In February, Delphax Technologies announced that it would be introducing a new sheetfed inkjet production press at drupa 2012. Named elan and powered by Memjet, the company claimed it would be a game-changing entry to the market. We spoke with Dieter Schilling, president and chief executive officer of Delphax to get the details. You will also want to read David Zwang’s review of the product/technology, scheduled to appear on WhatTheyThink on April 6^th. You can also read the interview I did with Schilling last year that provides additional background on the company and its strategies.

WTT: Dieter, thanks for taking the time to speak with us. I understand from your release that you will be showing elan at drupa.

DS: Yes, we will, and we are very excited about that. The press will not be commercially available until 2013, about a year from now, so I do want to make it clear that what we are showing at drupa is an alpha version of the elan 500. It will have all of the engines, paper path, dryers, primer unit and paper input/output, but we may not have everything fully functioning by that time.