Dutch commercial printer Wihabo has installed an HP Indigo 100K digital press, which it will use to deliver mass production printing.

Wihabo is a family business founded in 1986, and is known for printing high volume unique and personalised prints for local and international clients, including packaging for companies such as confectionery brand Tony’s Chocolonely.

The new HP Indigo 100K will replace the current HP Indigo 10000 at Wihabo and deliver mass production printing, while the three other HP Indigo presses in the printer’s fleet – one HP Indigo 12000 and two HP Indigo 7900 models – will focus mainly on speciality prints, like printing with white, fluorescent pink and food-safe ink.

The HP Indigo 100K was introduced earlier this year as part of the digital press specialist’s Series 5 portfolio, replacing the 10000 model. It can print 6000 sheets per hour in EPM (three-colour enhanced productivity mode).

The HP Indigo 100K is designed with high productivity in mind, as required by offset press users looking to transition more work to digital and deliver on-demand printing, as well as existing HP Indigo 10000 digital press users, such as Wihabo, who want more productivity without increasing footprint. The HP Indigo 100K uses advanced paper handling and an offset-like gripper-to-gripper design for precision registration, while adding boosted digital capabilities, including a five-input source feeder, colour automation, calibration and fast switchover between jobs and media.

As part of its strategy to stay ahead, maintain leadership and become the ‘most complete digital print supplier possible’, Wihabo wanted a press that not only supports offset work, but also delivers higher productivity, higher quality and higher efficiency. While Wihabo is the first to install an HP Indigo 100K since the product’s release, German trade printer Onlineprinters acted as the beta test site* for the HP Indigo 100K and has since purchased the press (*links to news from sister publication, Digital Printer).

Joris Bosch, chief technology officer at Wihabo, commented, ‘We are very pleased with the energy and resource savings we will achieve with the HP Indigo 100K. The speed and quality in EPM mode on the press will allow us to migrate an even larger part of our offset volume to digital. Together with HP PrintOS, we will be able to use real-time data to improve our workflow and efficiency, adapting more quickly to our customer needs.’