Digital Printing-Liquid Toner

Landa has announced major upgrades to its Landa S10FC and S10C Nanographic Printing presses, that include a new Landa Operator Cockpit, new ink ejectors, and an advanced paper handling system.

A young designer I spoke to the other day was very frank about the fact that she did not like digital printing because you could only print on white paper. Granted there are some print providers that prefer to print on white coated stock all day long (digital or offset, it does not matter to them). And these few give our whole industry a bad reputation.

HP is developing new solutions designed to help print service providers maximize their return on investment in production inkjet equipment. New workflow and color management solutions include HP SmartStream Composer and HP SmartStream Web Press Color Studio.

It was love at first sight for Russell Marcum, director of commercial printing firm Texoma Print Services in Durant, TX. At least, that is how he felt after seeing a five-color, 29˝ Presstek 75DI digital offset press in action at the Presstek demo center. Last June, the press was installed in Texoma's 10,000-square-foot facility, which the company moved into earlier this year.

More than 2,000 enthusiastic HP users packed the auditorium at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville, TN last month for the opening of the eighth annual Dscoop conference. The three-day meeting included scores of educational sessions geared toward HP users, as well as an exhibit area with nearly 100 partners showing equipment and software designed to work with HP equipment.

As a Landa technology fan, Cheryl Kahanec, executive vice president of EarthDigital, was impressed and excited when she was approached by two of Landa's executives in late 2011. EarthColor signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to purchase an unspecified number of Landa Nanographic Printing presses.

Nosco, a full-service packaging solutions provider based in Gurnee, IL, plans to use the the HP Indigo 30000 digital press to extend digital printing to larger quantities of folding cartons and to produce customized cartons using variable data for serialization, personalization and brand protection.

Installation of the first HP Indigo 10000 beta systems has now been completed at U.S.-based Sandy Alexander, Israel-based Old City Press, and U.K.-based Precision Printing. The color-proofing bundled solution for the HP Inkjet Web Press family allows print service providers to check color quality offline.

Recognizing that digital printing has become a mainstream technology, offset printers are increasingly adding digital capabilities to their repertoire of offerings. In some shops, short-run jobs are run entirely on digital presses. Some do short-runs on a digital device and a longer runs of the same job on a offset machine. Others combine variable content digital pages with those from an offset press in the same job.

In each case, colors have to match and the overall look and feel of the document must meet customers' requirements with minimal differences. This webinar will discuss how printers are successfully using the best features of both technologies AND managing color across offset and digital presses.
 
Our expert panelists will share their experiences on such key issues as:

• Ensuring jobs run on different devices look the same
• Managing paper selections
• Setting customer expectations
• Color management tools and profiles used for success
• Managing color for logos and other branding requirements

Characterizing drupa 2012 as another inkjet show is too limiting to capture the broader digital printing focus of the developments announced. Nanographic Printing, liquid-toner presses and hybrid offset-inkjet configurations where every bit as prominent, and the B2 format dominated the product introductions.