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HP Indigo Division, formerly ''Indigo Digital Press'', is a company that develops, manufactures and markets digital offset printing presses, proprietary consumables and workflow solutions. Founded in 1977, it was an independent company until it was acquired by HP in 2001. They have offices around the world, with headquarters in Nes Ziona, Israel. Customers of HP Indigo solutions include commercial printers, photo specialty printers, and label and packaging converters to print applications such as marketing collateral, photo albums, direct mail, labels, folding cartons, flexible packaging, books, manuals, and specialty jobs. The company claims to have an installed base of "over 4000 customers and over 6000 presses."〔http://www8.hp.com/us/en/commercial-printers/indigo-presses/overview.html〕 The ability of digital presses to print without films and plates enables the use of variable data such as text or images, such as in personalized direct mail applications, or in photo albums, which are usually printed in copies of one. Digital presses also make short-run, just-in-time printing, cost-effective. In this way, digital presses have changed the economic models for print. ==Technology and Portfolio== HP Indigo uses a proprietary, patented technology and a business model that sells both the presses and the consumables. In the HP Indigo printing process, a laser creates the image on a dynamic imaging foil (called a PIP). Proprietary ink (called ElectroInk) adheres to the plate and is transferred to a heated blanket, before being printed on a substrate. The small size of the particles ensures that the printed image does not mask the underlying surface roughness/gloss of the paper, bringing Indigo printing closer in appearance to conventional offset lithography, with semi-transparent inks that adapt to the surface of the substrate. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Indigo Digital Press」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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