The Edmonton-AB based commercial printer with a reputation for outstanding print quality and a work ethic to “get it right” that is rivalled by few, is celebrating their 40th year in business with the acquisition of Canada’s first HP Indigo 12000HD B2-format Digital Colour Press. The HD Imaging System delivers 30 percent smaller ink dots, allowing for smaller and more uniform dot placement, with a virtual resolution of 4,876 dpi, providing higher line screens, including FM screening.

This will be the first B2 format digital press in Western Canada, providing nexGen Grafix with a platform for entering a new era of high-quality, digital-offset printing on sheet sizes up to 20” x 29”.

Some of nexGen’s staff pictured with a banner announcing their special anniversary “gift.”

Highlights of the HP Indigo 12000HD include:

• 7 Colour Press, with white, clear, fluorescents and PANTONE colours
• Ability to print on virtually any substrate; synthetics, canvas, metallized & more
• Breakthrough print quality, up to 290-line screen, and FM screens
• HP SmartStream Mosaic & Collage software for customized variable printing, creating thousands of unique variations from one original design

The unmatched versatility of the Indigo 12000HD will strengthen nexGen’s position in the greater Edmonton area, and open new opportunities with image quality that equals and even surpasses offset.

“For the past number of years, the trend in run length has been downward and high-speed offset equipment is not best suited for those types of projects” states Henk DeJong, President of nexGen Grafix. “The Indigo 12000HD will accommodate those jobs more economically and with better turnaround times, while at the same time creating additional offset capacity. Having investigated other options in the B2 digital arena, the HP Indigo 12000HD, with its very significant world-wide installation base, superb quality, and upgradable platform soon came out as the only right choice.”

Along with the recent installation of extra bindery equipment, the acquisition of the HP Indigo 12000HD is intended to set the company well on its way into the next forty years of print.