HP today introduced a new portfolio of HP PageWide XL Printers, offering the fastest large-format production printing available in colour and black-and-white(1).
HP PageWide XL Printers do the job of two printers in one single device, providing monochrome and colour prints at breakthrough speeds up to 60 percent faster than the fastest monochrome light-emitting diode (LED) printer(2).
The new printers will enable reprographic houses, print service providers (PSPs), enterprise central reprographic departments (CRDs) and print corners to produce computer-aided design (CAD) drawings and will open new business opportunities with geographic information system (GIS) maps, point-of-sale applications and posters.
“Our large-format printing customers are continually exploring ways to improve productivity, streamline workflow and reduce costs,” said Javier Larraz, director and general manager, Graphics Solutions Business – Large Format Printing Design, HP Asia Pacific and Japan. “The HP PageWide XL Printers announced today deliver what our customers have been seeking for years and will revolutionise the production printing market, offering affordable, high-quality black-and-white and colour output in a single device at the fastest speeds available.”
HP PageWide XL Printers are the first products introduced under the new HP PageWide sub-brand. Based on proven HP PageWide Technology, which currently powers HP Inkjet Web Presses, HP business printers and will be scaled for upcoming HP 3D Multi Jet FusionTM printers, the new portfolio delivers on the announcement made last year, providing low operation costs driven by life-long printheads, high ink efficiency and cloud-based support. The HP PageWide XL Printer portfolio includes:
• The HP PageWide XL 8000 Printer offering high-end production printing at revolutionary speeds up to 30 D/A1-size prints per minute as well as two 775 millilitre ink cartridges per colour with automatic switching and up to six rolls – more than 3,900 feet (1,200 metres) – of media for sustained productivity.
• The HP PageWide XL 5000 Multi-function Printer (MFP) providing small- to medium-sized reprographic houses and enterprise CRDs mid-volume technical document production at up to 14 D/A1-size prints per minute as well as two 400 millilitre ink cartridges per colour with automatic switching and up to four rolls of media to streamline work.
• The HP PageWide XL 4000 Printer and MFP allowing technical work teams and copy shops to produce 8 D/A1-size prints per minute, helping teams increase on-the-job productivity. A speed upgrade option is also available which can produce up to 12D/A1-size prints per minute.
“Changing customer demands have caused us to look for opportunities to address the print needs of new markets, including advertising and communication, in addition to servicing our core customer base of architecture, engineering and construction firms,” said Chuck Wingard, president and owner, Tree Towns Imaging & Colour Graphics. “The HP PageWide XL 8000 Printer will enable us to streamline our workflow with one printer for a variety of high-quality black-and-white and colour jobs at high speeds and will fill the gap between our existing technology to better service our diverse customer base.”
Streamlining large-format printing workflow increases productivity
The production printing market has traditionally been led by monochrome-only LED printers, requiring customers to also operate large-format inkjet colour printers to address colour jobs. The new printers consolidate workflow to deliver mixed black-and-white and colour prints in half the time it would take to manually collate documents produced on multiple printers(3). In addition, a full portfolio of scanning and finishing solutions, including the HP Designjet HD and SD Pro Scanners and new HP PageWide XL Printer accessories, such as the HP PageWide XL online folder, top stacker and high-capacity stacker, enable customers to build efficient end-to end workflows around HP PageWide XL Printers and free up the operator.
HP SmartStream software for HP PageWide XL Printers reduces time spent preparing and processing jobs by 50 percent(4). It also reduces reprints with native PDF management powered by Adobe® PDF Print Engine 3 and offers a true colour print preview with interactive HP Crystal Preview technology to turn operator efficiency into operating profit.
New large-format supplies
HP PageWide XL Pigment Inks increase print quality with crisp lines, fine detail and smooth grayscales that are superior to LED prints(5). HP PageWide XL Pigment Inks also provide dark blacks, vivid colours, and moisture and fade resistance even on uncoated bond paper at high speeds(6).
New HP large-format printing materials up to 40 inches (1 metre) meet ISO/U.S. technical and offset standard page sizes(7) and provide quick-dry, smear resistant prints. New media to accompany the HP PageWide XL Printer portfolio includes HP Universal Bond Paper for technical applications, HP Production Matte Polypropylene to produce roll-up banners, and HP Production Matte, Gloss, and Satin Poster Papers for point-of-sale applications and poster production.
Availability
The HP PageWide XL 8000 series Printers will be available in Australia in September 2015(8).
Other devices in the HP PageWide XL portfolio will be made incrementally available between November 2015 and January 2016 in select countries worldwide. Specific country releases will follow.
Additional information about the HP PageWide XL Printer portfolio is available in an online press kit at http://www.hp.com/go/PageWideXL2015 and at http://www.hp.com/go/PageWideXL. Product videos and updates are available on Twitter and on YouTube.
(1)Printing at up to 30 D/A1 pages/minute and up to 1500 D/A1 pages/hour, the HP PageWide XL 8000 Printer is faster than alternatives for large-format printing of technical documents, GIS maps, and point-of-sale (POS) posters under $200,000 USD as of March, 2015 including 36-inch wide LED printers (printing up 22 D/A1 pages/minute) and wide-format printers based on Memjet technology (printing up to 800 D/A1 pages/hour). Based on internal HP testing of the HP PageWide XL 8000 Printer in line drawing print mode on uncoated bond paper printing in D/A1 landscape.
(2)With a maximum linear speed of 23 metres/minute (75 feet/minute), the HP PageWide XL 8000 Printer is 60 percent faster than the KIP 9900 printer which, at 14 metres/minute (47 ft/minute), is the fastest rated LED printer as of March 2015.
(3)Validated by an internal HP test measuring the total time needed to prepare, print and manually collate a 100-page document with 10 colour pages.
(4)Conclusion based on an HP internal test measuring the time required to extract pages from a 50-page document and print them using several printers compared with using equivalent software
(5)Based on HP internal testing with internal users and external customers, evaluating overall print quality and specific print attributes (gray neutrality, fill area uniformity, line quality and text quality) for output produced with HPXL Printers and LED printers from different manufacturers that represent greater than 50 percent of the annual shipments of LED printers in North America as of 2014 according to IDC.
(6)Based on HP internal testing. Evaluation of prints produced with HP PageWide XL Printers and HP PageWide XL Pigment Ink shows equivalent or better results compared to prints produced with HP 970/971/980 inks that are fade and moisture resistant per ISO 11798 Permanence and Durability Methods certification.
(7)ISO/U.S. technical and offset standards include American ANSI and Architectural page size standards, ISO A technical document standard and ISO B offset page size standard.
(8)Early units of the HP PageWide XL 8000 Printer will begin shipping in July 2015
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