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All HP PageWide production inkjet presses have much in common, for example all use the HP Scalable Printing Technology which includes HP thermal heads and inks, but that oversimplifies their similarities and differences. At an absolute minimum, they differ in the applications they are developed for. Many of the ubiquitous PageWide T series and Advantage 2200 presses are targeted at commercial printing applications.

There are also PageWide T series packaging presses, that were initially developed for high-volume digital preprint corrugated production. The first PageWide T Press for packaging was introduced with the 42-in. print width PageWide T400S press on an adapted T 400 Series platform and introduced in 2015. They followed this up with the 110-in. print width T1100S, which was announced in 2015 on a new platform produced in conjunction with Koenig & Bauer. These simplex full-color presses targeted litho-lam top liners for high-volume corrugated packaging. As the demand for digital packaging increased, HP introduced their C500 postprint corrugated press at drupa in 2016 as well.