Grow your business with digital post-print flexibility at scaled-volume production.
Productivity and economics
Reduce manufacturing costs and increase your production capacity.
Offset print quality
Achieve consistent offset print quality for packaging, at fast production speeds.
Sustainable solution
Improve your sustainability profile with HP true water-based inks.
Easy adoption of digital
Simplify your transition to digital.
HP PageWide C550 Press
Increase press performance and optimize your print quality with HP’s technology innovations.
The innovative top feeder is designed to handle a wide range of industry grade sheets including thin and micro-flutes while keeping to minimal footprint. It can feed the print smoothly in consistent speed of 90 m/min (295 ft/min), while automatically handle poor-quality stacks and differences.
The print bridge is made up of 91 print heads, distributed along 7 print beams. The first set of 13 print heads jet HP’s water-based Bonding agent, selectively on the board. Thus replacing completely, the need to prime the board prior to printing. The next print beams print CMYK water-based inks with built-in redundancy that allows achieving multi-pass quality in a single pass.
The unique Virtual Belt technology ensures precise media motion control. It guides boards through the printing process at production speed, with precise dot placement accuracy across the full run.
The Corrugated Grips hold the edges of warped sheets flat throughout the print process.
The C550 true water-based inks allows a wide range of packaging applications, including primary non-contact food packaging. The true water-based inks adhere to global health and safety requirements.
HP Thermal Ink jet print heads technology delivers offset print quality in a cost-effective manner. With 6x redundancy, print quality if consistently high even at fast production speeds.
The conveyor allows water to be absorbed by the paper, while the pigments are held on the surface by the bonding agent, enabling ink efficiency and high quality.
Any remaining water is fully evaporated and the image is completely dry. The process is managed by both hot air and IR lamps that effectively dry a wide range of media weights at high speed.
The aqueous varnish provides the necessary durability using standard flood flexo coater. Windows for gluing is facilitated by the Bonding agent (Fixer for Knockouts).
The stacker ensures consistent sorting and stacking of boards, according to quality. With dedicated tray for samples taken during print and dedicated tray for ejects.
End-to-End Solutions
Post-print
Printing directly on top of the fully assembled board and eliminating lamination.
Thermal Inkjet
The thermal inkjet printheads on the C550 have 1M nozzels allowing 6x nozzle redundancy for high and consistent print quality with sharp text and barcodes and smooth tone transitions on coated and uncoated sheets.
CV150 water-based inks
CV150 true water-based inks are 100% free of UV-reactive chemistries, meeting stringent food and sensitive product packaging standards.
Achieve a smooth transition to digital, maximum efficiency and flexibility through a comprehensive suite of solutions delivered by HP and partners.
Planning & Submission
Print Preparation / Prepress
Production & Conversion
Print Beat
Gain visibility into press efficiency with real-time, data-driven insights to drive continuous improvement in print operations.
PrintOS Mobile app
Enjoy absolute control over your print operations from virtually anywhere, at any time, from any device.
Knowledge Zone
A searchable repository of technical, training, application, and marketing resources.
Business Transformation Services (BTS)
Achieve confidence in digital production from launch by aligning converters business goals with the digital adoption journey and building one plan to meet production and OEE targets.
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Presses for Corrugated Packaging
Technology
Grow your packaging portfolio with proven technology and true water-based inks that open the door to new possibilities.
Corrugated Packaging Applications
Expand into new applications to deliver more variety and more options with true water-based inks and offset quality.
Sustainable Impact
Improve your sustainability offering to customers with a solution that reduces the environmental impact of printing.
Disclaimers
- Primary and secondary, non-contact corrugated packaging, requiring no additional barriers; For more details on the appropriateness of these inks on specific packaging applications contact HP for documentation. HP water-based inks are 100% free of UV-reactive chemistries and comply with EU framework for food packaging, Nestlé guidelines and Swiss Ordinance.