Global Graphics’ Harlequin RIP has been chosen as the engine inside HP Production Pro, the new digital front end (DFE) designed to drive all HP Indigo digital labels and packaging presses.
The Harlequin RIP already provides the RIPping power for the DFE that is used across the entire HP Indigo commercial press range.
The WS6800 will be the first press that comes optionally equipped with the HP Production Pro. This will later be extended to the 8000, 20000 and 30000 presses. These presses produce labels, folding cartons, flexible packaging and shrink sleeves, and require a powerful digital front end to produce the performance and versatility that converters print shops need.
Gary Fry, Global Graphics’ CEO, commented, ‘We are delighted that the Harlequin RIP, as well as our partnership approach to engineering and support, has so impressed HP Indigo in the commercial print space that they are now expanding its use into their labels and packaging presses.’
‘We have thousands of customers today whose commercial presses use the Harlequin-based HP Production Pro,’ said Roy Faigenbloom, HP Indigo product manager. ‘Harlequin offers the needed processing power to drive labels and packaging workflows and Global Graphics has proved itself to be a very responsive technology partner.’
HP Production Pro is built on the field-proven foundations of Production Pro with the Harlequin RIP, Esko Color Engine and PrintOS Cloud connectivity. The Production Pro provides a single point of control to the press operator to streamline and manage the print workflow. It allows extra performance to be added to HP Indigo digital presses when required as it offers the capability of scaling up the RIP hardware up to 8x the basic configuration to increase capacity even further and control multiple presses from a single server.
