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Swing open the door to theworld of digital label printing

Welcome to a full ecosystem solution for any facet of label production. The HP Indigo WS4600 Digital Press offers superior quality, productivity, and flexibility. Launch your business forward by delivering the HP Indigo quality demanded by brands, and start on a growth path to a more profitable digital platform.

The newest addition to the largest digital fleet in the world, the HP Indigo WS4600 Digital Press is yet another leap forward. Built upon the success of the HP Indigo press ws4500, it offers enhanced features based on customer feedback. Expand your offerings by utilising the unique, cutting-edge capabilities of the HP Indigo WS4600 Digital Press–all while significantly lowering your costs compared to conventional printing.

The HP Indigo WS4600 Digital Press is designed for high-volume 24/7 printing, with fully automated workflow from job submission to final product, and seamless job switching. This is a “no compromises” entry-level solution, enabling high productivity and finest quality at an affordable price point.

Gravure-matching print QUALITY

HP ElectroInk liquid ink technology is the only colour process in digital printing that equals the quality of gravure printing. It offers the widest digital on-press colour gamut, as well as spot colours for accurate brand and corporate colour matching.

All colour separations are laid down simultaneously in a single pass on the substrate, preventing registration issues, enabling you to print on a broad variety of substrates, as well as ensuring repeatable and accurate colours.

Move beyond CMYK with HP IndiChrome Plus, to include orange, violet, and green, to achieve a closer match to the PANTONE® MATCHING SYSTEM. With this expanded colour versatility, your business can become a leader in creating innovative brand-specific labels and packaging. Using HP ElectroInk Invisible Red, add anti-counterfeiting components such as invisible barcodes and various other security features. Open new business opportunities with security printing applications now possible with this unique HP Indigo feature.

Maximise your production FLEXIBILITY

The HP Indigo WS4600 Digital Press integrates easily within existing environments, complementing your conventional printing platform and expanding your service options. Use Variable Data Printing (VDP) to communicate directly with end consumers, and complete shorter runs more conomically, with faster turnaround time. Enhance your production efficiency by allocating jobs to the most suitable, cost-efficient solution.

Optimise PRODUCTIVITY and maximise profitability

For the majority of CMYK jobs, Enhanced Productivity Mode increases press throughput by over 30%, with an effective press speed of 21 metres/minute. Enhanced Productivity Mode decreases the cost of printed linear metres, therefore increasing crossover point.

An ecosystem solution—infrastructure beyond the press. HP Indigo has teamed with the leading technology partners in the industry to create exclusive workflow solutions that enable you to build a customised solution for your specific production environment.

HP SmartStream Labels and Packaging Print Server is the Digital Front End solution designed by EskoArtwork for the production of labels and packaging on HP Indigo presses. Driving up to four presses, this highly efficient RIP and workflow station simplifies colour management and ensures consistency and repeatability across all presses. These and additional ecosystem solutions provide you optimal and flexible use of HP Indigo presses.

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Efficiency and versatility for high-capacity production of multiple applications

The HP Indigo WS6600 Digital Press is the most productive, flexible, and high-quality solution for the labels and packaging converter. The press pushes the crossover point of digital vs. conventional processes by up to 50%, compared to the HP Indigo WS6000 Digital Press, making the vast majority of jobs more profitable when printed digitally.

Increase your profitability

The technology of the HP Indigo WS6600 Digital Press supports higher production speed making this press the centre of any production environment. With many new productivity enhancements, it is built to make the most out of every shift. The press breaks the record of other digital solutions, with a printing speed of 40 metres per minute and a maximum speed of 60 metres per minute in 1- or 2-colour mode. You now have the ability to lower media-related costs by using the optional Inline Priming unit to prime standard, non-treated paper substrates while eliminating the need for pre-planned treatment, making the support of last-minute jobs easier and quicker than ever. This allows you to choose from a wider choice of substrates, increasing production flexibility, and lowering media-related costs.

Enhance your productivity

The HP Indigo WS6600 Digital Press makes it eonomical to digitally print the vast majority of label jobs, at any run length. For many CMYK jobs, Enhanced Productivity Mode increases effective printing speed by over 30%, decreasing the cost of printed linear metres. The press also supports a white ink mode that provides high opacity and continued productivity, giving you the ability to print at standard multi-colour throughput levels.

Automation without sacrificing specialisation

The advanced level of automation embedded in the HP Indigo WS6600 Digital Press lowers the need for operator intervention and increases uptime.

• Fully integrated workflow automation solutions – the print server of the HP Indigo WS6600 Digital Press is fully integrated with EskoArtwork's Automation Engine, enabling you to efficiently streamline hundreds of SKUs per day and utilise your press to its maximum capacity.

• Calibration processes automation – Inline Scanner, new software features, and other automated press processes decrease the time required for press calibration; lowering human intervention ensures consistent parameters and higher performance level.

• Improved serviceability — with new tools for remote diagnostics and troubleshooting tools for operators, we help you get the most out of your HP Indigo press.

• Flexibility between inline and offline finishing modes — a new finishing connectivity interface allows you to quickly and easily switch between printing directly to the finishing line or to the press rewinder, allowing you to enjoy the best of both worlds, inline or offline, per job requirements.

HP Indigo WS6000 Digital Press owners–Keeping you up to date

HP Indigo has always invested in keeping you, our customer, technologically up to date. In order for you to boost your business’ growth and leverage your HP Indigo WS6000 Digital Press, we are offering you the opportunity to enhance your press capabilities and add the vast majority of improvements released with the HP Indigo WS6600 Digital Press.

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