Barbara McManus, VP and General Manager of PageWide Industrial at HP along with the PageWide team hosted press and analysts at their San Diego facility to unveil two new inkjet web presses. The PageWide Web Press T4250 HDR and PageWide Web Press T500 M HD are targeted to the growing commercial and publishing markets where speed is essential, but so is the ability to handle the wide range of substrates clients demand. 

The T4250 HDR targets publishing, direct mail, and commercial print work enabling more high-volume, high-coverage job. This 42-inch (106 cm) web press prints up to twice the productivity of its predecessor, the  HP PageWide T485 HD, resulting in 20,000 B1 duplex sheets and over 200,000 letter-sized duplex color pages per hour. At full performance mode press speed, this press delivers a duty cycle of 184 million U.S. letter-size (173M A4) full-color images per month. This press introduces recirculating ink technology to print offset-level consistency suitable for a wide variety of print products. Using the HP Brilliant B70 Ink means low VOCs and reduces drying time, with up to 50% less energy use than that of the T485 HD. Combined with HP Optimizer, the press maintains high speed and quality on coated and uncoated media with weights ranging from 40 to 350 gsm (30lb text to 130lb cover). This press comes with the established benefits of thermal inkjet technology—8x nozzle redundancy, user replaceable printheads, automated web-wipe cassettes, and on-press color profiling.

The HP PageWide Web Press T500M HD offers book manufacturers a purpose-built solution to meet their clients’ demands for shorter run lengths, tighter turnaround times, and more frequent high-volume orders. The  54-inch/14m press has a proven book production writing system designed to use standard offset media and impositions, allowing operators to shift seamlessly between offset and digital print lines, reduce paper inventory, and streamline labor resources. The 1000 fpm (305 mpm) speed produces finished book blocks of variable trim sizes that move directly to the final production stage, saving time, labor, and floor space. Learn more about HP PageWide Industrial Web Presses here.