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Komori Impremia NS40

A B1 digital press with the attributes of Nanography, says Simon Eccles

ble to use a very wide range of paper and
plastic substrates in weights from 0.06 to
0.8mm, including standard litho stocks,
or uncoated and quite rough grades.
NanoInk uses minute 10-nanometre pig-
ment particles, said to give extremely
good colour saturation and gamut. “With
seven colours you can get a Pantone
range of 96% and with four colours it is
84%,” says Holscher.
The NS40 chassis, substrate transport
and control systems are adapted from
Komori’s Lithrone B1 litho press technol-
ogy. The digital front-end and closed-
loop colour management are adapted
from Komori’s B2 Impremia IS29 UV
inkjet press (developed with Konica
What does it do? POS work on board and paper, and sam- Minolta which calls it AccurioJet KM-1).
The Impremia NS40 is a new B1-format ples will be shown at Drupa. The NS40 will integrate into Komori’s
digital sheetfed press that licenses “We did not bring it to market in 2018 for KP-Connect pressroom network.
Landa’s Nanography process. field tests like Landa did with their S10,
Specifications What’s the USP?
Robert Holscher, sales director digital & we spent another year on developing and It’s a B1 digital press with the attributes of
finishing equipment at Komori Print engine improving certain items that we felt
International Europe, emphasises com- Nanography offset needed it,” says Holscher. “A lot of our Nanography – good print quality, bright
colours, respectable speed and predicted
pletely separate development to Landa’s inkjet and transfer target customer base has Komori offset low costs per copy – plus Komori’s develop-
belt
own B1 S10 press: “I compare it to machines and would like the flexibility of ments for reliability and cross-compatibil-
Formula One racing teams, where every- Printheads Fujifilm interchanging jobs to transfer them to
one may have the same engine, but one Samba greyscale the NS40. That means that print quality ity with its litho presses.
will drive faster because they have fine- piezo, single-pass has to be up to par with what is coming How easy is it to implement and
tuned the chassis, the suspension and off the Lithrone presses.” use?
everything else.” Resolution How does it work?
1,200x1,200dpi For operators, NS40 has a lot in common
When was it announced and what Impremia NS40 uses a licensed with Lithrone litho presses and IS29 digital
are the target markets? Ink Landa NanoInk Nanography print engine with Landa- presses, says Holscher. “You don’t need to
Komori partnered with Landa and made aqueous pigment supplied NanoInk. This is an offset pro- put in plates and the RIP takes care of col-
components for Landa’s Drupa 2012 Max sheet size cess, with piezo inkjets building up the our management. The operator just has to
show presses as well as starting its own 750x1,050mm full-colour image on a silicon rubber find the right job, put in the paper and
licensed development. An early NS40 blanket on a heated transfer belt. This print.”
was demonstrated at Drupa 2016. The Max speed evaporates water from the ink to leave a
sticky resin-pigment layer that is then What training and service support is
commercial launch was at Drupa 2020 in 6,500sph transferred completely to the substrate. offered?
June. Initially the NS40 will have a sim-
plex configuration for the packaging mar- As the belt returns through its loop it Komori’s country offices will take care of
ket. The inline coater will run aqueous or passes through a cleaning unit that most support, with access to specialists in
UV fluid. An optional double delivery for removes paper dust and applies a “soapy the European HQ in Utrecht when needed,
water” that equalises the temperature
pharmaceutical work will automatically and acts as a wetting solution to stop says Holscher. “We already have some
detect and divert rejected sheets. A com- aqueous ink from beading on the hydro- experience with the IS29 and have built up
mercial beta test site at Shinwa phobic surface on the next ink applica- our service organisation for digital. Komori
Manufacturing Co in Kawagoe City, tion. supports the Landa S10 installations in
close to Tokyo, was announced late last Europe, as they ask our team to help them
year. This has mainly been using it for This dry transfer process makes it possi- out.”
“Impremia NS40 uses a licensed Nanography print engine with Landa-supplied NanoInk.”

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