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HP Inkjet Web Press
April 10, 2008

Previous blogs discussed the hyped message that new inkjet technologies shown at DRUPA could result in inkjet displacing offset as the dominate technology used for commercial printing. One product fueling this interest is the HP Inkjet Web Press.

On March 10, 2008 in TEL AVIV, Israel, HP announced a move into the continuous feed inkjet color printing market. The HP Inkjet Web Press is a 30-inch wide web press creating excitement because the competitive products are 20-inch wide. This twin-engine duplex printing engine press runs at a speed of 122 meters/minute (400 ft/min) and this equates to 2,600 Letter or A4 pages/minute. Although not official the speculation is that this press will sell for around $2.5 million.

HP Inkjet Web Press is based on new HP architecture called the Scalable Printing Technology (SPT) platform, which according to HP improves the quality of prints by spraying more ink on pages using thousands of nozzles on a single printhead. SPT is already in use on printers like HP’s Photosmart.

Posted by Howie Fenton on April 10, 2008 | Comments (0)