HP ws4500 User Manual

HP Indigo press ws4500
Productive, cost-effective, versatile printing solution for label and package printing
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Approximately 65% of label jobs around the world are produced in print runs of less than 50,000 labels, or under 6,500 feet
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Fact! Label and packaging print jobs are continuing to become shorter!
Fact! Customers are demanding shorter lead times and faster turnaround!
Fact! Conventional printing processes are prohibitively expensive for low volume orders and result in shrinking profit margins!
How do you adapt to these changing market trends, satisfy exacting customer demands and, at the same time, sustain a profitable printing business?
The HP Indigo press ws4500 provides a complete end­to-end solution from prepress to finishing and lowers production costs immediately in several key areas:
• It eliminates the expense of films, plates or chemistry.
• It generates little or no waste.
• It requires far less set-up time than conventional printing.
For runs up to 6,500 feet, the HP Indigo press ws4500 significantly lowers your costs. And it integrates easily within your existing printing environment to complement the capabilities of your current equipment.
Be labeled ‘premium provider’ with the HP Indigo press ws4500
The HP Indigo press ws4500 solution allows marketers to respond rapidly and cost effectively to shorter product life-cycles and ever-changing retail needs. It allows for highly targeted labeling and packaging — applications that would be expensive or impossible with a traditional press. These include: versioned products, event marketing, private labels, regional and seasonal packaging and test markets.
The flexible production offerings, rapid response times and the liquid ink quality of the HP Indigo press ws4500, complement conventional printing capabilities to expand your service options. This allows you to allocate jobs to your most suitable, cost efficient press while consistently maintaining the offset quality your customers are used to. This way, you can optimize your productivity, ensure repeatable colors and maximize your profitability on every job.
Expand your arsenal of services
The HP Indigo press ws4500 can help you grow your business and transform you into an indispensable, one­stop partner for your customers. It lets you build an arsenal of new services for the production of labels, shrink sleeves and flexible packaging:
• Provide your customers with instant proofs identical to their required jobs.
Fig 1: Run length types (# of 5 x 10 cm labels)
Source: Labels & Labeling The increase in small order quantities – and the decrease in long runs–has created new opportunities and higher profit margins for the label converter and printer.
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• Print runs as few as one, or up to 50,000 labels in fast turnaround time, exactly when required and help customers get their jobs to market quickly.
• Supply small, medium and large quantities to your customers to precisely meet their needs and help them manage their supply chain effectively, thereby saving them inventory costs.
• Provide exceptional print quality, to ensure your customers’ brands stand out in the marketplace.
• Print spot colors to meet your customers’ corporate branding requirements.
• Offer virtually limitless substrate compatibility and cater to a wider range of packaging needs.
• Use variable data printing to provide complete, full­color product personalization, as well as ticketing and game pieces.
• Use numbering and security features to enable product track and trace and help your customers protect their assets.
Benefit from built-in revolutionary technology
Your HP Indigo press ws4500 includes a number of uniquely competitive features:
HP ElectroInk. HP Indigo uses the unique HP ElectroInk liquid ink technology — the only color process in digital printing that equals the quality and color range of offset.
One-Shot Color printing. Enables all color separations to be laid down simultaneously on the final substrate, preventing registration issues and allowing you to print on a broad variety of substrates.
HP IndiChrome Plus. Expands color versatility beyond CMYK by offering you: a broader color gamut that includes CMYK + OVG (orange, violet, green) inks supported by an EskoArtwork digital front end; a closer match to the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM Colors; a broader applications range; a higher analog-to-digital transformation rate.
On-press Fast Ink Replacement (OFIR). Simple on-the­fly replacement of special/spot colors eliminates the time needed for swapping colors, making spot color jobs simple to execute.
HP SmartStream Labels and Packaging Solutions, Powered by EskoArtwork. The user-friendly HP Indigo
hardware and EskoArtwork software package enables connectivity to conventional solutions through EskoArtwork software. This front end solution ‘remembers’ color settings for each substrate at the prepress stage, simplifying color management and allowing repeat jobs to produce identical output on whatever press you use.
Fast setup and job changeover
Touch screen panel
Inspection plate
Splicing table
One-Shot Color
Assures perfect registration by accumulating all image separations on the blanket and transferring them to the substrate simultaneously in one shot.
Rewinder
• An easy-to-use touch screen panel, inspection plate and splicing table allow print quality inspection and fast roll replacement.
• Optional rewinder designed especially for flexible packaging applications with tension control and web guide.
• Multi-substrate capabilities down to 12µ films.
Work station
• For intuitive operator control over the functioning of the press, with easy-to-use menus and guidance.
• Remote assistance to press operator via support center.
In-line densitometer
Assures color consistency, fidelity, dot gain compensation and accurate repeatability across jobs and allows the operator to fine-tune the press during printing.
7-station ink cabinet
• Liquid-based HP ElectroInk achieves best-in-class print quality.
• 7 ink stations allow the use of up to 7-color process colors (CMYKOVG) or a combination of process and special colors (white or spot).
• The on-the-fly On-press Fast Ink Replacement (OFIR) system makes spot color jobs simple to execute and increases overall press productivity.
Ink cans
For easy, fast and clean ink replacement.
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Attention lights
• Allow operator to monitor press alerts remotely.
• Allow customers with multiple presses to assign one operator to 2 presses.
Splicing table
Adjustable web width mechanism
For easy adjustment of substrate width.
Web guide
Automated web guide for continuous substrate control.
Unwinder
Easy-to-use touch screen panel, splicing table and web handling make changing substrates quick and easy.
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Digital front end solutions
HP SmartStream Labels and Packaging Print Server, Powered by EskoArtwork digital front end that supports end-to-end workflow.
Maximize results with HP Indigo partners
HP has aligned with industry-leading partners to address the most critical customer needs:
The HP SmartStream Labels and Packaging Print Server, Powered by EskoArtwork. A high-performance
RIP, Digital Front-End and workflow controller, the server can reside in your prepress environment or near the press. From its centralized location, it assures highly efficient file processing, best-in-class color control, simple, sophisticated bar-coding, enhanced step and repeat and high quality variable data output. The server enables connectivity to central EskoArtwork workflow solutions, as well as to other workflow components, such as web-to-print and MIS solutions.
With extensive space for storing a tremendous number of jobs, the server scales to adopt system upgrades and increased workflow requirements. The solution also addresses your production needs through ICC color management, and includes prepress tools in the native environment of Adobe
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Illustrator™.
AB Graphic (www.abgint.com) ABG Digicoat: offers an affordable in-house coating
solution, and can be used to apply water-based primers or optionally UV curable over varnishes.
ABG Digicon label finishing: the Series 2 Digicon range from AB Graphic International offers an unprecedented variety of options for digital print finishing—available either in-line or off-line and incorporating flexo varnishing and semi-rotary die-cutting along with the options of overlaminating, semi-rotary screen printing, hot foil blocking, and embossing, as well as an inspection system. The modular design allows for any combination of processes to be carried out in a single pass, and its sophisticated control system enables quick changeovers with minimal waste.
ABG Digilam flexible packaging finishing: the ABG Digilam is a laminator designed for flexible packaging applications, such as food-specific substrates. The equipment allows water-based adhesives to be applied via a gravure coating system. It incorporates a 4-stage high power hot air drying system, followed by a heated laminating nip roller and a single spindle rewind with pneumatic lay-on roller. A sophisticated web tension control system enables the easy handling of materials as thin as 12 microns.
Rotoflex Vericut System (www.rotoflex.com). The off-
line Vericut system features automatic registration with continuous correction, auto-positioning, auto-learn, servo-driven draw stations, and maximum machine speed in variable and constant repeat modes.
Delta Industrial (www.deltaind.com). The Delta
Spectrum Series flexible Mod-Tech rotary converter is optimized to run in-line or off-line with the HP Indigo narrow web presses. All modules are servo controlled to register and reregister from each axis; they unwind and rewind clockwise or counter clockwise. The system includes a steering assembly and die station, and provides the coating, over laminate, flex and engraved die cut, slit or sheet, laser die cutting, hot stamp, cold foil and more.
Michelman (www.michem.com). Environmentally
friendly, water-based DigiPrime coatings provide excellent HP Indigo ink adhesion on a variety of substrates.
Media partners:
Fedrigoni/Manter, UPM Raflatac, Avery Dennison, Ineos Films, Mitsubishi and Innovia offer diverse self­adhesive paper and films on rolls and sheets.
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“The print quality of the HP Indigo press is excellent, and its 7-color capabilities enable us to print on a wider range of substrates, including clear, textured and colored variants.”
Elisha Tropper, former President and Owner Prestige Label, NC
Print engine specifications:
Process colors
PANTONE®Colors**
Input system
Output system
Dimensions of press
Weight of press
HP SmartStream Labels and Packaging Print Server, Powered by EskoArtwork
Optional equipment/configuration:
52.5 feet per min. in 4-color mode 105 feet per min. in 1 or 2-color mode
12*-350 micron (0.47*-13.8 mils)
Self-adhesive label stock and films
HP ElectroInk technology
812 x 812 dpi 812 x 1,624 dpi when printing in high resolution mode Line screens: 144 (sequin) 160, 175, 180, 230 lpi
12.13" x 17.72" max.
Max. width: 12.99" Min. width: 7.87"
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, Orange and Violet
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, Orange, Violet and Green
PANTONE Colors are mixed using the HP IndiChrome Ink Mixing System or ordered via the HP Indigo Ink Mixing Services.
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Roll load/unload pneumatic device Max. roll weight: 880 lb. Active web guide
Microsoft
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Windows XP®Professional
2.8 GHz Pentium® 4 processor, 36 GB hard drive 512 MB base memory, expandable to 4 GB 15 inch flat screen monitor DVD-RW/CD-RW Image disks - two 36 GB drives which provide 70 GB of image memory
TCP/IP Profibus with WHS
10/100/1000 Base-T
Postscript Level 3, PDF 1.4, TIFF, JPEG, EPS, PPML 1.0, JLYT
HP SmartStream Labels and Packaging Color Kit, powered by EskoArtwork HP SmartStream Labels and Packaging VDP Tools, powered by EskoArtwork HP SmartStream Labels and Packaging Pre/press Tools, powered by EskoArtwork
5th, 6th and 7th color printing; HP Indigo Ink Mixing System
Optional
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Technical specifications
Printing speed
Substrate thickness
Substrate type
Printing technology
Image quality
Image size
Web width
Standard 4-color printing
HP IndiChrome on-press simulation (6-color printing)
HP IndiChrome on-press simulation (7-color printing)
HP IndiChrome off-press (mixed spot ink)
White ink
Input roll max. diameter: 51.18" Core inside diameter: 3" (6" optional) Tension control system Air expanded shaft
Rewinder: 23.62" max. roll diameter
Length: 81.1" Width: 64.96" Height: 86.61"
12,100 lb.
Software platform
Hardware platform
Network protocols
Physical network connection
Supported formats and standards
HP SmartStream DigitalFront-Ends
Expanded colors capabilities
Reinsertion
*Substrate testing recommended **Pantone licensed
PANTONE
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and other Pantone, Inc. trademarks are the property of Pantone, Inc.
Hewlett-Packard Company 1001 Summit Boulevard Mailstop 401 Atlanta, GA 30319 USA Tel: +1 800 289 5986 Fax: +1 404 648 2054
Europe, Middle East and Africa
Hewlett-Packard Indigo B.V. Renier Nafzgerstraat 100 6221 KL Maastricht The Netherlands Tel: +31 43 356 5656 Fax: +31 43 356 5600
Asia Pacific
Hewlett-Packard Company 138 Depot Road Singapore 109683 Tel: +65 6727 0777 Fax: +65 6276 3160
Latin America
Hewlett-Packard Company 5200 Blue Lagoon Drive Suite 950 Miami, FL 33126 USA Tel: +305 267 4220 Fax: +305 265 5550 informahpindigo@hp.com
Israel
Hewlett-Packard Company Kiryat Weizmann P.O. Box 150 Rehovot 76101 Israel Tel: +972 8 938 1818 Fax: +972 8 938 1338
To learn more, visit www.hp.com/go/graphic-arts or www.hp.com/go/myhpindigoweb
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4AA0-6668ENUS, April 16, 2008. This is an HP Indigo digital print.
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