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Quality Comparison of HP Indigo to Offset Lithography
Xiaoying Rong
  DOI :  10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2009.25.1.art00022_2  Published Online :  January 2009
Abstract

HP Indigo press with liquid toners is marketed as a digital press with offset print quality. This study was to compare the print quality of HP Indigo 3500 to Heidelberg Speedmaster CD74. The parameters studied were color gamut, mottle, line resolution, dot quality, and tone reproduction. Printing was done on gloss coated paper with each press. The parameters were used to compare the quality quantitatively. The results showed that HP Indigo 3500 press produced decent print quality. The line and dot resolution of such press were not as competitive as those of conventional CTP offset lithographic printing. Due to the different colorants used in the printing processes, the color gamut produced by HP Indigo 3500 was smaller than the one produced by offset lithographic printing when four process colors were used.

Journal Title : NIP & Digital Fabrication Conference
Publisher Name : Society of Imaging Science and Technology
Publisher Location : 7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151, USA
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Xiaoying Rong, "Quality Comparison of HP Indigo to Offset Lithography"  in Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies and Digital Fabrication (NIP25),  2009,  pp 478 - 481,  https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2009.25.1.art00022_2

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Quality Comparison of HP Indigo to Offset Lithography
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HP Indigo press with liquid toners is marketed as a digital press with offset print quality. This study was to compare the print quality of HP Indigo 3500 to Heidelberg Speedmaster CD74. The parameters studied were color gamut, mottle, line resolution, dot quality, and tone reproduction. Printing was done on gloss coated paper with each press. The parameters were used to compare the quality quantitatively. The results showed that HP Indigo 3500 press produced decent print quality. The line and dot resolution of such press were not as competitive as those of conventional CTP offset lithographic printing. Due to the different colorants used in the printing processes, the color gamut produced by HP Indigo 3500 was smaller than the one produced by offset lithographic printing when four process colors were used.