large format printing : New solutions from HP
HP presented its range of digital printing solutions, including the latest offerings from recently acquired Scitex Vision.
HP’s presence at the show was aimed to demonstrate how its digital printing solutions help screen printers evolve their businesses, embracing exciting new opportunities for variable data printing, cost-effective shorter runs and greater scope for customer creativity. This portfolio is HP’s most comprehensive ever, spanning the large-format, speciality and wide- to superwide-format markets.
Live applications from HP Indigo’s speciality printing solutions and the ever-increasing range of HP Designjet large-format printers were demonstrated.
HP has also supported the launch of FESPA’s Digital Print Awards. The awards will showcase digital print achievements and promote opportunities in both commercial and industrial sectors, from the sign industry to flexible packaging and textiles. It is an open-entry competition with no restriction on printer, substrate or ink used by print service providers who are being called upon to participate. Entries will be sought throughout 2006 while the results, involving a high-level independent jury, will be announced in the Spring of 2007.
HP’s Indigo Division demonstrated the HP Indigo press s2000, a speciality 6-colour press designed to print on a wide range of substrates up to 600 microns thick. The HP Indigo press s2000 uses standard artwork file formats to produce static and variable printing, enabling the production of personalised products including plastic cards, mouse mats, fridge magnets, and industrial products that have previously been screen printed, such as membrane switches. In addition to personalisation, the variable data capability can be used for numbering and bar code printing, and is able to incorporate security features such as micro-text and invisible (UV) ink.
The HP Indigo 3-D Application for lenticular printing was also demonstrated, along with the digital cutting system from i-cut, providing an end-to-end solution for cost-effective specialty printing and finishing:
• The HP Indigo 3-D Lenticular Application is designed for industry specialty converters, commercial printers and digital service providers who want to produce short runs of specialty applications such as panoramic 3-D printing, layered 3-D, flip, morph and zoom on HP Indigo press s2000 presses.
• i-cut is a software solution that drives a flatbed cutter to finish printed products. It has a camera that finds guide marks and then orients the cutter to cut accurately. It can be completely customised to meet the requirements of any industry-related application such as blade-cutting, laser-cutting or creasing.
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HP’s presence at the show was aimed to demonstrate how its digital printing solutions help screen printers evolve their businesses, embracing exciting new opportunities for variable data printing, cost-effective shorter runs and greater scope for customer creativity. This portfolio is HP’s most comprehensive ever, spanning the large-format, speciality and wide- to superwide-format markets.
Live applications from HP Indigo’s speciality printing solutions and the ever-increasing range of HP Designjet large-format printers were demonstrated.
HP has also supported the launch of FESPA’s Digital Print Awards. The awards will showcase digital print achievements and promote opportunities in both commercial and industrial sectors, from the sign industry to flexible packaging and textiles. It is an open-entry competition with no restriction on printer, substrate or ink used by print service providers who are being called upon to participate. Entries will be sought throughout 2006 while the results, involving a high-level independent jury, will be announced in the Spring of 2007.
HP’s Indigo Division demonstrated the HP Indigo press s2000, a speciality 6-colour press designed to print on a wide range of substrates up to 600 microns thick. The HP Indigo press s2000 uses standard artwork file formats to produce static and variable printing, enabling the production of personalised products including plastic cards, mouse mats, fridge magnets, and industrial products that have previously been screen printed, such as membrane switches. In addition to personalisation, the variable data capability can be used for numbering and bar code printing, and is able to incorporate security features such as micro-text and invisible (UV) ink.
The HP Indigo 3-D Application for lenticular printing was also demonstrated, along with the digital cutting system from i-cut, providing an end-to-end solution for cost-effective specialty printing and finishing:
• The HP Indigo 3-D Lenticular Application is designed for industry specialty converters, commercial printers and digital service providers who want to produce short runs of specialty applications such as panoramic 3-D printing, layered 3-D, flip, morph and zoom on HP Indigo press s2000 presses.
• i-cut is a software solution that drives a flatbed cutter to finish printed products. It has a camera that finds guide marks and then orients the cutter to cut accurately. It can be completely customised to meet the requirements of any industry-related application such as blade-cutting, laser-cutting or creasing.
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