HP has launched the first PageWide web presses, formerly branded HP Inkjet Web Presses, and has enhanced HP Indigo 7800 Digital Press enhancements, both of which it says will deliver improved image quality, higher productivity and more application options for printers.
Currie Group supplies these machines in New Zealand. HP says the two new 42-inch inkjet web presses, the HP PageWide Web Press T480 HD and T470 HD, feature HDNA technology and offer enhanced print quality with unparalleled dual-drop-weight architecture, 2400 nozzles per inch and built-in nozzle redundancy. It calls the PageWide Presses a giant digital leap ahead.
The company says the T480 HD and T470 HD solutions open up new publishing, direct mail and general commercial printing application opportunities, including colour trade publications, medical journals, posters and banners up to 108 inches long, as well as high-end retail brochures and catalogues.
The new inkjet presses feature a quality mode that enables dual drop weight per colour, which HP says gives sharp text, fine lines, accurate skin tones, smooth gray and colour transitions, as well as enhanced highlight and shadow details at print speeds up to 400 feet per minute (fpm). New performance modes offer speeds up to 800 fpm and 600 fpm using single drop weights.
PageWide Web Presses, powered by High Definition Nozzle Architecture
HP says current customers can upgrade to the new technology to take advantage of the enhanced quality and productivity enabled by HDNA.
The company says its HP Indigo 7800 enhancements simplify colour management and increase productivity.
The Indigo 7800 Digital Press offers enhanced on-press colour management tools in press software version 11.4 as well as an in-line spectrophotometer, eliminating the need for manual colour manipulations.
The company says its media fingerprinting, 3D colour calibration, spot colour refinement and other advanced colour management tools streamline the process for colour standards certifications, such as Gracol and Fogra, ensure accurate colour matching on a variety of substrates and provide colour consistency across presses and sites over time.
The Indigo 7800 also features an on-press production management tool that helps manage the print queue, prioritise print jobs, plan substrate usage and improve efficiencies. HP says this enables continuous printing and proofing in parallel without the need to break between jobs, improving customers’ productivity up to 50 per cent per shift.
