The HP Indigo press 5500 delivers unmatched quality, reaches higher levels of productivity, and achieves greater profitability—the keys to success in a digital world. Capable of printing over 2 million color pages or more than five million monochrome pages per month, the HP Indigo press 5500 is a truly universal production device. It also combines the look and feel of traditional offset with genuine photo quality.
S/N: 30005442
Unmatched print quality
The HP Indigo press 5500 offers both offset and photographic quality. Digital output has never looked so professional, with features such as:
• Superior HP ElectroInk liquid ink technology
• Wide color gamut, with up to 7-color printing
• Robust color management with HP Professional PANTONE® emulation and ICC profiles
• Special and spot color capabilities, including photo inks—light cyan and light magenta, digital matte and brand colors
• High definition dot placement technology enables 1219 dpi and zero dot gain for superior line work and micro text printing
• Photo color tables
• Best-in-class color accuracy and consistency
Maximum productivity and versatility
The HP Indigo press 5500 offers exciting features that help you earn maximum productivity out of your busy workday:
• Supports 68 ppm full color, 136 ppm in 2-color and 272 ppm monochrome in one press, regardless of media type or thickness
• Continuous printing with multi-feeders and stackers, seamless switching between jobs, proofs and media types
• Adjustment-free, minimum-touch paper handling
• Fast and efficient printing operations allow for a single operator to run two machines simultaneously
Print profitably
The HP Indigo press 5500 is a complete solution designed to help you increase margins by offering:
• Extensive automation, to reduce operator involvement
• Support of a wide range of coated and uncoated substrates, including specialty media
• On-press Fast Ink Replacement (OFIR) system, which eliminates ink replacement downtime when changing colors on-press
• Extendable workflow environment through HP SmartStream products and partners
• Oil recycling system, which reduces the oil consumption and waste
New options for the HP Indigo press 5500
The versatility of the press has been extended with optional enhancements:
• Additional paper feed unit, adding 3 drawers (5,400 sheets) allowing greater range of substrates in the press and reducing reload frequency for long production runs.
• Support for thick substrates up to 450 microns, allowing greater application range, including folding carton jobs
• In-line connection to HP Indigo UV Coater, streamlining production and reducing process handling and overhead costs
Technical Specifications
Press dimensions
Height: 81.7”; Width: 155.5”; Depth: 89.8”
Press weight
5,886 lb.
Printing speed
68 4-color 8.5” x 11” images per minute (two-up); 136 2-color 8.5” x 11” images per minute (two-up);
272 full monochrome 8.5” x 11” images per minute (two-up on 12″ x 18″ sheets)
Image quality
Resolution: 812, 1219 dpi at 8 bit , 2438 x 2438 dpi in High Definition Imaging
HP Indigo inks
Standard 4-color printing: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black
HP IndiChrome 6-color photo printing: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, Light Cyan and Light Magenta
HP IndiChrome 6-color printing Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, Orange and Violet
HP Indigo special effect inks HP Indigo Digital Matte ink
Paper input system
Four drawers: Three drawers with 7″ depth each (1,800 sheets of 80 lb. text each), Special jobs drawer: 1 x 2.5” (700 sheets of 80 lb. text), A total of 6100 sheets of 80 lb. text
Paper output system
Autoduplex/Autoperfecting standard
Main stacking tray with 23.6″ stack height, with job offset stacking (6,000 sheets of 80 lb. text)
Proof tray with 2.36″ stack height (600 sheets of 80 lb. text)
On-board Print Server specifications
Architecture: HP SmartStream On-Board Print Server with integrated Global Graphics Harlequin® on-press RIP with optional expansion capability for additional RIPs that provide scalable RIP power
Software platform: Microsoft Windows XP professional
Hardware platform: 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 processor, 17″ flat screen monitor, DVD-RW/CD-RW, 160 GB system HD 1GB base memory, Image memory disks – two 160 GB drives which provide 320 GB of image memory
Supported formats and standards: Postscript Level 1,2,3, PDF 1.6, PDF/X-1a:2001, PDF/X-1a:2003, PDF/X-3:2002, PDF/X-3:2003, TIFF 6.0, JPEG, EPS, PPML 2.1, JLYT
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Large items will be skidded, banded, and shrinkwrapped at no additional charge if buyers total invoice is over $1000. We also offer UPS & FEDEX packaging at a small charge for smaller items if total invoice is under $1000 or FREE packaging if over $1000. We also have multiple loading docks, forklifts, and ground level access for loading buyers vehicles
Buyers may incur an additional packaging fee for all invoices totaling under $1000 for this auction. Each individual item can be palletized on a standard pallet of $25, packaged in a card board box with packing material for $25, placed on a custom pallet for $50, or custom crated for $100. Contact Boggs Equipment for clarification.