Digital Output Devices: A Digital Printing Redux
Not all the digital press buzz was on the show floor. Benny Landa, Indigo founder and CEO of startup Landa Corp. continued the speaking tour he began at drupa, evangelizing the benefits of his new digital printing approach: Nanography. By using pigment particles in the 50-70 nanometer range, Landa maintains that image quality, sharpness, color gamut and color fidelity can be improved far beyond that of any existing printing process—conventional or digital—while reducing costs and providing the workflow benefits of digital. So far, Heidelberg, Komori and manroland sheetfed have signed letters of intent to also integrate the technology into their product offerings.
John Parsons (john@intuideas.com), former Editorial Director of The Seybold Report, is an independent writer, ghostwriter, and editor. He is the co-author of the interactive printed textbook, Introduction to Graphic Communication, on the art, science and business of print, which has been adopted by Ryerson, Arizona State, the University of Houston, and many other schools and vocational training centers. Custom editions of the book are under consideration by major printing companies and franchises for internal training purposes.
