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100K to Australia
HP Indigo 100K at CMYKhub
The new HP Indigo 100K is the company’s fastest digital sheetfed printer to date, the B2 6000sph duplex press designed to pump out up to a million sheets a month
HP Indigo currently dominates the B2 digital market, its own estimates claim it has 95 per cent share, with in excess of 1000 presses in the market. The new 6000sph HP Indigo 100K is designed for non-stop printing.
The development and launch of the press comes from the HP Indigo analysis of the B2 market, with high-volume digital printing identified as a major opportunity for print businesses. It is the first press in the new HP Series 5 platform.
Phillip Rennell, sales and marketing director, Currie Group said, “With the new 100K, HP Indigo has continued to innovate, and increased the ability to meet changing customer demands for our Australian and New Zealand customers.”
HP Indigo says the new press is not simply intended to replace offset printing, rather complement it, although offset to digital transfer
is one of the key strategies with most commercial B2 in the 5000 sheets or less bracket. The company does describe the HP Indigo 100K as a "digital offset press" saying printers "will recognise the sound it makes from feed and delivery".
The HP Indigo 100K Digital Press offers uninterrupted duplex digital printing, enabling printers to deliver more than one million B2 duplex sheets per month. Printing at up to 6000 sheets per hour, the new four-colour HP Indigo 100K press delivers higher productivity compared with the HP Indigo 10000 series, along with the printing look and feel of offset. It has the capacity to print on different substrates non-stop.
HP says the high performance is enabled by advanced paper handling and offset-like gripper- to-gripper design for precision registration, as well as Indigo digital advantages, including colour automation, calibration, fast switchover between jobs and media, and five-input source feeder.
It will accommodate a maximum sheet size of 750 x 530 mm, a minimum sheet size of 510 x 330 mm, and will print an image of 740 x 510 mm maximum. It will print uncoated media from 70 gsm to 400 gsm, and coated media: 90 gsm to 400 gsm, in thickness of 75 to 450 microns.
The HP Indigo 100K has just won an Intertech Technology Award, regarded as the Oscars of print technology.
the CMYKhub HP Indigo 100K on site, with the machine expected to run double and treble shifts.
Along with the new HP Indigo 100K CMYKhub has just completed an overhaul of its own factory workflow, in order to ensure it is achieving optimum efficiencies. Nankervis says, “We didn’t want the machine just to go where we had space, we wanted to ensure it will operate at the highest level, recognising that it is one part in our end-to-end workflow. As a result, some 80 per cent of the Melbourne factory has been realigned.”
Bernie Robinson, managing director of Currie Group says, “CMYKhub is the biggest sheetfed HP Indigo user in the country, and has been for some time. The new HP Indigo 100K will enable the business to provide an even higher level of support to its customers.
Robinson says. “The press was up and running in just four days, the first run saw 5500 B2 sheets printed in just over an hour. This machine is built for non-stop production. The smarts and the engineering that have gone into the HP Indigo 100K are seriously impressive. It is robust, industrial scale, digital printing.
At a time when the print industry, like every industry, has been under severe pressure, it is to the industry leaders that the rest of the industry looks for the way ahead. With its latest multi-million dollar investment in Australian print CMYKhub is certainly showing that leadership.
Craig Walmsley, country manager HP Personalisation & Industrial Business South Pacifi, said, “The HP Indigo 100K is our most productive digital B2 solution yet. It was engineered with offset users in mind, with striking print quality that matches the offset look-and- feel while offering significantly higher productivity with up to 6000 sheets per hour.
“At HP, we’re incredibly proud to see the first HP Indigo 100K in Asia Pacific installed here in Australia
at CMYKhub. We look forward to continuing to work closely with the team at CMYKhub, and through our partner Currie Group, in supporting their business growth.”
Dayne Nankervis says, “We are proud that CMYKhub has installed the first HP Indigo 100K in the Asia Pacific region. It is a tremendous investment in local print, and will be a confidence booster for the whole industry.” 21
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