The FINANCIAL — HP today announced a speed upgrade for the HP Inkjet Web Press, a faster Color Print Module imprinting imager, and the availability of new prepress and finishing solutions for HP Indigo systems at the Graph Expo tradeshow in McCormick Place (HP booths 2610 and 3210).
HP today announced a speed upgrade for the HP Inkjet Web Press, a faster Color Print Module imprinting imager, and the availability of new prepress and finishing solutions for HP Indigo systems at the Graph Expo tradeshow in McCormick Place (HP booths 2610 and 3210).
The solutions and new features include:
- complete, high-end production lines, including the flagship HP Indigo 7500 Digital Press in streamlined, end-to-end operating environments with the newly available PageReady finishing system from Lasermax Roll Systems;
- a speed upgrade for the HP T200 Color Inkjet Web Press that doubles throughput on full-color jobs; and
- the new HP C500 Color Print Module and HP M500 Monochrome Print Modules, which enable high-speed variable-data imprinting on web offset, digital and mail printing lines at affordable prices.
“As the graphics market shifts from analog to digital printing, we are helping print service providers grow their businesses with new capabilities, enabling them to expand into new application areas and improve delivery times for high-volume digital printing,” said Jan Riecher, vice president and general manager, Graphics Solutions Business – Americas, HP. “HP is committed to creating solutions that help PSPs address their customers’ changing needs and provide tangible business results quickly.”
A decade of growth and innovation
At this year’s event, HP also is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the agreement to acquire Indigo N.V., which was announced at McCormick Place during the PRINT 01 tradeshow. Since becoming part of HP, the Indigo business has grown substantially, experiencing double-digital growth in page volume every quarter since 2003, including 23 percent growth year over year in the company’s most recent fiscal third quarter.
With more than 6,000 presses installed worldwide, including numerous installations at seven of North America’s top 10 printing firms, HP Indigo liquid electrophotographic printing technology continues to be a preferred digital printing platform for offset-quality production in high-impact marketing and many other uses.
End-to-end productivity
The Lasermax Roll Systems PageReady shown at Graph Expo is now available for sale worldwide. The in-line slitter/cutter/stacker solution uses fully automated job setup features to help customers go directly from file to finished product.
Lasermax Roll Systems is one of many HP Graphics Solutions Partner program members participating with HP at Graph Expo, including CP Bourg, Datatech Smartsoft, DirectSmile, Duplo, EMT, GMC, Lumapix, Magnum Digital Solutions, Mediaclip, MindFireInc, Pageflex, Pixfizz, PressWise, Prisme Technologies, PTI Marketing Technologies, Standard Finishing, Taopix and Ultimate Technographics.
Higher productivity for HP T200 Color Inkjet Web Press
The new, high-productivity color option for the HP T200 Color Inkjet Web Press is scheduled to be available early next year. The upgrade for the 20.5-inch-wide duplex press increases color printing speed up to 400 feet per minute at full black density and lower color density – twice the standard color operating speed for the T200 model.
The upgrade is available for both new and current T200 customers, allowing them to benefit from advances in inkjet technology while preserving their original capital investments. In conjunction with the speed upgrade, Pitney Bowes, which uses HP Inkjet Web Press technology in its IntelliJet™ Printing Systems family, also is announcing this higher speed color option for its IntelliJet™ 20 Printing System.
HP also announced that Appleton Coated has licensed ColorPRO technology, providing uncoated ColorPRO papers for use with HP Inkjet Web Presses. Appleton Coated’s Uncoated Inkjet with ColorPRO technology papers deliver high image quality on HP Inkjet Web Presses but do not require the use of the presses’ bonding agent.
HP Inkjet Web Press technologies continue to transform segments of the book publishing and production mail industries, offering the reliable, high-quality and high-volume manufacturing capability needed to drive adoption of digital printing. With more than 40 presses operating at customer sites worldwide, HP Inkjet Web Presses have produced more than 5 billion pages since the first commercial HP Inkjet Web Press installation in December 2008.
HP C500 Color and M500 Monochrome Print Modules
The HP C500 and M500 Print Modules complement the company’s current portfolio to help PSPs easily and effectively enhance preprinted content with variable-data imaging to increase response rates. The two new modules offer inline imprinting, delivering 600 dpi text and graphics at speeds up to 500 feet per minute. These inkjet modules use the latest HP Scalable Printing Technology, including auto-switching ink containers and an automatic service station for printheads.
The HP C500 Color Print Module is an improved version of the HP C400 module, offering customers a set of new features for process color web imprinting applications, including additional speed for improved productivity and new precision rail mounting attachments for easy repositioning of the print module across the web. The C500 also will be available with larger ink supplies for longer, continuous printing in high-speed, high-volume production environments.
Three firms exhibiting at Graph Expo are showing HP C400 Print Module-equipped solutions. Pitney Bowes (booth 2010) is showing the C400 in its Print+ Messenger™ Color Inkjet System. Kirk-Rudy (booth 4402) is showing the C400 as part of its KolorJet cut-sheet production line. In addition, Bell and Howell (booth 3611) is showing the C400 as part of an envelope wrapper solution from CMC.
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