Inkjet & Digital Printing
HP Indigo Digital Press Installation Continues the Tradition of Innovation at F. E. Burman
Monday 29. September 2008 - HP today announced that F.E. Burman Ltd has installed an HP Indigo 7000 Digital Press to spearhead development of new market opportunities.
The installation includes an HP SmartStream Production Pro Print Server capable of handling the high volumes of data required to feed the high-speed HP Indigo 7000 Digital Press and enable sophisticated variable data printing and personalisation.
The fifty-year old London-based company is well-known as an innovator and was an early adaptor of digital printing, installing an Indigo E-Print 1000 press in 1995, and subsequently an HP Indigo press 3050. A modern print service provider, F. E. Burman began as a repro company, pioneering digital pre-press, and currently provides repro, print, mailing and IT services to blue-chip customers.
The company describes itself as a “media and marketing production hub” specialising in information architecture, digital and short-run offset printing, mailing, database management and pre-media production. The location of the HP Indigo 7000 Digital Press reflects this concept: it is not on the production floor, but showcased in a new, purpose-built marketing suite.
“This is the press that sets the standard for the future,” said Michael Burman, F. E. Burman managing director. “The HP Indigo 7000 Digital Press has exceptional productivity, is able to hand a wide range of substrates and with its powerful multi-RIP front-end, it can handle image-rich, multi-page documents with complex personalisation. This press will enable us to enter a variety of new markets and meet their demands with high quality products.”
Launched earlier this year, the HP Indigo 7000 Digital Press is aimed at companies printing more than one million pages per month. It prints 120 A4 pages per minute in colour, or 240 A4 pages per minute in monochrome. The HP Indigo 7000 Digital Press runs at a process speed that is 76 per cent faster and uses 25 percent less power than earlier digital presses, and offers on-press image oil recycling, and longer consumables life.
“The cost-effective high volumes that can be handled by the HP Indigo 7000 Digital Press mean that work can be moved from litho to digital production based on production requirements, not just on run length,” said Burman. “This press offers quality, speed, productivity and an integrated end-to-end solution that will provide the platform for our future development.”