drupa news: We are print, says manroland

manroland makes its mark on drupa with a new company logo and motto encompassing al 4000 square metres of its floor area: We are print.

CEO Gerd Finkbeiner (pictured) believes that the new manroland AG has a significant part to play in the international printing industry. "As the world's number one in web offset and number two in sheetfed offset, manroland is a driving force and inspirational part-ner to the printing industry," he said.

"This strength is reflected in our new corporate appearance which, among other things, signifies our separation from the MAN Group and shows we are an independent company totally customer-oriented with a high level of competence in providing systems and services."

Thomas Hauser, executive vice president corporate marketing and communications, has high hopes that the makeover will attract visitors to manroland's stand.

"Under the motto We Are Print, it will be our great pleasure to welcome customers and all members of the printing community to the world of the new manroland at drupa," he said.

Taking a walk in the sheetfed park
The Sheetfed Park is to exhibit presses in all format classes and all of them printing alcohol-free. The Plus formats for the ROLAND 500, ROLAND 700 HiPrint and ROLAND 900, XXL permit more multiple-up images on a sheet.

Added value in sheetfed
drupa will also see the world premiere of the ROLAND 50, featuring XXL technology in the 36/52 format. With transferter technology and substrate flexibility, the ROLAND 50 sets new standards. Equipped with a 900 millimeters high-pile de-livery, the ROLAND 200 now has more efficient logistics and the ROLAND Inline-Coater smart increases product value. The same applies to the ROLAND Inline-Foiler Prindor, a cold foil transfer module which enhances the position of the RO-LAND 500 as a highly flexible production instrument. The multiple award-winning and make-ready time world champion ROLAND 700 DirectDrive has caused a sensation everywhere and can be seen at drupa in a ten-colour perfecting configuration. drupa will also see the official sales release of the format XXL ROLAND 900 with a perfecting system.

Sailing through the VAP tunnel
The VAP Tunnel makes the Value Added Printing strategy an emotional, multisen-sory experience. Technological components for increasing efficiency and product value are to be clearly explained with the aid of selected exhibits, and user benefits will be illustrated by practical examples.

Some more park life ...
The Webfed Park - Newspaper
In the Webfed Park manroland shows landmark developments in production effi-ciency. The automatic APL(r) plate changing system on the COLORMAN is bound to be a sensation because it is the first plate changing system in the printing indus-try to use robot technology. A hot topic in the newspaper segment is hybrid printing such as heatset-coldset combinations. As an alternative manroland will be showing an Innocure UV dryer on the COLORMAN. Further drupa themes are to be inte-grated inkjet printing applications during newspaper production and web width variability.

The Webfed Park - Commercial
A commercial web press exhibit will be a LITHOMAN with APL(r). Shortly after the successful launch of the 80-page LITHOMAN, manroland is already taking the next step. The concept is a 96-page LITHOMAN, and the printing unit with a 2,860 mil-limeters web width is bound to be a showstopper. At ROTOMAN printing units visi-tors can see for themselves how efficiently they produce and this will in future be even further improved with DynaChange for plate changing at full press speed. The new CutCon plus mechatronic system drastically reduces waste rates. Also new is the PFI-5 folder that uses multiple drive technology which provides significant cost advantages in high-volume printing. Moreover, the EUROMAN is sure to attract a lot of attention after its brilliant start worldwide.

manroland is located in Hall 6, Stand D28.