HP Expands Graphic Arts Range
By: Erik Vlietinck
May 10, 2007
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HP expanded its graphic arts portfolio to offer customers an even wider range of digital solutions that feature industry-leading productivity, print quality and colour consistency.
The new solutions, which focus on accelerating HP’s growth in key areas of the printing market, enable customers to offer high-quality services, differentiate from competitors and, in turn, increase revenue opportunities. Highlights of the news announced at the 2007 HP Graphic Arts Summit include:
Two new HP Indigo presses – including the flagship HP Indigo 5500 press, which is also available in a special photo package, and the entry-level HP Indigo press 3500 – that are designed to bring industry-leading productivity and digital offset print quality to commercial printers;
The company’s first branded finishing accessory, the HP Indigo UV Coater;
The HP mPrinter 1700c, the company’s first process-color device for original equipment manufacturer partners;
The HP Designjet T Printer series, offering new levels of print quality and dependability to the technical market; and
The HP Designjet Z6100 Printer series, which offers a market-leading combination of speed, quality and consistency to print service providers and technical work teams.
Alwan Color Expertise Partners With PerfectProof
By: Erik Vlietinck
May 07, 2007
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Alwan Color Expertise and PerfectProof announce a collaborative agreement to integrate Alwan’s preflighting, standardization and optimization color technology within PerfectProof’s ProofMaster software solution suite for digital proofing, printing and cutting. The agreement offers a dynamic pairing of technologies that ensure a complete solution for accuracy throughout a digital workflow, delivering time savings and reduced ink consumption.
Alwan Color Expertise, a leader in standardization and color management implementation, is renowned for its CMYK Optimizer software for colour preflighting, standardization and optimization for CMYK separations and data. CMYK Optimizer enables design and prepress companies to quickly and accurately produce documents for problem-free printing. Printers gain the capability to control and improve the printability of jobs by optimizing the separation according to the process, press and paper used. Files standardized using CMYK Optimizer generate accurate proofs, easy to reproduce on press while facilitating optimal printability.
