Hewlett-Packard

The new 65,000 square foot, Internet-enabled print production and distribution facility is in Hayward, CA.

The new press was beta tested at eight sites across Europe and the Americas, including Grandville Printing Co. in Grandville, MI.

Some people said this was going to be the "Inkjet Ipex," but much like drupa 2008, the reality remained more promise than product.

The thermal inkjet unit uses HP Scalable Printing Technology to integate four-color digital printing into traditional offset web press lines.

A postcard printed on recycled paper made from seeds, a marketing catalog featuring hundreds of unique machetes and a stunning photo book with images from African ceremonies in Chile were among the winners of the HP Indigo Digital Printing Contest.

The HP T200 is a 20.5-inch wide, full-duplex, four-color press in a single engine for high-speed, high-volume production printing.

Those claiming that Ipex is an inkjet show will have good justification for the claim. Few though are ready to ship at the show.

The HP T200 Color Inkjet Web Press offers a lower-cost and smaller, 20˝ width compared to the existing T300 model.

It had a total net revenue of $30.8 billion, up 13%, and Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) revenue increased 8% to $6.4 billion.

CGX installed the HP T300 at its Denver-based Frederic Printing company last year to produce textbooks, as well as maps, engineered drawings, saddle-stitched books and other products.