Special Drupa Coverage — Manufacturers Press Ahead

Focusing much attention at Drupa on its name change and rebranding from MAN Roland to manroland, the press manufacturer debuted a new 20?, 13,000 sph contender: the Roland 50, which incorporates technology from its XXL press platform.

This includes double-size printing cylinders and transferters that allow printing on substrates ranging from 0.04-mil lightweight papers to 0.8-mil board stocks. Remote adjustment of substrate thickness is automatic, axial and radial register is via the plate cylinders, and--like with its XXL presses--diagonal register works via the transferter.