Color-Logic certifies HP Indigo 6900 digital press with silver Ink

Color-Logic has certified the HP Indigo 6900 digital press with silver ink for label and packaging applications.

Color-Logic has certified the HP Indigo 6900 digital press with silver ink for label and packaging applications

The HP Indigo 6900 provides enhanced capabilities to label and package printers by extending the application range of pressure-sensitive labels produced using its technology. Coinciding with its launch, HP has made ElectroInk Silver commercially available. This new ink is said to open up a range of metallic colors by using it as a base layer, as well as other potential uses, such as replicating foils. To support ElectroInk Silver, HP has developed a special binary ink developer (BID) with a customized design and special materials to cope with issues arising when running the conductive elements found in ElectroInk Silver inside the electric field present in the print engine.

Mark Geeves, director of sales and marketing at Color-Logic, said: ‘Silver ink on the HP Indigo 6900 press, when used with the Color-Logic Process Metallic Color System, yields great advantages for brands requiring labels or shrink film packaging. Combining the two technologies produces as many as 250 metallic colors and a virtually unlimited variety of decorative effects for enhancing and protecting products.

‘The Color-Logic system and decorative effects software, together with the HP Indigo 6900 digital press, add the “wow factor” to labels and also enable brands to implement a myriad of security enhancements. Metallic variable data, plus first-level security features, are available at no additional cost to brands, since all such features may be implemented at the design stage and require no further pressroom or finishing work.’