HP brings inkjet web to show

Due to be launched commercially in the second half of next year the press was running at 122 metres a minute, with 600dpi resolution in four colours. No special media is required, and it will initially be targetted at the transpromo, direct mail, book and newspaper markets.HP believes that by the time the next drupa comes along it will be the biggest supplier in the print business, and with sales of US$3bn already, and its graphic arts division being the fastest growing part of the US$30bn imaging and printing group no-one is likely to be arguing with that assessment.

HP reckons there are about 50 trillion pages a year printed in colour, of which some 1.6 per cent are printed on HP equipment. Its logic is that there is a 98.4 per cent opportunity for growth.

Also central to its plan to ramp up its digital print business ius the new HP Indigo 7000, which is now producing 120 full colour pages per minute, and has a duty cycle of up to 3.5 million pages a month. HP says all printers producing at least a million pages a month will benefit from HP Indigo 7000. HP also enhanced its Indigo 5500 with online connectivity to a coater, thicker substrate support, up to 450 micron, and an additional feeding unit.

This drupa marked the launch of HP’s innovative Designjet L65500 printer, which comes with Latex inks. HP says the system will produce high quality durable inks – up top three years unlaminated – in print sizes up to 2.64m. Because the inks are water based there are no solvent ink issues.

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