Create a bigger future with

HP Indigo technology

In a world where customers demand highly crafted solutions, only HP Indigo technology gives you the agility to meet any need across any type of commercial printing and packaging job.

THE FOUNDATIONS OF HP INDIGO LEP TECHNOLOGY

HP INDIGO ELECTROINKS

Electroink is the special liquid ink used in all HP Indigo presses and is electrically charged to control its placement onto a photoconductor plate. Because of the ink’s unique composition, print quality and performance are virtually independent of the pigment, thus enabling the largest set of inks available in the Digital printing industry.

THERMAL OFFSET TRANSFER

The HP Indigo LEP technology employs a thermal offset transfer process where offset signifies that there is an intermediate transfer member involved, which is wrapped around with a blanket. During the process, very thin ink layers are dried on the blanket and not on the media. Since media is isolated from the stresses of heat and wetness, HP Indigo presses are able to print on the widest variety of substrate types, surfaces and thicknesses.

DIRECT CONTACT

Similar to conventional offset printing, ink transfers through direct contact all along the process, as opposed to inkjet where ink is jetted through the air. With LEP, electroink is always precisely controlled, leading to superior print quality even at the highest speeds. As we review the details of each step in the imaging process, you will quickly understand why the combined characteristics of electroink, Thermal Offset Transfer and Direct Contact Transfer, work together to produce an exceptionally high-level of print quality and versatility

Unmatched color and ink capabilities

HP Indigo has developed a suite of integrated tools to simplify and automate color management while complying with the toughest color standards, so that customers can satisfy the demands of color-critical clients and global brands.

Every HP Indigo press is equipped with a built-in spectrophotometer which is used for measuring and matching target colors, substrate profile creation, color monitoring and calibration.

HP Indigo presses comply with industry color emulation standards, passing tolerances significantly tighter than required. Managing color involves constantly measuring, monitoring and calibrating to compensate for any variations in press conditions and through calibration, return to a baseline that was initially established on the press to match the desired color target.

Widest media and application versatility

HP Indigo digital printing makes it possible to provide your customers with a endless choice of media. Virtually endless variety of media types, offering the broadest gamut of substrates in the digital print industry including:

✓ Off-the-shelf coated and uncoated
✓ Synthetics
✓ Self-adhesives
✓ Heavy and light media
✓ Colored
✓ Metalized
✓ Canvas
✓ RFID
✓ Heat Transfer

True digital flexibility for sheet-fed presses: ability to seamlessly switch between media types without stopping the printing process, using drawer feeders for maximum flexibility

Optimize production efficiency

✓ Produce dozens of jobs per day and millions of sheets per month.

✓ Leverage fastest time to color, parallel color station and gain real production agility with multiple Feeders.

✓ Meet very short turnaround times with a B2 format ideal for short runs—saving half the converting waste and cost compared to B1

✓ Eliminate time between jobs with drawers, pallet feeder, proof-while-you-print, and parallel color station

✓ Cut down setup with fastest time-to-color enabled by the “Spot Master” automated color-matching process

✓ An end-to-end approach with Inline priming, fully integrated coater, and HP PrintOS workflow ecosystem

HP PrintOS

HP PrintOS - A CLOUD-BASED, SECURED, OPERATING SYSTEM

A network connecting thousands of HP customers and solution providers, enabling resources and information sharing, and an effective deployment of complex e2e solutions

Cloud based Secure infrastructure leveraging big-data and real time analysis to optimize press performance, increase uptime and reduce cost of service, grow pages and customers NPS.

A network connecting thousands of HP customers and solution providers, enabling resources and information sharing, and an effective deployment of complex e2e solutions

The Technology paradigm for Graphic Solutions.