EVENT SPOTLIGHT / HUNKELER INNOVATIONDAYS 2023 49 www.printmonthly.co.uk May / June 2023 - Issue 342 Turbo Press, the world’s fastest digital press with speeds of up to 410mpm. Workflow solutions were also showcased in the form of Kodak’s KODAK PRINTERGY On Demand Business Solutions – the first end-to-end workflow solution for the print industry. Jennifer Pennington, a paper scientist and current director of product management & OEM partnerships at Eastman Kodak Company, told Print Monthly: “The response [to the launch of the ULTRA 520 press] has been fantastic, we’ve had a lot of interest in the technology, people are excited to see Kodak back at the Hunkeler show and we’re excited to be here. “Hunkeler is my favourite show of all the shows. I love the small collaboration aspect of the show. We have been able to communicate with all the other vendors whilst we’re here as a collaboration of the inkjet market as the whole world watches as inkjet continues to grow.” As a company that offers both inkjet and offset printing solutions, Pennington described where Kodak stands on both of these technologies: “Kodak of course would like to be the whole solution for all of our customers both in the offset and inkjet spaces so we want to continue to offer something that our customers can use for both. “What we do see is that as offset runs get shorter and shorter, the crossover point to inkjet as inkjet continues to get better and better, will be higher. So we believe that we have a solution for any of our customers who want to do either.” More European Debuts Right at the entrance of Hall 2 was HP with a large presence to showcase PageWide Advantage product enhancements and solutions for the first time in Europe. At the busy show, HP unveiled its latest innovations to the HP PageWide Advantage 2200 inkjet production press and introduced its Smart Workcell Controller advancements in automation, its Advanced Color Suite, and HP ColorPRO paper mill partner expansions ink inkjet coated, treated stocks. With HP’s PageWide customers producing heavy volumes of high-value print across the web press portfolio, the manufacturer revealed that its PageWide commercial customers have achieved a new milestone of 825bn pages printed. “We are thrilled for our customers’ accomplishments,” says Annette Friskopp, global head and general manager at HP PageWide, adding: “This milestone is a testament to our customers’ ingenuity to implement the versatility and productivity advantages of digital printing. We are happy to support their growth with our PageWide platforms.” The demonstration of the PageWide Advantage shown at Hunkeler Innovationdays included a two-dryer configuration that is energy-conscious and highly efficient. According to HP, it uses approximately 20% less energy than the three-dryer configuration at maximum power, while printing a wide variety of unique samples. Also at the event was Canon with the manufacturer launching its ProStream 3000 series, the next generation of high-speed, web-fed inkjet printers for the commercial print market. Extended media capability is a big feature of the new series with the range promising to deliver consistent offset print quality and bringing a wider selection of substrates including heavyweight paper. According to Canon, this extended media capability makes it even easier for print businesses to migrate high-volume, high-value work from offset and legacy technologies. Available in two models, the 80m per minute ProStream 3080 and the 133m per minute ProStream 3133, the series can produce high print quality on web widths up to 558mm and for page lengths up to 1,524mm. In order to deliver offset quality at higher speeds, the series features an enhanced drying system which uses air floatation throughout the paper path to protect the surface quality of the printed output. “Customers worldwide have already embraced ProStream’s exceptional productivity for everything from high-margin books to premium direct mailing jobs – while benefitting from minimal waste and very high uptime. “With the launch of the new ProStream ▼HP showcased PageWide Advantage product enhancements and solutions ▲Hunkeler launched its new Starbook book production line which can process 2,000 books per hour
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