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At Last, Nano Is Now as Landa Nanographic Printing Presses Line up for Market Entry

The wait has been long, and the anticipation has been intense. But, Landa Digital Printing believes it can amply reward both with what it will debut at drupa 2016.

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Benny Landa, chairman of the Landa Group, with a sample from a Landa Nanographic Printing press. 

Probably the most meaningful thing to report about Landa Nanographic Printing® presses is that if you want one, you can place an order for it right now. It’s a real product on the brink of commercialization, and the company that makes it is staking everything—including its credibility—on the launch of four models at drupa 2016.

“I can’t blame anyone for being cynical,” Benny Landa told a deputation of journalists who visited the headquarters of Landa Digital Printing in Rehovot, Israel, on March 23. That group, like many others who witnessed the company’s first attempt to introduce the technology at drupa 2012, remembered the static-display-only equipment, the closely curated handful of flawed printed samples, and the promise of market entry that never came true. 


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About Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry is a journalist and an educator who has covered the graphic communications industry since 1984. The author of many hundreds of articles on business trends and technological developments in graphic communications, he has been published in most of the leading trade media in the field. He also has taught graphic communications as an adjunct lecturer for New York University and New York City College of Technology. The holder of numerous awards for industry service and education, Henry is currently the managing director of Liberty or Death Communications, a content consultancy.

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