HP digital press fulfils speciality print tasks

Technik has installed an HP Indigo 5500 digital press to increase its capabilities and extend services beyond traditional commercial print to short-run and speciality tasks.

Technik uses digital colour reproduction to offer achromatic film production, high-end retouching and other pre-press services.

With its sister company Connekt Colour, Technik offers digital printing, full digital studio photography, design and artwork for commercial print and packaging, as well as continuing to carry out colour retouching work.

The company installed an HP Indigo 5000 in 2007 and traded it for HP's Indigo 5500, which is claimed to provide colour reproduction on a variety of substrates up to 350gsm.

Terry Walker, founder and managing director of Technik, said: 'The capability of HP's Indigo 5500 means that we can print products far beyond traditional commercial print.

'For example, we have tested printing cards for blister packs when digital printing can be used where shorter runs are required, such as language versions or special offers,' he added.

Two book-printing jobs have drawn on Technik's expertise in repro and digital printing, as well as in project management.

The first was a limited-edition volume called 'God's Cookbook' by Jamie d'Antioc, published by the Arcadian Press.

The 368-page book was printed on acid-free, wood-free book paper in a run of 250 number copies and 50 client copies.

The second volume undertaken by Technik was 'A Description of the Villa at Strawberry Hill', a facsimile edition of the 1784 (extra-illustrated) work by Horace Walpole.

'The book comprised 328 digitally printed quarto pages and 160 pages printed letterpress so the book combines the newest and oldest printing technologies,' Walker said.

Forty-two copies of the book were printed and bound, half calf, for members of the Roxburghe club and its library.

A further 200 copies were bound quarter morocco and buckram for sale through select antiquarian book dealers.

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