Inkjet & Digital Printing
Sommer Corporate Media Installs Three New HP Indigo 7000 Digital Presses
Monday 25. August 2008 - HP today announced the purchase of three six-colour HP Indigo 7000 Digital Presses by Sommer Corporate Media, Wailblingen, Germany, doubling the company's digital printing capabilities.
Launched earlier this year, the HP Indigo 7000 Digital Press is designed for companies requiring production volumes greater that one million pages per month, and significantly increases the break-even point against offset printing.
Sommer Corporate Media offers a diverse range of products across all key commercial and consumer markets, including photo-specialty applications, manuals, personalised mailings, brochures and customised web-to-print solutions. Its customer base includes Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Audi, Chrysler, Altana and BASF.
“The HP Indigo 7000 Digital Press is the answer to our dynamic growth,” said Andreas Rainer, manager, digital printing division, Sommer Corporate Media. “The press couples productivity and flexibility in a previously unknown way. Using the new HP Indigo 7000 Digital Press, we have been able to migrate more work from lithographic to digital production. The press’s ability to print at high speeds means that we can now produce jobs with longer run lengths digitally.”
The HP Indigo 7000 Digital Press runs at a process speed that is 76 percent faster than the HP Indigo press 5500(1), enabling it to print 120 A4 pages per minute in colour, or 240 A4 pages per minute monochrome. The maximum print format of 317 x 464mm is larger than the HP Indigo press 5500 (317 x 450mm) giving it additional product versatility. Additionally, screen rulings of 144, 175 and 180lpi are available. The HP Indigo 7000 Digital Press processes substrates ranging in weight from 60 to 350g/m2. A paper supply unit comprising four drawers with an overall capacity of 6,100 sheets is provided as standard.
Capable of printing up to seven colours, the HP Indigo 7000 Digital Press can reproduce an extended gamut with the six-colour HP IndiChrome process, and an even wider gamut with the seven colour HP IndiChrome Plus process. The ability to match 97 percent of the PANTONE Colour range with special colours, means that printers can reliably reproduce brand and corporate colours. The press is controlled by the new, scalable printing server of the HP SmartStream family that pushes the RIP performance contributes to increased productivity.
Peter Sommer founded Sommer Corporate Media as a one-man business in 1982. Today the company has a workforce of about 200 employees, and has been an independent partner in the Swedish Elanders group since 2007. Sommer Corporate Media demonstrates the complementary nature of digital and offset production with 28 conventional offset printing presses and, now, eight HP Indigo presses.