HP Indigo 12000 Digital Press
A B2 digital offset press with extensive capabilities
Big ideas come to life
The 75 cm format HP Indigo 12000 Digital Press produces the widest commercial application range with superior print quality, high productivity, and wide versatility. Built on the bestselling and proven HP Indigo 10000 Digital Press, the press brings breakthrough printing capabilities that extend unique, high-value opportunities to grow business.
Any commercial job
An easy fit for offset printers, the HP Indigo 12000 Digital Press offers a solution for the digital printing of any commercial application on any substrate. Use the full sheet to print canvas wall art, high-impact posters, folders, oversized books, specialty products, and more.
The leader in print quality and colour
Enabled by HP Indigo’s liquid ElectroInk technology and unique digi tal offset process, HP Indigo digital prints are of the highest quality. Using dozens of software and hardware innovations, the press delivers the smoothest and sharpest prints in the industry, matching or even exceeding offset quality. HP Indigo ElectroInk has the widest digital colour gamut, reaching up to 97% of PANTONE® colours and using up to 7 ink stations on press. A 5th ink station is standard. Breakthrough colour matching tools ensure perfect colour accuracy and consistency.
Even higher productivity
Printing B2-sized sheets in colour at up to 4600 per hour, the press is capable of producing over two million colour sheets per month. Print monochrome in duplex at 4600 sheets per hour. Sophisticated automation tools boost production efficiency and uptime.
Widest media range
One Shot extends substrates to canvas, synthetics and metallised media. Print on substrates from 70 gsm to 400 gsm and 75 to 450 microns in thickness—including coated, uncoated, coloured and dark papers, and paperboard for folding cartons. Use on-press HP Indigo ElectroInk Primer to expand printing possibilities on off-the-shelf papers.
The choice of brands
Brands use HP Indigo for its high print quality, just-in-time production, and ability to engage customers by customisation and personalisation with unique variable data printing capabilities.
Reinvent print production
HP PrintOS is a print production operating system with apps that help you get more out of your HP Indigo presses and simplify and automate production. Use PrintOS to continuously improve operations. Access the open and secure cloud-based PrintOS platform anytime, anywhere.
Any commercial application
Leading print quality
Digital offset colour technology. HP Indigo’s liquid electrophotography (LEP) technology, using HP Indigo ElectroInk, delivers crisp linework, attractive images and smooth vignettes with a very thin ink layer that gives uniform gloss between the ink and substrate.
Setting new quality standards. Innovation in software, hardware and supplies takes print quality to new levels. Advances include a superfine adaptive colour profile, optimised calibrations for perfect colour uniformity, tailored print modes and a microsphere-based blanket.
New benchmark for print quality. HP Indigo HD Imaging system, a new high-definition writing head, doubles print resolution for the highest smoothness on both photo and highend commercial applications. Surpass offset quality at 1600 DPI with high LPI screen sets up to 290 LPI, and create art-gallery quality prints with high detail reproduction. *
Wide colour gamut. Use the 5th ink station to take advantage of special inks and spot colours. Emulate PANTONE® colours on press using CMYK or HP IndiChrome’s 6- or 7-colour process. True spot colours can be ordered from the HP IndiChrome Ink Mixing Service.
* HD Imaging System is available as a Value Pack option on the HP Indigo 12000 Digital Press
Freedom to innovate and create unlimited applications
Specialty media printing. One Shot transfers all colour separations in one pass onto the substrate with perfect registration, expanding printing capabilities to specialty substrates. Produce photo canvas, plastic cards, synthetic products and high-end metallised prints.
Digital ink priming. Use HP Indigo ElectroInk Primer to meet any customer need and print on an extended range of substrates including off-the-shelf offset stock and specialty papers.
Unique inks. HP Indigo ElectroInk Fluorescent Pink makes a bold statement and glow effects under UV light for cards, promotional collateral, fashion applications, specialty products, publishing and more. Make an impact with HP Indigo ElectroInk White on dark, black and transparent media. Use light cyan, and light magenta for professional photo portrait quality.
Unlimited designs. Automate the creation of millions of one-of-a-kind designs with HP SmartStream Mosaic’s variable design technology, now including colour shuffling capabilities for sophisticated, high-value products.
Smart automation for high productivity
Make the best use of press time. Benefit from up to 40% higher productivity using Optimizer, the on-press production efficiency assistant. The artificial intelligence algorithm optimises the printing queue for non-stop printing using Indigo’s unique proof while printing capability.
Automated print quality control. Automatic Alert Agent performs real-time print quality error detection while printing, reducing waste and increasing productivity. The system finds and highlights inconsistencies between the digital file and the printed sheet.
Colour automation. Use automated colour management tools and the inline spectrophotometer to easily meet colour standards and achieve colour accuracy and consistency across Indigo presses, sites, and time, as well as between Indigo and offset.
High-speed monochrome. Print monochrome at rapid speed of 4600 duplex sheets per hour for cost-effective and just-in-time production for publishing and direct mail needs.
Enhanced Productivity Mode. Increase colour throughput by 33% and consume 25% less energy per page. A pre-flight solution by Enfocus can automatically select suitable jobs.
Production management and workflow
Powerful DFE. HP SmartStream Production Pro Print Server 6 is the industry’s most scalable and powerful print server. It offers automated prepress tools to optimise production including imposition and marks creation engines, an advanced Colour Management Module (CMM), and image enhancement features.
Finishing. Direct2Finish allows automating the bindery by creating and delivering JDF instructions to enabled finishing devices. This allows faster turnarounds, lowers labor costs and prevents errors. HP Indigo partners with leading finishing vendors to drive cost-effective end-to-end production. PrintOS. Print Beat provides visibility to press performance to drive continuous improvement to print operations.
PrintOS Site Flow efficiently manages any number of jobs per day, even hundreds or thousands. Automate, simplify and streamline files submission with PrintOS Box. Use PrintOS Composer for heavy VDP processing including sophisticated HP SmartStream Mosaic campaigns.
