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Landa Nanographic Printing – A New Approach for Printing?

Andy Tribute reviews the nanography printing process and where Landa is with commercial availability of its Nanographic presses. How the claimed advantages of Nanographic presses compare to modern sheetfed offset and liquid toner technology and inkjet systems from Canon/Océ, Xeikon and Konica Minolta.

Friday, April 04, 2014

Without any doubt Benny Landa is one of the most innovative people within the printing industry. He is a brilliant scientist with an amazing record of technological development as can be seen by the raft of over 800 patents in his name. In addition to that he is also one of the greatest sales and showman the industry has seen. He is perhaps best known for bringing Indigo to the market and together with Xeikon launching digital production color printing. It is not correct to say that Benny Landa was the inventor of digital color printing as has been stated by many people and publications. Such printing was probably started by Canon in 1973 with the first electrostatic color copier. Benny Landa and Lucien De Schamphelaere of Xeikon produced the first production color digital presses. In fact Xeikon can claim to be the first as they announced their press one day before the Indigo E-Print 1000 press was announced. Both the Indigo and Xeikon presses were first seen at Ipex 1993.

Today Benny Landa is Chairman and CEO of Landa Corporation and best known for Landa Digital Printing. On the Landa Corporation web site the following outlines what Landa is developing:

Benny established the Landa Group to pursue his new vision of creating energy from thin air using nanotechnology. During the course of this research, he discovered that the use of nanopigments could revolutionize printing for a second time. Landa’s digital printing division, Landa Digital Printing, developed the Nanographic Printing™ process and a line of Nanographic Printing™ presses that enable the use of digital printing technology for mainstream applications. 


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