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Nanographic Press to Connecticut Converter

Keystone Paper & Box Company, celebrating its 75th year as one of New England’s most innovative, award-winning folding carton producers, is the latest to purchase a Landa S10 Nanographic Printing Press.

Examples of packages to be printed by Keystone on the new S10 press.
Examples of packages to be printed by Keystone on the new S10 press.

According to 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, which is the company’s first digital press.

“Over half of our jobs are in that run-length sweet spot that Landa handles so well,” Rutt says. 

Keystone’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, freeing significant offset press time. In addition, reduction in paper waste and elimination of thousands of aluminum printing plates per year will result in considerable cost savings while bringing sustainability benefits, too. 

 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 says, “we found a B1 press that we came to realize was designed from the start with folding carton applications, among others, in mind.” Conversely, Papa says that “other digital presses are too small or too slow, the caliper ranges aren’t high enough, they can’t achieve the color range Keystone needs, and the quality – especially for complex artwork – is suspect.” The bottom line, Papa says, is that the Landa S10 is the only digital press to meet Keystone’s requirements.

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