It was founded in 1977 in Israel and acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2001 (over a decade before the technology giant split into HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise).

These aspects are particularly important given the consolidation and diminishing profitability of traditional print segments, such as the decline of newspapers and magazines.

Landa, known as "the father of digital offset color printing," was born in Poland to post-World War II Jewish refugee parents, who later immigrated to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

[3] Starting in 1998, the Hewlett-Packard company began an evaluation of Indigo's technology and found it to be a superior fit to digital printing in commercial uses.

[5] In the following years, HP continued to invest in Israel-based graphic arts companies, acquiring Scitex Vision[6] in 2005 and Nur Macroprinters in 2007.

This product further pushed the break-even point versus offset lithography, thereby enabling more pages to be economically viable on Indigo.

[10] In 2010, the trade magazine Print CEO ranked the company Number 1 in the US high-volume digital press market.

[13] In 2014, HP Indigo began installing digital presses, aimed at the flexible packaging and folding carton markets, respectively.

[14] A key milestone for HP Graphic Arts at drupa 2016 was the introduction of PrintOS, a cloud-based technology to help customers oversee their presses, manage day-to-day production activities, and facilitate connectivity and business growth.

[16] Indigo customers include some of the largest names in both the commercial print world, such as Cimpress,[17] Shutterfly, and Consolidated Graphics (now part of RR Donnelley),[18] as well as in the labels and packaging print industry, such as CCL Industries and large digital newcomers such as ePac Flexible Packaging.

Notable deals from recent years include The independent user's group of Indigo and HP Graphic Arts solutions[buzzword] was founded in 2005.

[22] Dscoop membership open to HP Graphic Arts users throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and Japan.

HP Indigo uses a proprietary, patented technology and a business model that sells both presses and their consumables, as well as services.

This facility assembles frames, feeders, and other components with imaging engines into finished presses, and also serves as the site for manufacturing other operator-replaceable consumables.

[24] In 2014, HP announced that it would expand its ElectroInk manufacturing plant in TUAS, Singapore, by 10 thousand square meters, in 2015.

The newer models also include inline scanners and other features for constant monitoring of output image quality.