HP has announced a speed upgrade for the HP Inkjet Web Press, a faster colour print module imprinting imager, and the availability of new prepress and finishing solutions for HP Indigo systems at the Graph Expo tradeshow in McCormick Place in Chicago, USA.

The solutions and new features include:

· complete, high-end production lines, including the flagship HP Indigo 7500 Digital Press in streamlined, end-to-end operating environments with the newly available PageReady finishing system from Lasermax Roll Systems;

· a speed upgrade for the HP T200 Colour Inkjet Web Press that doubles throughput on full-colour jobs; and

· the new HP C500 Colour Print Module and HP M500 Monochrome Print Modules, which enable high-speed variable-data imprinting on web offset, digital and mail printing lines at affordable prices.

“As the graphics market shifts from analogue to digital printing, we are helping print service providers grow their businesses with new capabilities, enabling them to expand into new application areas and improve delivery times for high-volume digital printing,” said Jan Riecher, vice president and general manager, Graphics Solutions Business – Americas, HP.

With more than 6,000 presses installed worldwide, including numerous installations at seven of North America’s top 10 printing firms, HP Indigo liquid electrophotographic printing technology continues to be a preferred digital printing platform for offset-quality production in high-impact marketing and many other uses.

In conjunction with the speed upgrade, Pitney Bowes, which uses HP Inkjet Web Press technology in its IntelliJet™ Printing Systems family, is also announcing this higher speed colour option for its IntelliJet™ 20 Printing System.

HP Inkjet Web Press technologies continue to transform segments of the book publishing and production mail industries, offering the reliable, high-quality and high-volume manufacturing capability needed to drive adoption of digital printing. With more than 40 presses operating at customer sites worldwide, HP Inkjet Web Presses have produced more than five billion pages since the first commercial HP Inkjet Web Press installation in December 2008.

The HP C500 Colour Print Module is an improved version of the HP C400 module, offering customers a set of new features for process colour web imprinting applications, including additional speed for improved productivity and new precision rail mounting attachments for easy repositioning of the print module across the web. The C500 also will be available with larger ink supplies for longer, continuous printing in high-speed, high-volume production environments.

More information about HP’s solutions at Graph Expo is available at www.hp.com/go/graphexpo2011, at www.hp.com/go/gsb or through the HP Graphic Arts Twitter feed, www.twitter.com/hpgraphicarts. New videos from HP at Graph Expo will also be available at www.youtube.com/hpgraphicarts