EFI and Landa partner for DFE
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EFI and Landa Corporation have entered into a partnership agreement for the development of a digital front end (DFE) as part of Landa's end-to-end Nanographic Printing process.
The Landa DFE will be built on EFI Fiery, and will stream jobs at full printing speed for four to eight color printing with Landa Nanographic Printing presses. Press operators will be able to perform last-minute job changes on the press, proof jobs and print rush jobs on-the-fly.
In addition, it will collect production feedback from the presses and support closed-loop color control and inspection.
The Landa DFE will support all job dynamics including static, variable data printing and EPID (Every Page Is Different) printing.
With the new DFE, Landa Nanographic Printing presses will integrate into a printer’s existing pre-press, production and business management workflows, and finishing operations. The Landa DFE will enable printing on any off-the-shelf B1 format (41in/1,050mm) substrate.
Landa said its DFE will use the EFI Fiery technology to offer ‘unique, new functionality’ for sheet-fed and web-fed Landa Nanographic Printing presses in the folding carton, flexible packaging, point-of-sale, commercial and publishing markets.
Landa has already signed an agreement with Komori for the supply of sheet-fed platforms for the new range of Landa Nanographic Printing presses.
The first Landa Nanographic Printing presses are scheduled to ship at the end of 2014, and will be folding carton variants of its S10 model.
The EFI/Landa agreement brings together two ‘pioneering businesses in the digital printing industry with the vision to fundamentally change how mainstream applications are produced’.
EFI CEO Guy Gecht and Landa chairman and CEO Benny Landa announced the partnership during the opening session of EFI Connect 2014.
Gecht said: ‘Benny Landa is a legend in our industry, and we are excited to work with his company as its exclusive DFE technology provider. Landa Nanographic Printing presses have potential to accelerate the migration of mainstream commercial printing and packaging to digital printing.
‘The Landa DFE provides a proven, ultra-high-speed and well-integrated front-end platform that Landa customers will require.’
Benny Landa added: ‘Our unique Nanographic Printing process enables us to offer offset-quality digital printing and a combination of format size and throughput speeds unprecedented in the graphic arts industry.
‘Reaching this remarkable and exciting goal requires partnering with best-in-class providers. That is the reason we chose Fiery technology and EFI as our development partner - to deliver the highest quality ultra-high-speed front-end platform to match the quality and performance of our Nanographic Printing presses.’
Source: Packprint World
