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Trade Printing
CMYKhub
installs five HP Indigos
National trade printing house CMYKhub has just installed five HP Indigo Digital Presses, the biggest order supplier Currie Group has received in the 17 years it has been supplying the presses.
The five HP Indigo presses at CMYKhub join the four the company already has, and means that each CMYKhub has two
HP Indigo, with the exception of Sydney, which has a B2 HP Indigo 10000 Digital Press.
Melbourne also has a B2 HP Indigo 10000, the remaining seven are from the HP Indigo 5000 and 7000 range and include one in Melbourne, two
in Brisbane, two in Perth, two in Brisbane and two in Cairns. The five presses just installed by Currie Group include an HP Indigo 7800, a 7600 and a trio of 7r digital presses.
Trent Nankervis, CEO of the family owned CMYKhub says, “The quality of print on the HP Indigo is at a similar level to the offset print we get from our Komori and Ryobi UV offset presses, and this was key in opting for HP Indigo for our digital fleet.
“CMYKhub is determined to offer its trade partners every possible advantage, which is why we have installed HP Indigo presses in each of our print hubs around the country, in fact most of them have two. HP Indigo offers offset quality, in short runs, with variable data and on demand printing.
The quality of print we are achieving is high, on both coated and on uncoated stock, it is as vibrant
as UV offset. We find toner sits on the sheet, where Indigo sinks into it, giving the quality. Just like offset
HP Indigo prints to a blanket first then transfers onto the sheet, delivering a smooth dot.”
“We first installed HP Indigo five years ago, and our experience since then with the printers and with the supplier Currie Group drove our
decision to go with HP Indigo again for this major new investment.
David Currie, executive chairman of supplier Currie Group says, “CMYKhub has been an HP Indigo user for many years, so it knows what it is getting, which is high quality print in a robust digital machine.
“Everyone knows the commitment CMYKhub has to the market, to its customers, and its desire to provide them with the best print.
“The HP Indigo provides quality print on demand, in short runs with variable data if required. As a trade printer CMYKhub has to meet a wide range of requests from its clients, the HP Indigo is clearly a key part of its solution.”
“Part of our aim in installing digital print solutions was to be platform agnostic, so as far as the customer is concerned the result is the same with digital and offset, and we achieve that offset quality result with the HP Indigo.” – Trent Nankervis
Trent Nankervis says, “We are also seeing a lot of demand in the market, particularly from the agencies our customers deal with, for print produced on HP Indigo, HP has done a great job in back selling the benefits of Indigo.”
CMYKhub is the country’s largest trade printer, and the only one with manufacturing facilities in Vic, NSW, Qld and WA. It is now fully owned by the Nankervis family, one of the best- known print families in the country, with a serious pedigree in print won over decades.
In addition to its digital printing the company has been investing strongly
in UV offset presses over the past few years, the Vic hub has an eight-colour B1 Komori H-UV, with the other manufacturing sites in NSW, WA and Queensland running eight-colour A1 RMGT LED -UV 920 series presses, and another about to go in.
The only exception is Far North Queensland, which has two HP Indigo presses to compliment its rollfed and flatbed wide format printers, but no longer runs offset. Nankervis says, “If we have a call
for a long run job we will print it in Brisbane, but the HP Indigo presses up there print virtually everything our customers need, they do a terrific job. The market is really suited to
HP Indigo, for instance there is lots of tourism print, and that print is produced in many different languages to accommodate the different visitor groups, which is ideal for Indigo.”
“Part of our aim in installing digital print solutions was to be platform agnostic, so as far as the customer is concerned the result is the same with digital and offset, and we achieve that offset quality result with the HP Indigo. It is then a question of which is the most efficient to print, and
that depends on factors such as run length, turnaround time, whether there is variable data.”
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