HP Indigo Press Ws4500 Productive, Cost-Effective,Information Versatile Printing Solution for Label and Thepackage Printing
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version. current a for website HP the Check current. be not may document this in information The HP Indigo press ws4500 Productive, cost-effective, versatile printing solution for label and package printing Progressive Profitable Printing Approximately 65% of label jobs around the world are produced in print runs of less than 50,000 labels, or under 6,500 feet (See Fig. 1) Fact! Label and packaging print jobs are continuing to become shorter. Fact! Customers are demanding shorter lead times and faster turnaround. Fact! Conventional printing processes are prohibitively expensive for low volume orders and result in shrinking profit margins. How do you adapt to these changing market trends, version. satisfy exacting customer demands and, at the same time, sustain a profitable printing business? current “With the HP The HP Indigo press ws4500 provides a complete a end-to-end solution from pre-press to finishing and Indigo press we for lowers production costs immediately in several key are already seeing areas: more revenue opportunities, • Eliminates the expense of films, plates or chemistry. website greater productivity • Generates little or no waste. HP and profitability, and • Requires far less set-up time than conventional the increased customer printing. For runs up to 6,500 feet, the HP Indigo press retention and Check ws4500 significantly lowers your costs. It integrates Be labeled ‘premium provider’ with loyalty.” easily within your existing printing environment the HP Indigo press ws4500 Jerry Berke, President to complement the capabilities of your current current. The HP Indigo press ws4500 solution allows marketers Lion Labels, MA equipment. be to respond rapidly and cost effectively to shorter product life-cycles and ever-changing retail needs. It not Fig. 1 Run length types (No. of 2 x 4 inch labels) allows for highly targeted labeling and packaging — Source: Labels & Labeling Magazine applications that would be expensive or impossible The increase in small order quantitiesmay – and the decrease in long runs–has created new opportunities and higher profit margins for with a traditional press. These include: versioned the label converter and printer. products, event marketing, private labels, regional and seasonal packaging, and test markets. 40% document The flexible production offerings, rapid response this times, and the liquid ink quality of the HP Indigo 35% in press ws4500, complement conventional printing capabilities to expand your service options. This 30% allows you to allocate jobs to your most suitable, cost efficient press while consistently maintaining the offset 25% quality your customers are used to. This way, you can information optimize your productivity, ensure repeatable colors The 20% and maximize your profitability on every job. 15% Expand your arsenal of services The HP Indigo press ws4500 helps you grow and 10% transform your business of short to medium runs of labels and flexible packaging into an indispensable, one-stop shop, service supplier for your customers. 5% It lets you build an arsenal of new services for the production of labels, shrink sleeves, and flexible 0% packaging: 0- 25,000- 50,000- 75,000- 100,000- Over 25,000 50,000 75,000 100,000 150,000 150,000 2 version. current a for website HP the • Provide your customers with instant proofs identicalCheck to digital printing that equals the quality and color range their required jobs. of offset. • Print runs as few as one, or up to 50,000 labels in One-Shot Color printing. Enables all color separations current. fast turnaround time, exactly when required and help to be laid down simultaneously on the final substrate, customers get their jobs to market bequickly. preventing registration issues and allowing you to • Supply small, medium and largenot quantities to your print on a broad variety of substrates. customers to precisely meet their needs and help HP IndiChrome Plus. Expands color versatility beyond them manage their supplymay chain effectively, thereby CMYK by offering you a broader color gamut that saving them inventory costs. includes CMYK + OVG (orange, violet, green) inks • Provide exceptional print quality, to ensure your supported by an EskoArtwork digital front end; a customers’ brands stand out in the marketplace. document closer match to the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM • Print spot colors to meet your customers’ corporate Colors; a broader applications range; a higher brandingthis requirements. analog-to-digital transformation rate. in • Offer virtually limitless substrate compatibility and On-press Fast Ink Replacement (OFIR). Simple cater to a wider range of packaging needs. on-the-fly replacement of special/spot colours, OFIR • Use variable data printing to provide complete, full- technology dramatically reduces the time needed informationcolor product personalization, as well as ticketing for swapping colours, thus improving the press and game pieces. productivity and making spot colour jobs very simple The • Use numbering and security features to enable to execute. product track and trace and help your customers HP SmartStream Labels and Packaging Solutions, protect their assets. Powered by EskoArtwork. The user-friendly HP Benefit from built-in revolutionary Indigo hardware and EskoArtwork software package enables connectivity to conventional solutions technology through EskoArtwork software. This front end solution Your HP Indigo press ws4500 includes a number of ‘remembers’ color settings for each substrate at the uniquely competitive features: pre-press stage, simplifying color management and allowing repeat jobs to produce identical output on HP ElectroInk. HP Indigo uses the unique HP ElectroInk whatever press you use. liquid ink technology — the only color process in 3 Fast setup and job changeover One-Shot Colour Assures perfect registration by accumulating all image separations on the blanket and transferring them to the substrate simultaneously in one shot. Rewinder • An easy-to-use touch screen panel, inspection plate and splicing table allow print quality inspection and fast version. roll replacement. Touch screen panel • Optional rewinder designed especially current for flexible packaging a applications with tension for control and web guide. • Multi-substrate capabilities down to 0.5 mil films. website HP the Inspection plate Splicing table Check Work station current. • For intuitive operator be control over the functioning of the not press, with easy- may to-use menus and guidance. • Remote assistance to press operator via document support centre. this in information The 7-station colour ink cabinet: • 7 colour stations, allow Pantone emulation of 4, 6, 7 process. Inline densitometer Ink cans colours and spot colours printing Assures colour For easy, fast, and • On-the-fly On-press Fast Ink consistency, fidelity, dot clean ink replacement. Replacement (OFIR) system for gain compensation and easy spot colours printing. accurate repeatability • Enlarged ink cans for maximized across jobs and allows productivity. the operator to fine-tune the press during printing. 4 Digital Front End solutions HP SmartStream Labels and Packaging Print Server, Powered by EskoArtwork Digital Front End supports end-to-end workflow. Attention lights: • Allow operator to monitor press alerts remotely. version. • Allow customers with multiple presses to assigncurrent one operator to a two presses. for website Web guide HP Automated web guide the for continuous substrate control. Check Unwinder Easy-to-use touch screen current. panel, splicing table be and web handling make changing substrates quick not and easy. may document this in information The Adjustable web Splicing table width mechanism For easy adjustment of substrate width. 5 version. current a Maximize results with HP Indigo ABG Digicon Seriesfor 2 range from AB Graphic International offers an unprecedented variety of partners options for digital print finishing—available either “The print quality of HP has aligned with industry-leading partners to in-line orwebsite off-line and incorporating flexo varnishing the HP Indigo press address the most critical customer needs. You can find andHP semi-rotary die-cutting along with the options is excellent, and its a growing list of regional equipment and substrate of overlaminating, semi-rotary screen printing, the 7-color capabilities partners on the ‘My HP Indigo’ portal. hot foil blocking, and embossing, as well as an inspection system. The modular design allows for any enable us to print on The HP SmartStream Labels and Packaging Print Check combination of processes to be carried out in a single a wider range of Server, Powered by EskoArtwork. A high-performance pass, and its sophisticated control system enables RIP, Digital Front End and workflow controller, the substrates, including quick changeovers with minimal waste. clear, textured and server can reside in your pre-press environment or near the press. From its centralized location,current. it assures DCM (www.dcm.fr) colored variants.” highly efficient file processing, best-in-classbe color DCM offers HP Indigo customers the most compact, Elisha Tropper, control, simple, sophisticated bar-coding,not enhanced easy-to-use shrink sleeve finishing solutions in the former President step and repeat, and high quality variable data output. industry. The DCM Sleeve is an offline sleeve seamer, and Owner The server enables connectivitymay to central EskoArtwork allowing a printed roll to be folded and seamed workflow solutions, as well as to other workflow Prestige Label,