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News Release from: Hewlett-Packard | Subject: HP Designjet 4500 Printer
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 December 2005
Unattended Digital Colour Production Now
Viable
HP's Designjet 4500 Printer series is now available, making unattended colour production viable and cost-effective claimed the company.
HP's Designjet 4500 Printer series is now available, making unattended colour production viable and cost-effective claimed the company The latest addition to the HP Designjet large-format printer family combines high-throughput colour printing at low running costs, as well as copying and scanning
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 13 Mar 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The printer also has an extended set of job accounting and facility management features, including AEC, MCAD, GIS and reprographics, added the company.
The Designjet 4500 is said to deliver colour line precision and image quality, whilst achieving fast print, copy and scan speeds.
Available as a printer with two media rolls and optional stacker, as a large format scanner, or as a fully featured print, scan and copy multifunction printer, the series features simultaneous processing and printing to shorten turn-around time to improve cost-efficiency and profitability, claimed HP.
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Mark Ellis, HP's large format business manager for the UK and Ireland,said: "We are driving the adoption of colour and giving our customers more opportunities to deliver high-impact communications in a wide range of formats." Repro Graffix, a London-based reprohouse providing a range of technical printing services is enjoying the benefits of the new large format printer.
The company's sales director, Roy Clark, said: "With the HP Designjet 4500, we are more productive; it's like having another person working for you.
We use the time better and can be more competitive." Equipped with HP Double Swath technology, the Designjet 4500 Printer is claimed to takes 0.17ml of ink to produce a standard colour line drawing covering an area of one square metre.
In addition, 100 A1 size black and white or colour drawings can be printed in one hour.
The series is also claimed to deliver up to 2,400 x 1,200 optimised dots per inch (dpi) and plus or minus 0.1 per cent line accuracy, which is optimal for users who need precise designs, plans and line drawings.
The Designjet 4500's roll feeds each hold up to a 175m long roll and the machine switches between different roll widths and media types automatically.
With full capacity of 350-metre media, the printer can be left unattended for at least six hours without needing to change the roll, said HP.
The new extra-large HP 90 775ml black ink cartridge provides sufficient capacity to print 1,500 A0 line drawing plots.
The optional stacker closes the unattended printing workflow by flattening and holding up to 200 A0 plots.
When equipped with the HP Designjet 4500 Stacker, the Designjet 4500 requires no attention for at least four hours whilst producing 200 plots, added the company.
The Designjet also features HP's embedded web server, which enables remote printer management for current job preview, and printer and supplies status reporting and alerts.
Hp said that is allows for improved job accounting, including job classification and has HP Autosend for remote usage reporting, facilitating pay-per-use contracts.
The system provides 5mm margins on all sides of a plot to eliminate the need for trimming of CAD prints and allows for an optional third-party in-line folding device.
The new extra long roll of the HP Universal Bond Paper (80gsm) can be used for for high contrast colour prints and crisp line resolution in black, added HP, whilst HP's super heavyweight Plus Matte Paper (210gsm) is said to be an affordable coated paper that dries instantly and is suitable for dense plots such as maps.
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