Lightning Source Builds Color Books-on-Demand Effort with Expansion in HP Indigo Digital Press Fleet

Lightning Source’s HP Indigo presses are the backbone of the firm’s color print-on-demand operation, producing short-run color books and color covers for monochrome books, as well as photo books for the firm’s new photo specialty operation.

“Working with more than 4,500 different publishing companies – including the world’s most respected book publishers – it is clear that the time for color in the books-on-demand market is now,” said J. Kirby Best, President and CEO of Lightning Source. “HP Indigo technology has provided us an exceptional color manufacturing solution that meets, or exceeds, the needs of our publishing partners. We turn books around in twelve hours or less from order to ship. We needed a reliable, exceptional quality color solution. With HP, we have achieved that.”