Keystone Paper & Box Company’s calculations show that the company will enhance efficiencies across production by moving the large number of jobs that run inefficiently on offset to the Landa press, freeing significant offset press time. In addition, reduction in paper waste and elimination of thousands of aluminium printing plates per year will result in considerable cost and environmental savings.
This comes following the company’s announcement of its purchase of a Landa S10 Nanographic Printing Press. According to company president James Rutt, Keystone is aiming to move 50-60% of its high-end beverage, pharmaceutical, medical device and consumer packaging jobs to the Landa S10, the company’s first digital press. ‘Over half of our jobs are in that run-length sweet spot that Landa handles so well,’ Rutt said.
Rutt has been eyeing digital options for years, but he and Keystone’s vice president of operations, Bob Papa, were not satisfied with other solutions. ‘In Landa,’ Rutt said, ‘we found a B1 press that we came to realise was designed from the start with folding carton applications, among others, in mind.’
Conversely, Papa said that ‘other digital presses are too small or too slow, the caliper ranges aren’t high enough, they can’t achieve the colour range Keystone needs, and the quality – especially for complex artwork – is suspect.’ The bottom line, Papa said, is that the Landa S10 is the only digital press to meet Keystone’s requirements. ‘The results Landa has achieved with Nanography are nothing short of dramatic,’ said Rutt. ‘Keystone is very confident that the Landa press will meet our high-performance criteria.’
The ability to make changes at the console, the range of colour it can achieve, proofing on press and the S10’s speed are a few of the other standout features that impress Rutt, Papa, and their colleagues.
Rutt and Papa cite numerous examples that reveal the benefits Keystone will enjoy from the start. ‘If you only look at the extra ink we buy for our offset presses, it’s huge,’ Rutt said. ‘We don’t have to do that with the Landa. The ink costs are not a guess with Nanography – we will know exactly what we need.’
‘The marriage of Keystone Paper & Box and the Landa S10 press – a perfect fit – represents a major step forward for the folding carton market in the U.S., which like the rest of the world, is working to keep up with demand for shorter and often versioned runs,’ said Nachum Korman, Chief Commercial Officer, Landa Digital Printing. ‘Keystone recognised the power of our offering, and we have learned a lot from them during our exciting cooperation. We look forward to a long-lasting relationship.’
‘When you get a printer such as ourselves with the confidence to put more than half its jobs on a brand new press platform, that says a lot,’ said Rutt. ‘This is how a technology begins to go mainstream.’
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