EFI and Landa Corp have entered into a partnership to develop a digital front end (DFE) as part of Landa's end-to-end Nanographic Printing solution. EFI's high performance Fiery technology will provide Landa's DFE with new functionality for its sheetfed and webfed Nanographic Printing Presses in the commercial, folding carton, point-of-sale, publishing, and flexible packaging markets.
The new DFE will stream jobs at full printing speed for 4-8 colour printing with the Nanographic presses, and enable press operators to perform last-minute job changes on the press, to proof jobs and to print rush jobs on-the-fly. It will also collect production feedback from the presses and support closed-loop colour control and inspection. All job dynamics will be supported, including static, VDP (Variable Data Printing) and EPID (Every Page Is Different) printing.
EFI CEO Guy Gecht says: "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."
Landa says its customers can use the new DFE to create an end-to-end solution that "naturally fits into their printing operation", whether full offset, all-digital or hybrid offset/digital.
