As a digital printing process to replace the traditional analog printing process, people no longer doubt its ability to subvert the traditional printing pattern and the inevitable trend, and the average annual growth rate of 16% also illustrates all this. However, under the constraints of inertial thinking and practical problems, digital printing still wears the label of "potential stocks.

As everyone knows, in just a few years, digital printing technology has undergone rapid changes, and the height it has reached seems to have exceeded our understanding. Especially its short time across the lithographic fine printing level of development speed, especially worthy of our wake-up call.

Below, the "Packaging Zone" editor will share with you the latest technological achievements of digital printing collected. Here, HP Indigo and PageWide series are taken as examples to illustrate. After all, HP digital printing occupies the commanding heights in the field of digital printing.

On March 30, 2016, Hewlett-Packard announced in Beijing, China, the launch of five new HP Indigo digital presses, three HP PageWide rotary presses and a variety of cross-platform innovations to improve quality, productivity, versatility and color.

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The updated HP Indigo series sets a new benchmark for print quality that surpasses offset printing. Improved print clarity and smoothness through the introduction of hardware, consumables and software innovations, such as the introduction of a variety of professional print quality modes.

The HP Indigo series also brings new printing application potential: the new HP Indigo electronic ink can be used; The types of suitable media, such as synthetic materials, metal materials, canvas, black and color media, have been added, and the thickness of the media can reach 550 microns. The HP Indigo electronic ink primer installed on the printing press is used to achieve excellent ink adhesion. In addition, the new version of the revolutionary super customization software HP SmartStream Mosaic 3.0 provides new color mixing capabilities and increased design choices.

The 42-inch HP PageWide rotary printer T490 HD is the industry's higher-capacity digital color duplex printer, with a speed of up to 1000 ft/min (304 m/min) in high-performance mode, an increase of 67%, while the speed in high-quality mode is 500 ft/min (152 m/min).

The new 22-inch HP PageWide rotary press T240 HD has a printing speed of up to 500 ft/min (152 m/min) in high-performance mode, an increase of 25%, while the speed in high-quality mode is 250 ft/min (76 m/min). The T240 HD can print up to 60 million pages per month and is suitable for commercial, direct mail and book printing service providers who need reliable color performance in a two-part environment.

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New High Definition Laser Array (HDLA) technology for HP Indigo 12000 digital printers will be available in 2017. The new HDLA technology has doubled the printing resolution and can provide higher printing quality than before.

All new HP Indigo digital presses and HP PageWide rotary presses can be connected to HP PrintOS for improved print production management. HP PrintOS is expected to be available to customers on May 31, 2016.

At present, more than half of the world's printing equipment manufacturers have abandoned the research and development of equipment based on traditional printing processes and turned to digital printing. Heidelberg and Gaobao, which have fallen into the "China curse", have also joined forces with digital printing pioneers such as Ricoh and HP to grab this new cake.

We have reason to remind everyone that the future of printing must be a digital world. The old printers who are still wallowing in the traditional printing field need to replace the old with the new in terms of knowledge. The young workers who want to find a job in the printing field should beware that what they have learned is not used in the future.

In short, the era of great turbulence in the transformation of the old and the new has begun. You and I will not become a passer-by in the era of digital printing only if we try our best to adapt.