Komori Corporation has reached an agreement with Shinwa Factory to conduct field testing of the 40-inch Sheetfed Nanographic Printing® System, Impremia NS40. Shinwa Factory is a Japanese manufacturing company with annual sales revenue of 3.2 billion yen that provides across-the-board services from designing of creative packaging, displays and sales promotion material to high volumes of printing, processing and delivery.
The Impremia NS40, which was a technical exhibit at drupa 2016 and is slated for a sales launch at drupa 2020, is a 40-inch Sheetfed Nanographic Printing System that uses Nanography® technology licensed from Landa. It has a printing speed of 6,500 sheets per hour, a true resolution of 1,200 dots per inch, can handle four to seven colors, with UV, LED or aqueous based in-line coating and Komori’s well-known quality. The press can handle paper sizes up to 750 x 1050 mm, a sheet thickness of 0.06 mm to 0.8 mm, and can print on a wide range of offset paper without any special pre-processing.
Representative director of Shinwa Factory, Yasunari Yamazaki, said, “I am extremely grateful that Komori chose us to conduct the field testing for the Impremia NS40. We had two specific requests and when Komori assured us that the press would meet these requirements, we decided to embrace the new Impremia NS40. One of our requests was the support for small lot production of packages. About 40% of jobs of the total volume of packages that we manufacture are 2,000 sheets or less, and there is a limit to one day’s production (in terms of setup and efficiency). We can expect that the production volume of the Impremia NS40, with a print speed of 6,500 sph and an extremely short changeover time, will far exceed our current offset printing capabilities.
“The other request was to reduce manual steps and fail costs during the production of signs and displays, which is our main business. Although proofing is currently used as standard, the colors often do not line up, which wastes a lot of time. With the Impremia NS40, there is almost no blurring of the proof and mass production colors, so we can confidently provide printed items that meet our customers’ expectations without manual checking.
