HP has unveiled its new DesignJet Z Printer series at Dscoop Asia Pacific 2018.
HP say that the market for large photo merchandising grew seven percent in 2017 with nearly 1.3 trillion photos taken in the same year. The demand for simplicity and unrivaled photo quality is growing, fueling the need for printing solutions that remove bottlenecks and increase time savings.
The new HP DesignJet Z6 and Z9 + Printer series is designed to easily maximize printing performance for amazing photo output. By tightly integrating the materials, hardware and software together, the new printers offer amazing photo quality and print permanence with fewer inks to simplify manageability and reduce costs .
New vertical trimmer is featured on select models to optimize output in addition to other innovative technologies for rapid high-quality production from professional photo quality prints to retailer signage. The result is printing 2.5 times faster and post-production 20 percent faster.
Simple and fast output for high quality vibrant photos
HP DesignJet Z Printer series, both available in 24 and 44 inch formats, are built to give PSPs a competitive edge by enabling the fastest printing capabilities available on the market today. As an industry first, the HP DesignJet Z6 and Z9+ offer a premium option with onboard vertical trimmer for fast and efficient production.
HP Pixel Control offers for the first time management of colours in a truly digital way to help customers embrace new opportunities for colour rich and dynamic printing.
For print service providers who rely on amazing professional photographic quality prints, the HP DesignJet Z9+ printer allows for a broad range of graphics and technical applications.
HP DesignJet Z Printers create amazing image quality.
The DesignJet Z6 Printer series is designed for Geographical Information Systems (GIS) creators and users, print service providers, and retailers who require a simple to use solution for high quality technical and graphics applications with water/fade resistance. The new print series is designed to handle even the most complex files with powerful processing architectures and the Adobe PDF Print Engine.
Specific technologies and features include:
HP Pixel Control: Achieve true to colour prints and an expanded colour gamut with RGB HP Vivid Photo Inks,
featuring chromatic red, chromatic green, and chromatic blue, the i1 embedded spectrophotometer5 and HP
Pixel Control. HP Pixel Control is truly digital colour pipeline designed for outstanding, consistent image quality delivered by controlling every print ready pixel. Combining HP HDNA with HP Pixel Control, users get amazing image quality with just nine inks versus 12 compared to the previous generation HP DesignJet. The new printers also offer HP Professional PANTONE Emulation to match Brand identity colours.
Dual drop technology: Produce prints with clear details and high contrast colour with dual drop technology powered by HP Nozzle Architecture (HDNA) and high definition printheads. The HP DesignJet Z9+ features an
upgradable configuration for a higher gloss output6.
Tools to create: Simplify large format printing with a redesigned poster application in the HP Applications Center7, which also includes Adobe Stock, Unsplash, Vecteezy, and Pattern Design, offers customers access to the necessary tools for creating beautiful, original signs, and posters. The HP Applications Center also embeds augmented reality (AR) technology to ignite the creation of more meaningful and engaging content for print.
Indoor and Outdoor Durability: Create prints with highly stable pigment HP Vivid Photo Inks that provide water resistant, fade resistant prints8 for long term indoor display and, when printed on suitable water resistant
media, outdoor display. HP Vivid Photo Inks gives PSPs the assurance that the prints they make for their customers will last as long as possible.
Security: Take advantage of the industry’s most secure printers with HP Secure Boot, whitelisting, authentication solutions, and HP JetAdvantage Security manager to safeguard printers and data for enterprise and
government.
HP PrintOS: Remotely manage the print production environment.
HP is also announcing enhanced HP DesignJet Z6x10 Printers for a better user and output experience. Boasting a new fresh design, the new printers have new labeling indicating the printer colours to simplify ease of use. The printers have new printheads and Chromatic Red Ink formulation to deliver sharp detail and precise line quality.
Optimized fast and normal print modes for heavyweight coated, polypropylene and canvas to speed up production and enhance image quality. Lastly, the new printers will have 500GB HDD with more virtual memory to process complex and graphic intensive prints.
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