Christopher Morgan, senior vice president, Graphics Solutions Business, HP, says, “With more than 25 installations worldwide, our inkjet web press systems are changing the business dynamics of applications such as publishing, transpromo and direct mail. With the significant throughput capacity the new HP T400 offers, customers can now break into a world of true mass personalisation and customisation and take advantage of substantial new growth opportunities.”
Presently installing its first T300 inkjet web press in Asia at book exporter CTPS’ plant in Dongguan, China, HP says it has continued to gain momentum in publishing, direct mail and transactional and transpromotional markets, claiming more than 1.46 billion pages produced on HP Inkjet Web Presses in 2010.
It says that the T400 will print at 183metres per minute at a web width of 42inches, adding that the machine prints up to 5200 full-colour, letter-size pages per minute. The company introduced several additional solutions, including an HP magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) system and third-party coated media, as well as workflow and finishing solutions from members of the HP Graphic Solutions Partner programme. The T400 also features new HP A50 process-colour inks work and new HP A10 print head in a 1200-nozzles-per-inch print head design. New web tension controls and dryer systems provide reliable, fast and consistent productivity, according to HP.
The company adds that users of standard-size (20.5-inch) digital web press finishing equipment can produce two jobs simultaneously on the HP T400, using an optional slitter at the end of the press to convert the roll into side-by-side webs. Scalable job impositioning tools for high-level prepress efficiency from Ultimate Technographics – a member of the HP Graphics Solutions Partner program – allow operators to impose separate variable-data jobs side by side on the web.
Jim Hamilton, group director of industry analyst firm InfoTrends. “HP’s T400 is a powerful addition to the Inkjet Web Press family and extends it into unheard of ranges of digital print productivity. These are revolutionary devices that compel marketers and content providers to re-imagine what can be accomplished with production digital print.”
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