x 41.3 in., and a maximum print area of 28.7 x 40.6 in. The press supports a wide range of media thickness from 2.4 point to 32 point (60–800 grams). Unlike majority of inkjet presses, the Landa technology advantage is that it can run a wide variety of media, including paper, plastics, etc. The new Landa S11 and S11P models include a new ink drying system that enables transfer of dry ink from the blanket to the media, at the higher speed of 11,200 sph.