Addressing High-Volume Production Challenges  

Today’s printing companies are navigating growing manufacturing challenges. Supply chain disruption, vitality provide considerations and worsening sector labor shortages reinforce the necessity for larger effectivity, pace and reliability throughout the manufacturing flooring.

The HP Indigo 120K Digital Press introduced at the moment units a brand new customary for high-volume manufacturing and automation, whereas enabling printers to maneuver jobs from analog to digital extra intuitively and economically to fulfill demanding buyer wants. Optimizing manufacturing flooring by combining analog and digital applied sciences, the HP Indigo 120K reduces human touchpoints and permits multi-press operation by a single operator. The new press delivers offset-matching picture high quality, versatile job routing between offset and digital, and an ECO mode possibility that reduces the press’s carbon footprint by 11%³, supporting sustainability targets.

Unlocking Profitable Growth

The next-generation of the bestselling B2 sheet-fed digital press, at the moment’s launch of the HP Indigo 18K Digital Press takes versatility, effectivity, and user-friendliness to new heights. As the business printing sector tackles important aggressive transformation, the necessity for presses and options that assist printers enrich their providing and sustainably develop their enterprise is crucial.  

The new HP Indigo 18K Digital Press handles the widest vary of print functions ever produced with a single B2 digital press⁴ , accommodating numerous substrates and job varieties seamlessly. Advanced AI options like auto restoration and proactive alerts improve productiveness and simplify your complete manufacturing course of, attaining as much as 80% press availability⁵ inside a single shift. Aligning with HP’s sustainability dedication, the Indigo 18K helps Enhanced Productivity Mode (EPM), delivering 24% vitality financial savings per sheet⁶.

Innovating for Restricted Digital Security Printing

Today HP introduces the groundbreaking HP Indigo 7K Secure Digital Press, revolutionizing restricted digital safety printing by executing security-focused print jobs in a single cross. Collaborating with Jura JSP, this cutting-edge sheet-fed press permits workflows tailored for safety manufacturing strains, so prospects can diversify their choices, cater to a complete vary of safety wants, and purchase new prospects to develop their enterprise.

“As the printing industry embraces automation and digitalization, HP Indigo empowers customers with unprecedented levels of productivity, efficiency, versatility, quality, and cost-effectiveness,” stated Noam Zilbershtain, VP and GM, HP Indigo and Scitex. ” Our portfolio defines the business customary for automation and sustainability, reflecting HP’s imaginative and prescient for the print manufacturing flooring.”

 “We’re additionally excited to announce that at the moment HP will roll out common business availability of the HP Indigo V12 Digital Press, the quickest slim net digital press available on the market and first press to make the most of new modern LEPx expertise⁷. Commercial availability comes after profitable beta website installations together with Brook + Whittle, a pacesetter in sustainable packaging and digital printing within the US” continued Noam Zilbershtain, VP and GM, HP Indigo and Scitex.

Paving the Way for Success with Intelligent Factory Floors   

HP is defining the business method to automation by way of AI and robotics, launching a complete print manufacturing automation ecosystem. Based on inside research, prospects who leverage automated processes obtain 51% increased quantity and 80% extra jobs per press in comparison with much less automated prospects. These prospects additionally develop at a mean of 27% year-over-year which is increased than the business common. HP’s holistic method combines efficient presses with clever options from job submission to supply.

Specific effectivity improvements embrace:

• PrintOS Production Beat Support for analog printing and ending tools, to allow prospects to watch their total manufacturing flooring, not solely HP presses, capturing knowledge in actual time from analog tools and digitalizing your complete manufacturing.
• HP Indigo PQ Maestro, providing an clever start-of-day wizard that optimizes press efficiency.
• Preflight, an AI-based decision-making device that routinely predicts the suitability of the best-fit print mode by studying prospects preferences.
• AAA 2.0 (Auto Alert Agent) superior, a machine-learning algorithm that will increase print productiveness with zero human intervention⁸.

“By using AAA 2.0 we experience a significant reduction in production time, saving 1 hour for every 80,000 impressions. This not only enhances our operational efficiency, but also drastically reduces customer complaints and returns by 5-7%” highlighted Andreas Organzidis Head of Color Digital Printing, Elanders.

As the business strikes in the direction of a extra productive manufacturing flooring, HP introduces Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) in collaboration with Movigo to automate media switch, saving as much as two hours per day, per press. 

Developed in collaboration with printers and converters, at the moment HP additionally pronounces the launch of the HP Sustainability Amplifier program enabling printers and converters to speed up their sustainability agenda and provide extra sustainable prints. The program, in collaboration with HP’s Sustainable Impact Strategy, aligns with HP’s dedication to renewable vitality and decreasing CO2 emissions.