[dropcaps style=’2′]HP expanded its labels and packaging portfolio with solutions to drive the printing and converting toward more flexible, productive and profitable digital printing of any application. New solutions include the HP Indigo 6900 digital press for labels and packaging and HP PageWide C500 press for mainstream corrugated production.[/dropcaps]
“The expansion follows the largest packaging deal ever for HP Indigo with ePac. Our customers are growing fast across all segments and are experiencing massive success. They are leveraging HP technology to innovate and deliver on brands’ evolving needs,” said Santi Morera, global head of Graphics Solutions Business, HP. “These new technologies we are launching are needed now more than ever and will allow our customers to be more productive.”
Innovations increasing digital production profit
The new HP Indigo 6900 digital press increases the addressable label market while offering higher revenue per meter, including, Pack Ready for labels for the production of high-resistance labels for food, household, chemical, and pharma labels. Four beta sites are producing commercial jobs; new HP Indigo ElectroInk Silver, now commercially available, delivers metallic effects across a wide color gamut, similar to Pantone 877; and HP Indigo ElectroInk Invisible Blue and Yellow visible under UV light for brand protection and promotional labels; integration with the HP Indigo GEM embellishment unit, the first fully digital, one-pass label printing and embellishment solution for spot, tactile, foil, holograms, mini textures and lamination.
Additionally, the high-performance HP Production Pro for Indigo Labels and Packaging is now included in the HP Indigo 6900 and rolling out this year to HP Indigo’s entire labels and packaging portfolio. Featuring five times faster RIP power and the Esko Color Engine, the powerful digital frontend provides extensive productivity and scalability for continuous digital production, to allow converters to scale and manage their digital production across multiple presses and multiple sites, increase the number of jobs per day, and shorten delivery cycles.
Pack Ready Laminator commercially available
For the HP Indigo 20000 flexible packaging press, the HP Indigo Pack Ready Laminator is now commercially available. A pioneering technology, Pack Ready Lamination allows for immediate time-to-market of HP Indigo digitally printed flexible packaging by eliminating the use of adhesives. The Pack Ready Laminator is manufactured and supplied by Karlville.
Extended capabilities for the HP Indigo 30000
The HP Indigo 30000 digital press offers converters an opportunity to build new profitable businesses that leverage cost-effective short runs and added value long-run production. The new capabilities and improved performance include: increased productivity to enable dozens of folding carton jobs per day and up to 1 million B2 sheets per month; the widest folding carton application span on one press, leveraging wide media range from paperboards to metalized, synthetic, and transparent media, new security features like micro-text and micro QR-codes, and new automatic mass customization and personalization capabilities; and the Tresu iCoat 30000, sold and serviced by HP Indigo, for one robust folding carton production line.
