HP is entering the secure printing market with a suite of security and brand protection solutions, called HP Indigo Secure, and its first digital press for this sensitive sector, the HP Indigo 6K Secure.
The HP Indigo Secure Suite and HP Indigo 6K Secure Press include hardware, software, media and inks for security printing and brand protection based on HP Indigo LEP technology and partner solutions.
These solutions are designed for governments, financial institutions and other organizations to produce currency, personal identification documents, fiduciary documents such as tax stamps or gambling and other secure printed materials. They are also designed for brands to combat counterfeiting.
The hP Indigo Secure solution allows for the creation of security elements, such as hidden printing with inks that are invisible to the naked eye, variable data printing (unique identifiers, QR codes), intricate patterns such as microtext, guilloches or cloud-connected tracking and tracing elements. And these elements can be combined to further enhance the security of prints and products.
With seven ink channels, the hP Indigo 6K Secure Digital Press produces these elements of identification and complexification of documents and packaging designed by HP Indigo Secure and by solutions of other brands.
Based on the HP Indigo 6K narrow web platform, the press was designed in collaboration with Jura, an Austrian and Hungarian based group specializing in high security graphic arts.
"The solution from HP Indigo and Jura opens new doors in security printing. The security features, workflow and overall concept were developed as a single digital printing solution that prints a highly protected product in one pass. The variety of substrates, inks and features cover a wide range of products to be protected. Product authentication is easy on three levels (public, expert and forensic)." says Barna Barabas, general manager of product development at Jura JSP.
Each press has a sort of fingerprint that allows tracking and verification of the source of the print.
