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News Release from: Hewlett-Packard | Subject: Indigo press 5000
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 November 2005
Six-Colour Digital Press For Variable
Data Print
Repropoint has installed a six-colour HP Indigo press 5000 at its Woking, Surrey (UK) operation to respond to market demands for the production of print using personalisation and variable data.
Repropoint has installed a six-colour HP Indigo press 5000 at its Woking, Surrey (UK) operation to respond to market demands for the production of print using personalisation and variable data technology The press will be used to supply a range of variable data printing to the company's customers, including personalisation, direct mail and number printing
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 13 Mar 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Designed for high volume, short-run, on demand and personalised printing, the HP Indigo press 5000 prints up to a claimed 4,000 full-colour A4 pages per hour.
Using its new six-colour HP Indigo press 5000, Repropoint can also now print Indichrome on-press - a six-colour printing process that uses special orange and violet inks, in addition to the standard CMYK colours.
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Drukkerij van der Eems, a full-service printer located in Oosterend (Netherlands), has installed an HP Indigo press 5000 to replace its Ultrastream.
That means that an accurate colour match can be produced for the logos of an increased number of blue-chip organisations.
The extended colour matching compatibility will open up a wider target market for Repropoint, said HP.
Repropoint's managing director Mike Webb said: "We've already had very favourable comments from our customers regarding the quality of the print from our new HP Indigo press 5000 - it has really produced the 'wow factor' for many of them.
Increasingly customers are requesting spot colours or supplying jobs to be printed using six-colours and the new press rises to that challenge." Repropoint has experienced massive change since 1975 when it printed plans for architects, engineers and the construction industry (AEC).
Today, the demand for printed plans is smaller and its business has switched to the production of marketing collateral, including POS, direct mail brochures and manuals.
"While we are still recognised as a key supplier of print to the AEC industries, the move to producing marketing material has been entirely organic and today provides the majority of our business.
With its wide colour gamut and the ability to print on substrates weighing as little as 65gsm, we see the HP Indigo press 5000 as a key tool to strengthening our position in the digital market place," Mike Webb said.
The HP Indigo press 5000 is claimed to be suitable for medium and large sized commercial printers.
It features a specially designed paper feed to ensure the efficient operation and reliability essential in high volume printing.
The paper input system provides an increased capacity and offers seamless paper loading with no necessary friction or air adjustments, even when switching to different media, said HP.
Repropoint is also established as a user and re-seller of HP large format printers.
It sells the Designjet series (5500, 4000, 1050, 800, 500, 430) and the 815 MFP to a customer-base across the south east of England.
They include firms of architects, engineers and builders, who use the printers for printing and copying plans on-site.
Repropoint sells consumables, including paper and ink and provides a full installation and support service for its customers, with four engineers dedicated to the large format division.
Today, Repropoint employs 106 people.
In addition to its Woking-based head office, it has four sites across the south.
An early adopter of digital technology, Repropoint celebrates its 30th birthday this month and plans to hold a series of open days for current and potential customers and will showcase its HP Indigo press 5000 and new range of services.
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