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News Release from: City and West End Solutions | Subject: HP Designjet 9000
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 December 2006
First Prontaprint To Use Low Solvent
Inks With HP
Prontaprint Fulham (UK) was the first Prontaprint franchise to go solvent in October this year when it bought a new HP Designjet 9000 printer, supplied by City and West End Solutions.
Prontaprint Fulham (UK) was the first Prontaprint franchise to go solvent in October this year when it bought a new HP Designjet 9000 printer, supplied by City and West End Solutions After research in to the type of large format output its customers required, it settled on the recently launched Designjet 9000
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 5 Jan 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Tahir Chowdry, the owner and manager of Prontaprint Fulham, said: "When you spend over GBP20,000 on a new printer, you have to be 100 per cent sure that it's the right decision, it's right for your market and vitally it is supplied, installed and supported by a committed reseller, which we have found in City and West End.
We haven't stopped in the short time we've had the printer so it's proved us right.
Our customers are delighted now that we can supply them not only with their short-run digital print but we can offer a more complete service for interior graphics and wide format signage." Chowdry said that the wide range of media available for the HP Designjet 9000 played a role in its decision to buy the printer.
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Predominantly using back-lit and frosted media, in addition to canvas, self-adhesive vinyl and banner materials, it said its customers expect high quality and imagery with a high impact on demand.
Chowdry added: "Many of our customers don't realise what can be done until they see the print samples - with a team of three in-house designers, we can put the samples together for them and that opens their eyes to what can be achieved." The HP Designjet 9000 was launched at Sign UK and Digital Expo earlier this year.
It has 64-inch print bed, a set of six-colour pigmented inks, 195mb RAM and 720 dots per inch (dpi) x 720dpi resolution, with a take up reel as standard and an HP high-speed dryer as an optional extra.
It is said to provide a production print speed of 16 square metres per hour at maximum resolution and 20 square metres per hour at 540dpi x 720dpi.
City and West End added that the printer's low solvent inks are part of a system that includes air purification and guidelines for use that help make HP low-solvent ink printing safe, productive and easy.
City and West End Solutions managing director, Doug Gilbertson, said: "We understand that the buck doesn't stop at the installation.
We know the wide format print arena, it's what we specialise in and having supplied the various vertical markets - CAD, graphics, signage, for instance - with large format print systems for over 10 years now, we, like many of the manufacturers we represent, are committed to it.
Suppliers have to see the big picture in order to succeed and being customer-centric includes the print service providers and their customers and if a suppliers' ethos doesn't include this then they'll be left behind.".
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