HP Inc. 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.
“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 Inc. “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.
• 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 Front End 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.
• The
Tresu iCoat 30000, sold and serviced by HP Indigo, for one robust folding
carton production line.
Digilinck, a folding carton converter based in
Deinze, Belgium, is adding a second HP Indigo 30000 digital press. “The Folding
cartons market is changing and our customers expect speedy delivery and lower
inventory levels. The HP Indigo 30000’s high flexibility and offset matching
quality allow us to seize this opportunity and build a new profitable digital
business, offering short turnaround-time and economic production of short-run
healthcare packages,” said Vincent Oosterlinck, Owner, Digilinck. “Since
installing the press, our business grew by 66% in the last three years.”
Addressing the dynamic corrugated packaging market
HP also announced that Kiwiplan, a leading MIS/MES
software solutions provider for corrugated and rigid packaging, will be fully
integrated, keeping the HP PageWide C500 presses running at optimum capacity,
while helping customers to save time and costs through production and supply
chain efficiency.
Five customers in Europe and the US have already
purchased the groundbreaking PageWide C500 Press for direct-to-board post-print
corrugated production. The first unit will ship next month.
Utilizing HP’s high-performance single-pass Thermal
Inkjet technology, the HP PageWide C500 provides a cost-effective digital
alternative for offset lamination and flexo production. The press delivers
offset quality direct-to-board with mainstream productivity on both coated and
uncoated papers, delivering packaging with vibrant graphics that preserves even
the finest details.
The HP PageWide C500 utilizes HP CV150 Water-Based
Inks, which contain no UV-reactive chemistries. These true water-based inks
allow corrugated converters to print primary and secondary food-related
packaging without an additional barrier.2 This robust and trusted solution
enables compliance with the most stringent global food safety regulations and
industry guidelines.
