Digital Presses 2020 – The Top Picks: HP Indigo

6900
The HP Indigo 6900 offers unique solutions allowing converters to produce any narrow-format label, flexible packaging, sleeve, IML, wrap-around labels or folding cartons job, with easy and quick changeovers. The press supports the widest range of media in digital production, including synthetic and paper substrates from 0.5 to 18-pt. It can print on either pre-optimised substrates or standard off-the-shelf materials using inline or offline priming solutions. Many eco-certified substrates as well as environmental-friendly primers, varnishes, and adhesives are supported. It offers extended colour gamut, including the ElectroInk silver, fluorescent pink, and invisible inks. It addresses high-performance applications with Pack Ready for labels, designed to improve the labels’ resistance against water, chemical and mechanical exposure, through cross-linking between the upper and lower layers of the label’s construction.

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12000
The 29-inches HP Indigo 12000 digital press produces the widest commercial application range with superior print quality, high productivity, and wide versatility. Built on the best-selling and proven HP Indigo 10000 digital press, the press is an easy fit for offset printers as it offers solutions for any commercial application on any substrate, including canvas wall art, high-impact posters, folders, oversized books, specialty products, and more. It comes with HP Indigo’s liquid ElectroInk technology, which has the widest digital colour gamut, reaching up to 97% of Pantone colours using up to seven ink stations. Printing 29-inches sheets in colour at up to 4,600 per hour, the press is capable of producing over two million colour sheets per month. It can print on substrates like canvas, synthetics and metalised media.

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W7200*
The dual-engine, continuous-feed HP Indigo W7200 digital press is the premier digital solution for large volume, highly variable runs, for jobs such as on-demand short-run books, journals, manuals, yearbooks, and magazines. With the exclusive HP ElectroInk liquid ink, the press delivers offset look and feel. It can produce CMYK process colour jobs with an extensive colour gamut, and achieve almost total Pantone emulation with four, six, and seven colours mixed on-press. At speeds of 240 full-colour pages, 480 two-colour pages, or 960 one-colour pages per minute, it can produce more than 7.5 million or 30 million monochrome pages per month.

5900*
The leading choice for medium-volume printers, the HP Indigo 5900 digital press can print at 90 colour pages per minute for more than two million colour pages per month. It can also deliver five million pages per month using its rapid 272 pages per minute monochrome speed. HP SmartStream Production Pro brings substantial RIP power. Multiple drawers enable continuous printing of a diverse job mix, and seamlessly switching between jobs and media types. It is compatible with uncoated and coated papers, as well as canvas, synthetics, lenticular, metallised, dark and transparent media, and paperboard with thickness up to 550-microns.

3500*
The HP Indigo 3500 is the perfect solution for those looking to enter into the colour digital production space. The HP ElectroInk technology delivers excellent offset quality printing, with such features as, a wide colour gamut with up to seven-colour printing; special, spot and brand colour capabilities; state-of-the-art colour management, with HP Professional Pantone emulation and ICC profiles. It offers production rates of 68-ppm colour and 136-ppm monochrome in one press, regardless of media type; adjustment-free, minimum-touch paper handling; an easy-to-use HP SmartStream On-board Print; server (digital front end); and support for a wide substrate range, among others.

* These HP Indigo presses are presently operating in India but the models have been phased out