The future of digital printing is about non stop production according to HP, which is starting to sell robots suitable for its Indigo and PageWide presses. It has previously collaborated with Dutch company MoviGo. Now it will sell and support the range of AMRs, including those developed for Indigo’s B2 presses.
Senior vice president and divisional president of HP Industrial Print Haim Levit says: “As digital print scales to meet new demands, our customers are no longer buying presses alone. They’re investing in outcomes: predictable productivity and speed at scale. At Dscoop Edge Rockies, we’re showing how our commitment to Nonstop Digital Printing delivers those outcomes by connecting press innovation, intelligent workflows, and AI driven reliability across the entire production lifecycle.”
The event has opened in Colorado with a host of updates to key Indigo machines, enhancements to SiteFlow and its Nio AI enhancement for PrintOS. This also involves further developments with MoviGo AMRs for moving sheets to and from presses and to finishing areas.
Bluetree has been among those adopting robots to move materials around its vast Rotherham factory. Joint CEO Adam Carnell says: “MoviGo has fundamentally transformed how movement works inside our factory. Instead of designing our processes around fixed constraints, we now have a solution that feels limitless and genuinely tailored to the needs of high volume, high mix print manufacturing. Adopting robotics early has allowed us to scale smarter, improve flow, and stay ahead as a modern, data driven print business.”
The MoviGo range includes AMRs designed for Indigo’s pallets and now for rolls for both the high volume PageWide inkjet presses and its labels and packaging machines and for moving large format sheets.
There are updates to both the SRA3 and B2 Indigo press. The 7K+ fits the non stop printing approach with features for greater automation and includes an Eco print mode. This uses thinner ink layers to reduce consumption of an expensive raw material. One of the first users reckons that half its jobs will be suitable for Eco mode.
Indigo 100K users can add a 120K value pack to enhance both hardware and software and achieve increased uptime and reliability with a user interface that is more intuitive, easy to navigate and better for troubleshooting according to one of the first companies to use it.
The emphasis however is more on the tools that enable the non stop digital printing. This includes the commercial release of HP’s Nio AI application which was trialled last year.
