HP SmartStream is a graphic arts portfolio of workflow components for creating digital printing production solutions that meet a broad range of market segments and application needs. The brochure below more fully describes HP SmartStream and how it can add value to any HP Indigo press purchase.

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 HP SmartStream Director 

The "backbone" of the SmartStream portfolio,  HP SmartStream Director, powered by Press-sense™, delivers small to large print service providers an integrated and open end-to-end workflow solution based on industry standards (JDF) and the newly introduced Press-sense iWay™ version 5.0 platform. The product comes with a suite of tools that enable jobs to be efficiently created or submitted online via customised B2B or B2C storefronts and then efficiently managed in-house from quoting right through to fulfillment of the finished job.

Additionally, high performance Variable Data Printing capability can be made available to print buyers on-line by way of the HP SmartStream Designer tool set (see below) which comes as standard with every HP SmartStream Director purchase. 

Designed to be a near turn key soultion all software comes preloaded onto best in class HP server hardware and the package also includes initial set up & training plus ongoing hardware & software support.

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 HP SmartStream Designer 

This application provides robust variable data printing and imposition tools designed specifically to optimise output from HP Indigo digital presses. Available as a plug-in for Adobe InDesign or as XTension software for QuarkXPress, HP SmartStream Designer utilises SNAP, an HP Indigo proprietary RIP-less data assembly technology, to ensure that the press operates at full speed even when printing complex variable data jobs.

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HP SmartStream Print Servers

The HP SmartStream Onboard Print Server - is an on-press intregrated RIP that is built into every commercial sheet fed press except the 7000 series. 

The HP SmartStream Production Pro Print Server - is a high-performance raster image processor and press controller designed to drive large volumes of jobs, including complex variable-data jobs. This off-press solution takes workflow tasks out of the press room and puts them in the pre-press environment where they can be efficiently and centrally managed.

A highly flexible, centralized and scalable solution, the server can manage up to 12 HP Indigo presses, with automatic load balancing and single point of control. With robust integration to print service providers’ management information systems, the Production Pro facilitates efficient management of production processes.

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With extensive space for storing a tremendous number of jobs, the server scales to adopt system upgrades and increased workflow requirements. This solution also addresses your production needs through ICC colour management, and includes pre-press tools in the native environment of Adobe Illustrator.

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