New HP Indigo innovations debut at Labelexpo
Americas 2018
HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) at Labelexpo Americas 2018 will demonstrate its
latest innovations across the HP Indigo Digital Press portfolio, a
suite of solutions designed to create profitable growth and new
business opportunities for labels and packaging converters.
Converters need to differentiate themselves by gaining supply
chain efficiency, increasing speed to market, and using business
innovation to open new markets. They also need the right technology
to evolve and educate brands on the impact labels and packaging
innovations have on customer engagements. The continuing innovation
stream across the HP Indigo Digital Press portfolio enables
converters to grow and transform their business. HP Indigo’s
customer print volumes doubled over the last four years, outpacing
the market because of its extensive portfolio, along with the
industry’s widest range of functional inks, brand protection tools,
and converting and workflow management capabilities. This allows
converters to produce nearly any type of label and packaging
digitally.
“Digital adoption is growing, and converters need more
sophisticated solutions to differentiate themselves and effectively
add value to brands,” said Dave Prezzano, vice president and
general manager, Graphics Solutions Business, Americas, HP Inc. “HP
Indigo’s platform for digital labels and packaging production
empowers converters to embrace the possibilities of print to
create, innovate, and grow their business profitably. By optimizing
supply chain and meeting sustainability goals all while helping
brands engage with their consumers with state-of-the-art automated
design and production management tool – HP Indigo is helping them,
and their customers, thrive in a changing world.”
At Labelexpo Americas 2018 at Booths #3226 and #3429, from
September 25-27, HP is demonstrating the #wonderofprint and its
amazing possibilities with the company’s latest solutions that are
transforming businesses all over the world. Be inspired in
Brandland, put labels through resistance tests at the Pack Ready
for labels station, see HP SmartStream Collage in action, and learn
about HP Indigo’s never-seen-before security and brand protection
with an escape room experience. To learn more, visit HP’s show
preview on LinkedIn.
Application Innovation HP Indigo customers are
leading new frontiers in digital packaging. During the last year,
the second dedicated shrink-sleeve HP Indigo 8000 was installed in
the U.S. for serving the fast-growing craft beverage market. Narrow
web converters are successfully entering the flexible packaging
market leveraging the newly released Pack Ready Lamination – an
easy-to-use, simplified entry point to flexible packaging
applications that allows you to produce industry-standard laminates
with zero cure time.
Laminate tubes are another example of a market in need of
digital advantages. HP Indigo customers around the world are
already leveraging the HP Indigo WS6000 series presses to answer
the market demand. In the last year, tens of millions of laminate
tubes were printed using HP Indigo presses, including a major
Korean cosmetic brand that moved production to digital for
anti-counterfeiting and consumer relationship purposes.
HP Indigo GEM Enters First Stage of Beta Customer
TestingAt Labelexpo 2017, the company announced HP Indigo
GEM, the breakthrough one-pass digital embellishments solution.
This year, the HP Indigo GEM is in first stage of beta customer
testing and the first U.S. beta customer is Innovative Labeling
Solutions (ILS).
“The HP Indigo GEM is a dramatic revolution in digital printing
industry enabling us to bring a fully digital printing solution,
including embellishments, to the marketplace,” said Jay Dollries,
CEO, Innovative Labeling Solutions. “The cutting-edge technology
delivered by HP Indigo GEM removes limitations allowing for
embellishments to vary across labels further helping our business
to be dynamic and responsive to deliver a broad range applications
and creative capabilities.”
HP is also announcing collaboration with LEONHARD KURZ Stiftung
& Co. KG, a leading provider of foils, to ensure compatibility
of their products with HP Indigo GEM. Additional compatible foils
will be available from K Laser Technology.
HP Indigo 6900 Latest Capabilities Continuing
the innovation, the narrow web flagship labels and packaging press,
HP Indigo 6900, offers converters new solutions to enable
accelerated business growth by a set of easy-to-use tools driving
new applications while improving operational efficiency.
HP Indigo 6900 enables converters to:
- Print high-performance applications: Pack Ready for Labels,
extended to HP’s entire labels and packaging portfolio, improves
the performance against water, chemical, and temperature exposure
based on a new UV curable additive added to off-the-shelf
varnishes, cross-linking the label’s construction. With Pack Ready
for Labels, converters can print more types of labels and eliminate
costly lamination processes.
- Enhance brand protection: As leader in digital print solutions
for brand protection, the HP Indigo 6900 supports a wide variety of
solutions including inks and software tools. The newly introduced
HP Indigo ElectroInk Invisible Yellow and Blue are only visible
under UV light, delivering high performance for security
applications. Coupled with new software and cloud-based solutions
that allow anti-counterfeiting marks, micro text fonts, and
protected track and trace solutions, converters can offer unique
layered security, static and serialized, for brand protection.
- Open the full metallic gamut: HP Indigo ElectroInk Silver
combines metallic effects with digital capabilities in one printing
process, saving on metallic substrates and allowing innovation with
clear media. The ink has been successfully adopted by over 100
customers and utilized for a variety of end-use markets including
health and beauty, beverage, and household.
HP Indigo 20000 Expands Application Range and Features
for Labels and Packaging With over 150 HP Indigo 20000
units in the market, current and new converters will continue to
benefit from continuous HP Indigo innovations that improve
efficiencies through production. The digital press enables flexible
packaging converters to disrupt the conventional flexible market.
It helps label converters grow their business by diversifying to
additional applications and large labels. New features and
solutions debuting at Labelexpo showcase HP’s ability to help
converters respond to market demands.
New capabilities allow users to:
- Print anything: With an extended media gamut and enhanced
support of extra stretchable substrates and support of paper
substrates up to 350 microns, converters can take on any print job.
ILP 030 primer is now available for use with the HP Indigo 20000
opening new possibilities in pressure sensitive labels.
- Stand out from the rest: Premium White ElectroInk brings high
opacity white printing to flexible packaging, shrink sleeves, IML
and others with a thin, dry layer of ink ready for lamination and
other post print process right off the press.
- Be sustainable: Concentrated ink reduces oily waste from the
press by up to 50 percent compared to previous ink supplied, as
well as reduced transportation impact1.
- Take on One-Step Production: Expanding the range of converting
solutions, ABGs ILC760 enables efficient and economical one step
applications production of applications including shrink sleeves,
flexible packaging, IML, tubes, wrap around and more. The new
ILC760 enables the top coating and slit-rewind in line with the
press using industry standard water based and UV coatings.
HP Production Pro Enhanced for Full Portfolio
Support The latest Production Pro digital front end (DFE)
is now available for HP Indigo 6x00 portfolio and HP Indigo 20000.
The new DFE eliminates prepress bottlenecks by delivering scalable
RIP performance to process today’s most complex jobs including mass
customization, security, and variable brand protection data.
Production Pro is up to five times faster compared to the previous
versions2 and provides converters with a single point of control to
manage production and colors across multiple HP Indigo digital
presses. Color management is powered by Esko, enabling customers to
manage color accurately, consistently, and predictably.
HP is also now offering Esko Automation Engine QuickStart for
Labels, an out-of-the-box workflow solution that automates label
production. It integrates with HP Indigo presses and MIS systems
connecting the entire label production team via its intuitive
web-browser based interface. Automation Engine QuickStart for
Labels enables converters to handle up to 50 percent more jobs with
the same headcount3 and meet tight production deadlines for
short-run print jobs.
Introducing HP SmartStream Collage HP
SmartStream Collage, an automated variable design feature for HP
Indigo printing, is making its worldwide debut at Labelexpo.
Following the huge success of HP SmartStream Mosaic, HP SmartStream
Collage allows converters to create large numbers of unique designs
by manipulating elements randomly for unprecedented packaging
impact. The new feature, part of HP SmartStream Designer, is
expected to be available later this year.
HP PrintOS New Applications and Enhancements
With over 7000 converters and PSPs and 17,000 registered users
globally, HP PrintOS is a secure, industry-leading cloud platform
with web and mobile apps connected to HP presses and printers.
PrintOS enables converters and PSPs to manage and control their
print operation from anywhere at any time.
New PrintOS Advancements include:
- HP PrintOS Marketplace: A disruptive cloud-based solutions
community to enable on-demand subscription to a wide variety of
value-add workflow apps and licenses, plus a community of ideas,
services and more, from HP and any third party vendor. The first
third party apps on PrintOS Marketplace are:
- PACKZalyzer: Designed for labels and packaging, Hybrid
Software’s PACKZalyzer automatically detects and corrects common
print file issues such as barcode validation, white overprint,
minimum link thickness, font size, and more.
- AutoFlow: A smart, scalable, rule-based pre-press automation
solution from OneFlow Systems. It automates repetitive actions,
including artwork fetching, checking, fixups, and page
manipulations helping to speed time to print.
Additional HP PrintOS advancements include:
- PrintOS OEE: Empowers Converters to use the industry standard
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) methodology to gain insights
into HP Indigo press efficiency.
- EPM Preflight: Using the HP Indigo EPM printing mode increases
press productivity by up to 33 percent and reduces costs compared
to traditional CMYK printing4. The new PrintOS EPM Preflight
feature replaces manual file analysis and offers an effortless way
to check Enhanced Productivity Mode (EPM) compatibility of PDF
files submitted to HP PrintOS Box. Within seconds, it provides a
go, no-go decision regarding EPM compatibility of each job.
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- Oily waste saving was calculated in Mass balance testing.
Shipment saving was calculated by comparing ink shipment of 23%
solids vs. 35% solids.
- Based on job basket analysis and field tests.
- Based on Esko’s calculations and assumption.
- An additional 1200 sheets to the 3600 original sheets equal to
a 33% increase in productivity, when comparing CMYK to EPM printing
(1200/3600).
Kaitlyn Dierkes, HPkaitlyn.m.dierkes@hp.com
www.hp.com/go/newsroom
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