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News Release from: Hewlett-Packard | Subject: Indigo press 5000, Indigo press w3250
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 13 March 2006
Indigo Digital Press Record Sales Drive
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HP has announced that its Indigo Division has reported a record quarter in driving the transformation from analogue to digital printing.
HP has announced that its Indigo Division has reported a record quarter in driving the transformation from analogue to digital printing The company had a record high of over 100 Indigo press installations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) in the quarter ending January 31
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 16 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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During the quarter, HP also announced the availability of the newly-enhanced Indigo press 5000, which features new software editions, hardware options and what is claimed to be a 100 per cent faster print speed for monochrome (1/0) printing.
The Indigo press 5000 is claimed to make it easier to integrate digital print capabilities in to existing production and workflows.
In addition, the 5000 not only provides HP's highest-volume in sheet-fed printing production, with a level of offset print quality that has been proven to be superior to its competitors.
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Continuing to drive momentum in the marketplace, HP said it will expand its product line this year with the availability of the web-fed Indigo press w3250 at Ipex, which, at a claimed speed of 136 pages per minute, will be the fastest HP Indigo press on the market.
Commenting on the company's record Indigo peformance, Alon Bar-Shany, the Indigo division's general manager, said: "This achievement clearly attests to the quality and breadth of our Indigo family of digital presses, as well as the growth opportunities in the graphic arts market.Digital printing has grown in the last decade from five per cent of the total printing industry to well over 10 per cent and that growth trend is expected to continue at an even faster pace." He added: "By offering best-in-class digital printing technologies exemplified by the Indigo press series, coupled with strong systems and partner relationships, we're enabling our customers to create value, realise new business opportunities and improve communications in the global market." The company cited a number of Indigo digital press users as ones that are exploiting the potential of the technology.
One company, Elanders Infologistics Vast has nine Indigo digital presses installed in Sweden, Norway and the UK.
The pan-European supplier of print on demand services is reducing costs on a growing volume of digital print applications, whilst enhancing volume in high-end personalisation products, said HP.
The SP Group, a division of UK printing group St.
Ives, incorporates data collection, design, and four Indigo press 5000s to provide customers with tailor-made programs that provide savings.
In the UK, The Stationery Office (TSO) has installed a seven-colour Indigo press 5000 at division dedicated to producing governmental and parliamentary work.
The new digital press enables TSO to print on-demand, short-run colour work that it previously had to outsource.
The Rikorda Group, an Italian photographic finishing group, has chosen an Indigo press 5000 for the production of photograph albums for the consumer market, with on-line services based on the latest digital technology.
In Barcelona (Spain) Cargraphics Digital Printing Network has installed an Indigo press 3050, using the press's personalisation and variable data capabilities to print on-demand, personalised marketing material, brochures and flyers.
With operations in Colombia, Mexico and Brazil, it is Cargraphics' first digital press to be installed in Europe and the fourth Indigo press 3050 across its digital print network, which also includes an Indigo press 5000 in Colombia.
In Germany, Duermeyer, database publishing, brochures, catalogues, lists and other marketing materials in its production portfolio, the company produces work virtually automatically.
its operation is based on a central data pool, with the company using an Indigo press 5000.
Also in Germany, Infowerk invested in a new Indigo digital press and integrated a second Indigo press 5000 to better produce customised projects for customers including Adidas, BMW, VW, Audi and Nestle.
At the same time, the German Schreiner Group, with an Indigo press ws4050, has achieved a wider choice of colours and quick turn-around times for print runs comprising as few as 100 labels and a quality comparable with offset, said HP.
The Schreiner Group is also equipped to handle digital label printing.
In a move to reshape the commercial printing industry in Turkey towards short runs and one-to-one targeted marketing, MAS Matbaacilik has bought the country's first Indigo press 5000.
A four-colour Indigo press 3050 has been installed at Creda Communications' Johannesburg plant in South Africa to drive the company in to the top-end digital printing market.
Creda will offer customers full-colour, short-run, variable-data printing services.
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