HP Indigo Solutions for Growth Discussed at Dscoop5

DALLAS—HP has announced new and updated solutions to drive print service provider (PSP) productivity and profit opportunity, including a new HP SmartStream management information tool and the industry’s first white ink for sheet-fed digital presses.

HP made its announcements at the Digital Solutions Cooperative’s Dscoop5 Conference. HP production printing solutions shown at Dscoop5 help PSPs manage their digital print operations, improve press uptime and enter new markets.

The new HP SmartStream Production Analyzer monitors, benchmarks and reports key metrics, providing customers with a deeper understanding of their HP Indigo print operations so they can improve efficiency.

The newly available HP ElectroInk White—significant achievement for sheet-fed digital presses—helps commercial printing firms and other PSP customers enter new markets for point-of-sale display and greeting card printing.

PSPs looking to expand with folding carton applications can now combine the packaging workflow of the HP SmartStream Labels and Packaging Print Server, powered by Esko with HP Indigo press 5500 and its thick substrate kit upgrade.

HP has extended its HP Indigo Print Care solution, which increases customers’ press uptime with diagnostic and print-quality assistance tools, to support the HP Indigo press 5500.

Updated HP Exstream Remote Collaboration tools provide HP Exstream customers with new document creation and management capabilities.

In addition to these solutions, HP also is showing its newest Indigo press – the HP Indigo W7200 – for the first time at a Dscoop event, highlighting its high-productivity, high-quality imaging features for publishing, photo and transpromotional printing applications. The Dscoop5 Solutions showcase also includes the HP Indigo 5500 and 7000 digital presses, HP SmartStream and HP Exstream software solutions, and HP Designjet and HP Scitex large-format printers.

“The annual Dscoop conference is our most valuable forum to meet with graphic arts customers, learn from them and highlight the ways HP can help them succeed,” said Alon Bar-Shany, vice president and general manager, Indigo division, HP. “The solutions HP is bringing to Dscoop5 exemplify the types of innovations and process improvements that spur continual growth in digital printing.”

Available now worldwide and showcased at Dscoop5, the new HP ElectroInk White ink for the HP Indigo 5000 and 5500 digital presses allows customers to print a variety of jobs normally produced on offset or flexographic presses, such as greeting cards and point of purchase displays printed on colored, transparent and foil substrates. As the only white ink available for sheet-fed digital presses, it continues HP Indigo’s tradition of innovation by providing one of the broadest offering of color gamut capabilities, spot colors and special-effect inks in the digital color production printing space.

Improved media compatibility and a new workflow enhancement allow HP Indigo PSPs and packaging converters to meet the growing market need for quick-turnaround, offset-quality, and affordably priced short- and medium-run folding cartons.

The HP SmartStream Labels and Packaging Print Server, powered by EskoArtwork, the solution driving HP Indigo’s digital presses for the label market, is now compatible with the HP Indigo press 5500 as an alternate front-end solution for folding carton production. The sheet-fed 5500 press, with its optional thick substrate kit, and the web-fed HP Indigo WS6000 both support folding carton media, extending customers’ ability to win new business.

HP Exstream’s improved and redesigned Remote Collaboration offering on display at Dscoop5 is a browser-based design tool. Remote Collaboration can create and deploy messages into document applications within hours while ensuring consistent branding and content accuracy.

PSP clients that are content experts – including marketing staff, legal professionals, copywriters, compliance officers and proofreaders — can use HP Exstream Remote Collaboration to write, edit and review targeted communications remotely, without affecting design production parameters like document layout, data, output or operational controls.

More information about new HP graphic arts solutions announced at Dscoop is available at www.hp.com/go/dscoop5.