Waterless Offset Printing in Future Newspaper Applications

Within the recent years the development of printing machines for waterless offset printing has focused on new inking and printing units. The machines designed target technical and economical issues as well. New designs take into consideration the stability of all relevant surface temperatures, thus leading to a more stable and predictable process. In addition with other newly developed subsystems the waterless newspaper project will offer the possibility to push the printing process even further towards an industrial process. The general concept will be discussed and first results will be presented.