HP has partnered with Epic to develop a new Priming solution for its Inkjet Web Press. This uses Epic’s PrimeCoat system, a separate unit that can be used in either an inline or nearline configuration, which uses anilox rollers to flood coat the whole width of the media on both sides simultaneously.
HP claims that it will allow a broader range of media than its existing Bonding Agent, including standard offset coated media, where Bonding Agent optimises uncoated offset papers. It’s designed to work with the current A51 inks that HP uses and should give a matte finish. Guy Thompson, Category Manager, Mail & Publishing HP GSB EMEA comments: “This means HP press users can print on most types of cost-effective standard offset papers, thus giving cost benefits over inkjet-optimised papers that attract premium prices.”
It won’t be available until the end of this year, when HP will also announce pricing.
HP has developed a mono version of its Inkjet Web Press, the T260, a 66cm wide press that can achieve 244 mpm and is aimed primarily at book printing. It has a duty cycle of 123 million A4 sized. Thompson says that this is a pure mono press with no upgrade to colour, adding: “To achieve the amazing 244mpm speed, we have doubled up the number of black and Bonding Agent print bars (taking up the spaces that would be used for colour print bars in the T230).”
HP has also partnered with Magnum Digital Solutions, which has developed a FlexCut digital sheeter/stacker solution for the T410 press. This offers automated make-ready and on-the-fly stack changes, among other features, giving customers the ability to produce 42-inch by 39.4-inch sheets at speeds up to 14,440 sheets per hour, rivaling offset capability.
Other partner solutions include the Sprint Variable Data Finishing System from VITS International, a moisturiser that uses electrostatic dispensing technology to help with flatness in books and other printed products from Eltex Elektrostatik and a range of softcover and hardcover bookbinding machines including flexible high-speed perfect binding solutions for digital printing from Kolbus.
(Story updated to include Guy Thompson’s clarifications.)
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