Full-colour HP T-300 lands at Blue Star Sydney

Strategic agreement with HP sees the arrival of the first of a new generation of high-speed inkjet presses into one of the industry’s leading printers.

Hailed as an integral part of the company’s transforming Agile strategy, the early installation of the T press will give Blue Star “first step advantage” in what is looming as a new technology race.

According to Chris Mitchell, managing director of Blue Star, the press “will fundamentally reconfigure the commercial printing industry. The Agile software will be linked with HP’s high-speed inkjet technology to provide customers with a new level of flexibility in the manner in which print services can be delivered, better matching the emerging customer needs evident in the market.”

The first installation at Blue Star’s Silverwater plant in Sydney will be completed in July, with a subsequent installation the following quarter. Additional installations are expected over the coming years to meet the market demand.

STOP PRESS: The information published on the purchase of an HP Inkjet High Speed Web Press by McPhersons Printing (below) did not come from HP and is in fact incorrect.  HP does not disclose or speculate about future business dealings.

The Australian market is proving key to HP in its efforts to establish the ground-breaking inkjet system. So far Blue Star is the only printing company that has made the decision to go full colour with the T-technology. However, PMP’s book printer, Griffin Press in South Australia along with Victorian-based book printer, McPherson’s, have both signed on for mono versions of the lighting fast technology.

The first installation of the T-300 in the region went into China earlier this year.
The T- series inkjet presses have a scalable web width up to 762 mm (30 inches0 with a web speed up to 121 meters per minute (400 feet) imaging at 1200 x 600 dpi. They use a bonding agent for stabilising the image. Combined with high-end software, such as Agile, the press is able to print fully variable colour images at full speed.