According to the company the new press will compete head-on in the 2-up monochrome toner replacement market currently dominated by Infoprint, Kodak, Océ, Screen and Xerox.

The T200 is a 61m/minute colour, or 120m/minute mono, 520mm-wide (2-up) machine capable of producing 23 million colour or 46 million mono pages per month, and uses the same thermal inkjet technology as its bigger brother the T300, which is a 760mm-wide, 120m/minute and 70 million page per month machine. The T300 was unveiled at Drupa in 2008.

“The biggest innovation is the single-engined duplex full-colour paperpath,”said HP Inkjet Highspeed Production Solutions general manager Aurelio Maruggi.

The T200 is being demonstrated live on stand AB150 in Hall 12 duplexing without the use of turner bars, which the firm claimed provided extremely tight front-to-back registration in a small (2.1×5.8m) footprint.

The vendor would not reveal pricing, but said “the variable costs will be inline with those of the T300 and the hardware costs inline with competitive machines”.

The T200 is being shown as a technology demonstration at Ipex, although HP said that it might announce details of the first beta customers later in the show.

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