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As a future technology demonstration, a Roland 700 printing unit was shown with the Roland DirectDrive direct plate cylinder drive, which may some day make possible simultaneous plate changes and washup processes.

Also of high interest was the new Roland InlineFoiler Prindor cold foil laminating system equipped on a Roland 700 at the show. The system requires two printing units. In the first unit, the areas of the substrate where foil is to be applied are printed with a special glue by a conventional plate, and foil is then laminated to these areas in the second printing unit.