IPEX 2002 -- Set to Spring Up

If things go according to plan, IPEX 2002 will mark the official debut of the new Indigo under Hewlett-Packard ownership. There will be a certain symmetry in this development, since Indigo unveiled its first digital press at IPEX 1993. This time around the company expects to have more than 15 presses on its stand. Two presses will be notably absent, though, at least in terms of being commercially available products. Benny Landa, Indigo chairman and CEO, told the assembled journalists that the company's larger-format XB2 color press was a very important development, but a mammoth task so it will not be commercialized in the "near future." In addition, he characterized the Ebony black-and-white press as having an "uncertain" future and its development currently being on hold.