The new continuous-feed inkjet web press, launched on 20 February at the Hunkeler Innovation Days trade event in Lucerne (20-23 February), uses HP’s High Definition Nozzle Architecture (HDNA), which was first announced for HP’s inkjet web presses in February 2015. HDNA has a native resolution of 2,400 nozzles per inch.
It will be priced at around 15% less than the faster HP PageWide Web Press T240. It joins a number of other presses in the T series.
The T235 prints at a maximum speed of 122m/min in performance mode and 61m/min in quality mode, which is around half the maximum speed that the HDNA technology is rated for and around 25% slower than the T240. The machine will be upgradable to the T240 specifications.
"We found an opportunity at a lower end where we could offer a lower-speed entry-point for some of those print service providers that may now be entering the market," said PageWide director of marketing and business development David Murphy.
Speaking at an HP press briefing at Hunkeler, Murphy added that he believed HP had fulfilled its commitment to the market made at the same event two years ago with the development of the PageWide portfolio.
Murphy also announced that the T200 series now comes with an optional dryer expansion module for heavier coverage applications, which should lead to a 10% increase in drying efficiency.
HP has also entered into an agreement with Pitney Bowes at Hunkeler to develop a new native Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) controller for its HP PageWide web presses and Pitney Bowes' IntelliJet printing system.
HP used the briefing to discuss a number of global milestones on its PageWide and Indigo presses, including its customers having now printed 210 billion pages on PageWide presses and it having more than 400 installations of the Indigo 10000 worlwide.
Machinery also being shown on HP's Hunkeler stand includes the T240, an HP Indigo 12000 and an HP Indigo 50000 digital press, the first installation of which completed this month in the US.
At last year’s Graph Expo trade event, US, HP unveiled four new PageWide web presses, the T370 HD, the T380 HD, the T390 HD, and the mono T390M HD.
