A3 Printers & Prints

HP Unveils Imaging and Printing Devices, Solutions and Services for Enterprises

2008-04-20T20:55:00.002+01:00

HP Press Release April 2008

HP have announced a broad expansion of its imaging and printing portfolio for large businesses. The company's latest offerings help enterprises manage, secure and simplify their imaging and printing environments and improve workflows to reduce costs and enhance productivity.

The new offerings include six HP LaserJet printers, an enterprise-class scanner for document capture, three access control printing solutions, four printing services and an accreditation, certification and test program for HP's software solution development partners.

Customers using the six new HP LaserJet devices can improve their adherence to security and compliance regulations in addition to increasing productivity. The product rollout includes:

The HP Color LaserJet CM6040/6030 multifunction printer series ( MFP ) is HP's top-of-the-line color laser MFP designed to maximize office workgroup productivity with a feature-rich package that includes A3 printing, advanced finishing options, robust security and the HP Easy Select Control Panel. Priced starting at $7,999.( 1 )
The HP LaserJet P4510 Printer series is HP's fastest single-function black-and-white laser printer. A new monochrome toner formulation enables lightning-fast print speeds of up to 62 pages per minute ( ppm ). Priced starting at $1,599.( 1 )
The HP Color LaserJet CP6015 Printer series, HP's most powerful, productive and cost-effective color printer series to date, is designed for general office needs as well as the creation of exceptional color collateral with ColorSphere toner. The series provides the versatility of A3-size printing and supports the widest range of media. Priced starting at $3,899.( 1 )
The HP LaserJet P4015/4014 is a value-packed, single-function black-and-white printer with security capabilities that include private printing options. The devices ensure fast, secure performance across the network. Priced starting at $1,099.( 1 )
The HP LaserJet M9040/9050 MFP, designed for demanding departments of 30 to 50 users, improves business processes with high-volume, cost-effective printing with copying and digital sending from the HP Easy Select Control Panel. Priced starting at $9,999.( 1 )
In addition, HP expanded its document capture portfolio by introducing the HP Scanjet N9120 Document Flatbed Scanner. As HP's first dedicated enterprise departmental-class scanner, the fast A3 flatbed scanner offers 50 ppm and versatile paper handling with an automatic document feeder. The HP Scanjet N9120 easily integrates with HP Web Jetadmin print management software and includes Kofax Virtual ReScan Professional.

New toner formulation reduces energy consumption

HP's newly enhanced low-melt toner formulation reduces energy consumption. The toner, available with the new HP LaserJet P4015/4014, is designed to melt at lower temperatures, yet deliver print quality consistency at faster print speeds.

As a result, it requires 15 percent less energy to reach fusing temperature - enabling a 10 to 15 percent improvement in printing system energy consumption per page.( 2 )

( 1 )Estimated U.S. street prices. Actual prices may vary and are subject to change without notice.

( 2 )Compared to its predecessor.

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Oki C9650XF oversize A3 colour proofing solution

2008-03-25T23:40:00.005Z

Press Release - February 2008

OKI Printing Solutions unveils new colour proofing solution with launch of the C9650XF.

Further strengthening its presence in the proofing and short-run digital printing environments, OKI Printing Solutions has today released the new C9650XF. This fully-functional digital print solution will address the requirements of printers that need to provide high quality content and layout proofs on oversize A3 media.

The C9650XF is a combination of OKI’s new C9650 specially configured to work with EFI’s Colorproof XF software. This powerful combination takes care of the colour management needs of the graphics art market allowing operators to work faster and save costs in producing quality proofs and short run digital prints.

EFI Colorproof XF is the leading proofing solution and provides a powerful digital proofing system with a flexible modular structure that adapts to users’ every need. The package comprises a cross-platform EFI Colorproof XF Server, Client Option and Printer Module specifically developed for the C9650. With extra output and product options, the solution can grow to meet the businesses needs of digital, commercial and hybrid printers, prepress providers, publishers, creative agencies and photographers.

The C9650XF is a high performing oversize A3 colour printer that prints up to 19 colour A3 pages per minute and 21 mono A3 pages. In A4, this increases to 36 colour pages and 40 mono pages per minute. All paper trays can handle oversize A3 with the multi purpose tray having outstanding media support of up to 330gsm.

The C9650XF is distributed exclusively through Colourgen Ltd, the leading specialist distributor of digital wide format colour printing solutions. Colourgen has a wealth of knowledge and experience in the industry and offers extensive pre and post sales support to resellers. Alan McLeish, Senior Product Marketing Manager for OKI Printing Solutions
states: “The new C9650XF enhances our position in the graphic arts market by offering an entry level A3+ colour printer that can be used for producing quality proofs and that can also be used as a highly competent short run device to fulfil those quick jobs that just cannot be done otherwise. It comes with all the support of our distributor Colourgen.”

The new C9650XF will be available through OKI Printing Solutions’ authorised resellers from 04 February 2008 and pricing starts at £3699 (RRP) for the C9650XF Lite.

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For further information please contact:
Sharon Entwistle / Scott Clarke
The Whiteoaks Consultancy
Phone: +44 (0) 1252 727 313
Email: sharone@whiteoaks.co.uk

Nadia Nizar / Anuja Vora
OKI Printing Solutions
Phone: +44 (0) 1753 819 819
Email: nadia.nizar@okieurope.co.uk / anuja.vora@okieurope.co.uk

Notes to editors:

C9650XF key features summary:
Models available:

C9650XF Duplex and network version with XF Server v3.1 incl. unlimited number of Clients + 1 OKI 9650 Multilevel driver

C9650XF Lite Duplex and network version with OKI 9650 Multilevel driver only

C9650XF Pro Duplex, network, hard disk and 4 x 550 sheet media trays with XF Server v3.1 incl. unlimited number of Clients + 1 OKI 9650 Multilevel driver + Spot Color.

C9650XF Pro Lite Duplex, network, hard disk and 4 x 550 sheet media trays with OKI 9650 Multilevel driver only

Handles Paper sizes from A6 to oversized A3 (328mm x 457mm) and banners up to 1.2m long.
Media weight up to 330gsm from multipurpose tray, 188gsm from the duplex tray and 64 to 216 gsm from all other paper trays
Max paper capacity 2880 sheets
Print speeds up to 36ppm for colour printing, 40ppm for mono, with a fast time to first print of 10.5 seconds for colour and 9 seconds for mono
OKI Printing Solutions innovative LED single-pass print technology to handle a range of media types

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Epson Stylus Photo R2400 Printer

2008-03-24T17:35:00.003Z

A perfect introduction to professional photographic printing

Discover the difference Epson UltraChrome™ K3 ink makes. Transform colour and black & white photos with 3 black inks. Produce consistently superb results that last a lifetime, on media up to A3+ size.

Set your creativity free, whether you’re a photographer, artist, designer or even run a photo lab. The Epson UltraChrome K3 ink set produces a very wide colour gamut and includes three black inks for superb black & white performance. Results are stable in just 30 minutes and last a lifetime, from glossy photos to borderless A3+ posters. Keep control from image selection through to final printout.

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QE II in Dry Dock - A3 Print

2008-03-24T17:27:00.004Z

A3_CUNARD LINER QUEEN ELIZABETH II. Pictured in Southampton King George V dry Dock, December 1996. Original photo made on a Hasselblad 500CM camera. Negative scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X5.
Photo; Jonathan Eastland/AJAX.
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HP Design Jet Z2100 and Z3100 Printers

2008-03-08T22:02:00.002Z

(L-R) HP Design Jet Z2100 and Z3100, 8 and 12 ink 24inch wide photo printers with embedded spectrograph and intelligent ink management systems.

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Force 9 gale, Bay of Biscay - A3 Print

2008-03-08T21:44:00.002Z

A3_1965 - Force 9 gale, Bay of Biscay; sea breaking over the deck of a tanker - Original image shot on a medium format Yashica twin lens reflex camera using Ilford HP3 film.
Photo; Jonathan Eastland/AJAX.
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HP 9180 Desktop 8 ink Photo printer

2008-03-08T21:31:00.002Z

HP 9180 - Desktop 8 ink Photo printer said to deliver exceptional image quality and the best photo permanence on the market with HP Vivera pigment ink technology. Uses HP’s third-generation grey ink, more neutral than before, manifesting smooth tonal transitions and detail. It can print A3+ size in 1.5 minutes.

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Symmetry of flight - A3 Print

2008-03-08T21:09:00.007Z

A3_SYMMETRY OF FLIGHT - Original shot on Kodachrome 25 film with a Nikon F and f4.3, 300mm Nikkor lens, transparency scanned on a Hasselblad Flextight X5.
Print is made on smooth matt fine art heavy weight paper on an Epson printer.
Photo; Jonathan Eastland/AJAX.
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10th HP LAB University 2007

2008-02-29T22:43:00.005Z

This article was first published in The British Journal of Photography on 15th August 2007. This publication is an edited version of the original.

The 10th Anniversary HP Lab University was held this year in sunny Portugal. A record 460 journalists from the techie media world crammed the conference rooms of the Corinthia Lisboa Hotel to hear HP engineers, scientists and consultant experts give the low-down on Hewlett-Packard's latest line-up of goodies and where they think the future of digital imaging is headed.

Printing, printers and printing paper are what HP are best known for in Europe, but the company is involved in the production and development of several other facets of digital imaging, from cameras to scanners aimed at large and small businesses, the photo finishing trades and consumers. According to HP senior vice president and general manager Bill DeLacy, “HP has led the imaging and printing market for many years, and this event is a celebration of that leadership,” Throughout , there was a lot of corporate emphasis on the current product line-up and previewing 'future innovations likely to take the market by storm'.

The forum formula is simple; round up as many guests as you can persuade to attend, put them under one roof and keep them occupied with short and punchy IT power point lectures and mix with plenty of opportunity for hands-on product testing and one-to-one interaction with hosts. The process begins at hotel registration where journalists are handed a goody bag and offered a review sample of a brand new HP compact camera featuring the largest touch-screen monitor yet seen on any digital capture device. Aimed squarely at the more expensive end of the enthusiast consumer market, the camera's innovative shape and all metal, black anodised body is certain to be a head turner.

For two days, guests were encouraged to attend at least five of the diverse ten lecture sessions on offer, having first been entertained to a colourful auditorium overview of HP's forward thinking. A clue was volunteered by printing guru Ross Allen who suggested print quality was now as good as it needs to be. Lecture subjects ranged from Advancements in Ink, Analogue to Digital Photography, HP Edgeline Innovation, Inks and Toners to Inside the Camera and The Future, relaxed affairs encouraging questions from the floor, followed by on-the-spot or out and about hands on reviewing. It is the kind of well organised (lots of young clip-board toting helpers attired in bright red HP Lab golf shirts.) event designed to fuel a feel-good factor toward the host and its products.

FINE ART QUALITY

In the world of ink-jet and laser printing, competition for the largest market share is fierce, with manufacturers continuously claiming one or more feature advantage over the other. Ink-jet printing, probably the area of most interest to photographers enaged in the production of large scale fine-art prints has seen a steady improvement in technical quality in recent years with the introduction of multiple hue pigment inks, printer head development, improved software and media substrate offerings. To this end, HP launched its Photo Influences program in 2006 in association with photo agencies such as Magnum and headlining photographers whose works are much in demand through internet portals and city based galleries.

One such is the celebrity photographer Douglas Kirkland whose 72 year old enthusiasm for photography knew no bounds during his colourful presentation in a session on Analogue and digital.

In between what was clearly a hectic schedule of appearances cajolingly but purposefully and deftly managed by his wife Francoise.

Born in Canada in 1935, he moved from New York where he was assistant to Irving Penn, to become a staff photographer for Look magazine based in Holywood from the early 1960s. By the mid-seventies he was freelancing for the best known magazines of the era, LIFE, Paris Match and Stern. Many of the top performing screen actors and actresses, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and others were captured by the discerning Kirkland eye. Today, his work is much in demand, made possible, he says, by the advent of the digital world.

"The best possible prints used to be made using the dye transfer process. It's expensive. In fact, without a sponsor, it would not be possible to show or realise my work."

Francoise reminds me of the many exhibitions Douglas has been asked to stage and of books in prepration. "The production logistics for several large scale projects simply could not have been handled the old way. In late 2006 a publisher wanted 500 images to edit for a book coming later this year. We had a month to select and scan originals and make the presentation. Now, 2-3 large print exhibitions are in preparation in New York and at the Academy of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. The prints are over four feet wide and there are a 100 of them!"

Says Douglas, "And there was Cinema Moments in Rome last year; the same huge problem." Several prints from this exhibition decorated the corridors and conference rooms of the Corinthia, and they were first class. Now he is working toward another monumental tome of his life's work which will feature over 450 images. In between all this activity and an upcoming month's assignment in Australia, the Kirkland enterprise is also busy filling individual orders for prints of the stars he has photographed over the years.

"The ink-jet medium was a great discovery for me, especially for b+w.", he enthuses. " We decided to avoid making special editions of 16 X 20 inch prints. I would rather concentrate on top quality for every print. I'm involved most days in the production and print process. We have an Imacon Flextight scanner which is really quick and a delight to use; I love the materials we use on the big HP printer.

"Digital compels me to organise books and exhibitions; the exploitation of existing material which would otherwise never have seen the light of day.", he muses, before being gently reminded by Francoise he is late again for another stand-up forum performance.

The big printer to which douglas refers is an HP Designjet Z2100 using 8 HP Vivera pigment single ink technology with new built-in colour management technologies and an intelligent ink delivery system. It can print on substrate weights up to 500gsm at 2400X1200 dpi from an ink palette which adds light versions to the main four colour CMYK system. This 24 inch printer is also one of the industry's first with an embedded spectrophotometer, greatly simplifying accurate colour-matching. The 12-ink HP Designjet Z3100 adds yellow, red, green and blue to the other eight inks of the 2100, has the same media specifications, enabling professionals to save time and effort as they easily and consistently produce the colours they have envisioned, and, say HP technicians, exquisite, museum-quality photographs with archival fade resistance of more than 200 years when printed on a range of HP photo and digital fine art media. They cost £1991.63 and £3052.08 including VAT from mainline suppliers like Jigsaw (0870 730 6868).

Of course, it was impossible to test the last claim but my hastily produced test prints (accidentally torn up by Francoise!) of one famous Kirkland image on the Z2100 still lacked the smooth mid-tone transitional quality ever present in a conventional bromide print. Host technicians were at pains to explain that perhaps the paper quality selected (by them) lacked the capacity to produce what I was looking for or even that someone unknown to them had fiddled with the image files on the connected Mac - what me, Fiddle? Later, Douglas volunteered to send me a freshly made print from LA; when it arrived, I was impressed. Printed on a smooth fine art matt paper, it looked for all the world like a beautiful gravure print. Perhaps, after all, there was some substance in Ross Allen's comments.

NEW DIRECTIONS

And if there is, then it comes as no suprise to learn that HP's future developments lie in endeavours to speed the process of consumer and professional graphics digital image delivery, while tweaking software and in-camera firmware. It showed several all-in-one scanners and printers, with on board CD/DVD read-write and universal card slot facilities with rapid output times as well as a range of new flatbed reflective and film scanners incorporating HP versions of digital ICE.

A new range of HP Photosmart Express stand-alone kiosk ink-jet based mini touch screen printers to rival dye-sub and thermal imaging customer operated machines turned out my handful of prints and a back-up CD in a few minutes. Once the ink had dried, the aesthetic quality on a high gloss paper comes another step closer to that of conventional silver based machine prints, though there is still some way to go with the ink bronzing problem. The HP Photosmart Studio is a total in-store photography experience for customers, providing the ability to design and produce photo albums, calendars and other photo products; an HP Photosmart Microlab Printer plugs straight into a retailer’s existing lab infrastructure to produce more than 700 prints per hour.

The 10th Anniversary Lab didn't end here. There was much corridor talk of software and about how this will enable manufacturers like HP to bring to market high performance point and shoot cameras with polymer lenses, their aberrations fixed in the signal processing. For now however, it's not only red-eye reduction that features on the menu of the new HP R937 8mp camera with its huge 3.6 inch touch screen. Pet-eye fix (what a target!), slimming and HP touch-up offer users an electronic make-up box of tricks for subject enhancement before tagging images for e-mail on the display, using HP Photosmart Share. A host of other features are offered on the menu of this interesting camera with its Fujinon 3X optical zoom; it's just a pity HP designers put so much emphasis on style at the expense of ergonomics.

ends.

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A3 Printer Manufacturers

2008-02-29T21:29:00.003Z

Major A3 Printer Manufacturers
& their website links

Brother
http://www.brother.com/

Canon
http://www.canon.com/

Epson
http://www.epson.com/

Hewlett-Packard
http://www.hp.com/

Kodak
http://www.kodak.com/

Konica Minolta
http://www.konicaminolta.com/

Kyocera
http://global.kyocera.com/

Lexmark
http://www.lexmark.com/

Oki
http://www.oki.com/

Panasonic
http://www.panasonic.com/

Ricoh
http://www.ricoh.com/

Sharp
http://www.sharpusa.com/

TallyGenicom
http://www.tally.com/

Xerox
http://www.xerox.com/

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