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HP Indigo 8K Digital Press

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Flexo productivity with HP Indigo flexibility

Optimize your entire production floor with a press that provides flexo-level productivity with the advantages of HP Indigo digital printing.

Unmatched media and application versatility1

Expand into higher-margin applications with unmatched versatility.1 Print everything from pressure-sensitive labels to flexible packaging and shrink sleeves.

The choice of the world’s leading brands

Deliver gravure-matching quality to satisfy high brand expectations with HP Indigo liquid electrophotography (LEP) technology.

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HP Indigo 8K Digital Press

Optimize your production shop floor—the ultra-productive press for on-demand medium-to-long runs.

HP Indigo 8K Digital Press

Optimize your production shop floor—the ultra-productive press for on-demand medium-to-long runs.

Converting solutions

Elevate your digital label production with a complete ecosystem of converting solutions tailored to fit HP Indigo presses.

Narrow-web unwinder

The press supports the widest range of media in digital production, including synthetic and paper substrates from 12 to 450 microns.

Digital Printing Engine #1

High resolution printing. HP Indigo’s liquid electrophotography (LEP) delivers crisp linework, attractive images, and smooth vignettes with a very thin ink layer that gives uniform gloss between the ink and substrate.

Ink Cabinet

Seize business opportunities with a wide range of specialty inks, including HP Indigo ElectroInk fluorescents and comprehensive white ink portfolio.

Automatic Alert Agent

Powered by innovative machine learning algorithm, AAA finds and highlights inconsistencies between the digital file and the actual print.

Spot Master. Reach color fast

Get the exact color you want and repeat it automatically with inline spot calibration.

Digital Printing Engine #2

Widest digital color gamut. Use up to 7 ink stations to take advantage of the extensive color gamut. Emulate PANTONE® colors on press using CMYK or HP IndiChrome’s 6- or 7-color process.

Ink Cabinet

Seize business opportunities with a wide range of specialty inks, including HP Indigo ElectroInk fluorescents and comprehensive white ink portfolio.

HP Indigo One Shot Color technology

All color separations are transferred simultaneously to the blanket in one pass, for accurate and repeatable color-to-color registration.

Inline Priming Unit

Enables easy, on-demand treatment of substrates print on either pre-optimized substrates or standard off-the-shelf materials using inline or offline priming solutions.

Converting solutions

Elevate your digital label production with a complete ecosystem of converting solutions tailored to fit HP Indigo presses.

Narrow-web unwinder

The press supports the widest range of media in digital production, including synthetic and paper substrates from 12 to 450 microns.

Digital Printing Engine #1

High resolution printing. HP Indigo’s liquid electrophotography (LEP) delivers crisp linework, attractive images, and smooth vignettes with a very thin ink layer that gives uniform gloss between the ink and substrate.

Ink Cabinet

Seize business opportunities with a wide range of specialty inks, including HP Indigo ElectroInk fluorescents and comprehensive white ink portfolio.

Automatic Alert Agent

Powered by innovative machine learning algorithm, AAA finds and highlights inconsistencies between the digital file and the actual print.

Spot Master. Reach color fast

Get the exact color you want and repeat it automatically with inline spot calibration.

Digital Printing Engine #2

Widest digital color gamut. Use up to 7 ink stations to take advantage of the extensive color gamut. Emulate PANTONE® colors on press using CMYK or HP IndiChrome’s 6- or 7-color process.

Ink Cabinet

Seize business opportunities with a wide range of specialty inks, including HP Indigo ElectroInk fluorescents and comprehensive white ink portfolio.

HP Indigo One Shot Color technology

All color separations are transferred simultaneously to the blanket in one pass, for accurate and repeatable color-to-color registration.

Inline Priming Unit

Enables easy, on-demand treatment of substrates print on either pre-optimized substrates or standard off-the-shelf materials using inline or offline priming solutions.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

HP Indigo 8K Digital Press End-to-End Solutions

Print Care

Manage press operations with on-press self-guided resolution and automated solutions.

Print Beat

Gain visibility into your press’ performance and act upon real time and historical data-driven insights to drive continuous improvement in print operations.

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HP PrintOSX Production Pro server for Indigo Labels & Packaging

The most advanced Labels & Packaging Digital Front End (DFE) we have ever created, supporting even the most challenging workflows.
Drive efficient and profitable production and create applications that will stand-out on the shelf, using partner solutions for HP Indigo labels and packaging presses. The combination of HP’s leading technology and workflow software with finishing partners’ solutions enable print service providers to produce profitable applications such as labels, in-mold labels, shrink sleeves, flexible packaging, and folding cartons.
Turn HP Indigo ElectroInks into your competitive advantage.
Add another layer of security applications with HP Indigo ElectroInk Invisible Yellow & Blue
Improve your productivity with HP Indigo ElectroInk Premium White for sleeves

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A unique label for your unique taste

One of a kind label

Nutella uses HP Indigo Smartstream Mosaic to create 7 million unique labels for great shelf appeal

Award winning Shrink sleeves

Great North Aleworks creates award winning shrink sleeves designs with Century Labels for their Tie Dyed Pale ale.

Vila Etiketten utilizes the mainstream power of the HP Indigo 8000 digital press

Label converter Vila Etiketten face a changing in a world of shorter runs, faster delivery times and more variation in jobs with HP Indigo 8000 Digital Press.

Flextec Corporation's use of the HP Indigo digital presses

By partnering with HP Indigo and harnessing its HP Indigo 8000 Digital press, Flextech learned how to outshine competition, increase business profitability by nearly 40% in new revenue, save jobs, and inspire employees to embrace the amazing possibilities of print.

StrongPoint sees success with HP Indigo 8000 Digital Press

StrongPoint Labels has been a beta test site for the HP Indigo 8000 Digital Press and is reporting success. The Norwegian company says it’s moved label jobs from its flexo machines to the HP Indigo.

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Sustainability

Bring your business into the circular economy today and prepare to excel in the new way that print will be done.

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Technology

In a world where customers demand highly crafted solutions, only HP Indigo technology gives you the agility to meet any need for any type of print job.

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Disclamers
  1. Compared to major digital printing competitors providing narrow-web solutions as of November, 2019.
  2. Requires purchase of the HP Indigo GEM solution or KURZ DM-Jetliner® solution.
Flexo productivity with HP Indigo flexibility
Unmatched media and application versatility.1
The choice of the world’s leading brands

Optimize your entire production floor with a press that provides flexo-level productivity with the advantages of HP Indigo digital printing.
 

  • Meet fast turnaround times with speeds of up to 80 Lm/min in full color, with a press tuned for mid to long runs.

  • Optimize your production floor—run short jobs on the HP Indigo 6900, mid and long jobs on the HP Indigo 8000, and longer simpler jobs on Flexo.

  • Streamline digital operations around HP Indigo technology, PrintOSX workflow ecosystem, ink set, and supply chain.

  • Minimize complexities, waste, and overhead to deliver eco-friendly print jobs with the agility demanded by your market.

Expand into higher-margin applications with unmatched versatility.1 Print everything from pressure-sensitive labels to flexible packaging and shrink sleeves..

  • Diversify your business and gain new revenue streams by producing virtually any label or packaging application, from pressure-sensitive labels to sleeves, IML, wrap-arounds to flexible packaging.

  • Seize business opportunities with the widest range of specialty inks, including spot colors, fluorescents, and a comprehensive white ink portfolio.2

  • Offer high-value jobs, with brand protection elements, variable data and unique designs with HP SmartStream Mosaic and Collage.

  • Easily produce shrink sleeves with high-opacity white specially designed for sleeves.

Deliver high resolution, high-quality printing with HP Indigo’s Liquid Electrophotography (LEP) technology.

  • Hit up to 97% PANTONE® gamut using on-press CMYK, OVG, and spot colors.

  • Achieve perfect color registration with HP Indigo's One Shot Color technology.

  • Count on color consistency and repeatability using automated color calibrations and on-the-fly monitoring.

Printing speed

197 ft/min (60 m/min) in 4-color mode
263 ft/min (80 m/min) in Enhanced Productivity Mode

Image resolution

812 dpi at 8 bit; addressability: 2438 x 2438 dpi HDI (High Definition Imaging)

Line screens

175, 180, 196, 210 lpi

Image format

12.32 in (313 mm)

Substrate thickness*

0.5 to 18 pt. (12 to 450 microns)

Substrate type

Pressure-sensitive labels and shrink sleeves stock

Web width

Max. width: 13.39 in (340 mm) / Min. width: 7.87 in (200 mm)

Unwinder

Input roll max. diameter: 39.37 in (1000 mm)
Core inside diameter:
Standard: 3 in (76.2 mm)
Optional: 6 in (152.4 mm)
Max. roll weight: 595 lb (270 kg)

Inline Priming Unit

Enables easy on-demand treatment of substrates

Rewinder

27.56 in (700 mm) max. roll diameter

Print server

25.2 in (64 cm) of media

Print server

HP Production Pro for Indigo Label & Packaging

Press dimensions

Length: 41ft (12.5 m), Width: 7.87 ft (2.4m), Height: 6.9ft (2.1m)

Cloud connectivity

Via HP PrintOSX

Press weight

21,090 lb, (9566 kg) including inline priming unit

HP Indigo ElectroInks*

Standard 4-color printing

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black

Additional process inks

Standard White, White for Sleeves, and Premium White

HP IndiChrome 6-color printing

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, Orange, Violet, and Violet for packaging.

HP IndiChrome Plus 7-color printing

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, Orange, Violet, Violet for packaging, and Green

HP IndiChrome off-press spot inks

HP IndiChrome Ink Mixing Service for spot colour creation using CMYK as well as Orange, Violet, Green, Reflex Blue, Rhodamine Red, Bright Yellow, and Transparent

PANTONE® colours

Supports PANTONE PLUS®, PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM®, and PANTONE Goe™
HP Professional PANTONE Emulation Technology using CMYK on-press; HP IndiChrome on-press; HP IndiChrome Plus on-press;
HP IndiChrome off-press (IMS) Ink Mixing Service for achieving up to 97% of the PANTONE® color range.