The Truepress JET 560HDX secures the 2026 EDP Award for commercial inkjet innovation

Validating a new standard in digital production

At the recent FESPA exhibition in Barcelona, the European Digital Press (EDP) Association handed its highly respected 2026 EDP Award to the Screen Truepress JET 560HDX. Competing in the fiercely contested "Commercial Printing – Web-fed Printer under 550mm" category, the continuous-feed press stood out for its ability to bridge the persistent gap between offset quality and digital agility. The award was formally accepted by Juan Cano, Business Development Director, and Yoshinari Otani, Executive Officer of Screen Graphic Solutions. For those of us tracking the gradual, sometimes agonizingly slow transition from traditional offset to high-speed digital commercial print, this recognition awarded to @Screen validates a specific engineering philosophy: eliminating production bottlenecks rather than just increasing sheer speed. The EDP Awards are evaluated by a consortium of technical experts from 20 leading European trade publications, making this one of the most rigorous independent validations a manufacturer can receive.

The chemistry behind the recognition

What exactly convinced this independent panel of technical experts? The answer lies heavily in the proprietary chemistry developed by the Japanese manufacturer. The Truepress JET 560HDX operates with the new generation of high-density, water-based Truepress Ink SC2. In practical terms on the factory floor, this means operators can print directly onto standard offset coated papers without applying a primer or pretreatment. Historically, the requirement for primers added cost, complexity, and maintenance headaches to inkjet operations. By removing this step, Screen has streamlined the process significantly. When you combine that material flexibility with a native resolution of 1200 x 1200 dpi and running speeds up to 150 meters per minute, the economics of mid-run commercial print shift dramatically, allowing printers to move jobs that previously required traditional offset plates directly to digital workflows.

Automating out the labor shortage

Screen Graphic Solutions has clearly read the market signals regarding labor shortages across the printing sector. The hardware architecture of the 560HDX includes fully integrated inspection and adjustment systems that monitor color reproduction and print quality in real-time. This level of automated web control—driven by continuous flow-through inkhead technology that prevents nozzle clogging—reduces the reliance on highly specialized pressmen. This is a critical operational advantage in 2026 as print shops globally struggle to recruit and retain technical talent. The press’s ability to handle a 560 mm (22-inch) web width allows for two-up landscape letter production, effectively maximizing throughput for demanding direct mail, transactional print, and book publishing applications. Generating nearly 81,000 two-sided letters per hour is a metric that resonates strongly with high-volume commercial environments.

Solving the high-speed drying dilemma

High-speed inkjet has often struggled with the physics of drying heavy ink loads without warping the substrate or consuming massive amounts of energy. Screen tackled this engineering challenge by implementing a newly designed carbon drying mechanism that efficiently removes water from the SC2 inks. This system not only ensures perfectly dry prints immediately off the press—facilitating near-instantaneous finishing and converting—but does so with a lower energy penalty. In an era where print service providers are heavily scrutinized for their energy consumption and carbon footprint, this efficiency addresses the environmental and operational cost criteria that the EDP judges prioritize. The focus on sustainability is further supported by the reduction of setup waste, a hallmark of advanced digital systems compared to their analog counterparts.

The Truepress JET 560HDX is a masterclass in pragmatic innovation, proving that the future of commercial print relies on material versatility and automated quality control rather than just raw speed. Will the elimination of primers finally push the remaining offset loyalists to adopt continuous-feed inkjet for their mid-volume jobs? Follow The Paper for daily news, market signals and key updates from the global paper, corrugated and packaging industry. — Sigue toda la actualidad del sector en www.thepaper.ai