The manufacturer has lined up two US firms and companies in the UK, Switzerland and Israel. The five firms will begin the Indigo 20000 beta phase in September 2013, with the press due to go on sale in February or March of 2014.
The 72.2cm-wide width Indigo 20000 was recently announced by HP and extends the company’s offering into wider format presses. It boasts a printing speed of 45 linear metres-per-minute.
HP is also in the process of signing up five beta testers for its forthcoming Indigo 30000 Digital Press for folding carton production.
HP Australia sales manager Mark Daws told ProPrint that the 20000 and 30000 would “transform the packaging industry, allowing converters to profitably address the evolving needs of their customers with a competitive edge, much the same as digital has drastically altered the narrow web label industry.”
Meanwhile, HP used Labelexpo Americas, which ran from 11-13 September, to showcase its Indigo WS6600, a high-speed press for medium-run label and packaging printing, with its Enhanced Productivity Mode and optional inline priming (ILP) unit.
It demonstrated new features, including an additional primer for the press’s ILP Unit and a SecurePack System that extends the press’s range of applications.
Daws told ProPrint that HP had already started installing the WS6600 in Australia and New Zealand.
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This article originally appeared at printweek.com
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