New Large-Format Color Printer by OKI

Okidata announced C8800 Series printer, a digital color large-format printer producing up to 11x17 in. printouts in compact design.

The new printer feature greater media control and flexibility, it allows printing banners 11x 47.25 in. which fits fine for architectural renderings and engineering design documents.

The printer is fast; it uses printer toner, produces 26 pages per minute in color and 32 pages per minute in black-and-white at 1200x600 dpi resolution.

OKI C8800 Series printer is built using digital LED Technology and Single Pass Color Technology. The latter allows make products requiring fewer moving parts.

The estimated retail price of the C8800 Series starts at $2399. The printer will be available in North America in June 2007 through Okidata authorized providers.

HP Goes Wide

After drawing much attention to CM8050 and CM8060 high-end multifunction printers, HP goes further with the Edgeline Technology.
The company introduced a wide-format printer DesignJet T1100, addressing the need of technical users such as architects, engineers and geologists. DesignJet T1100 uses same printheads as CM8060, but instead of having multiple printheads spanning the whole width, it prints a 1-inch band along the page.

The printer is capable of making line as thin as 0.04mm with an accuracy of 0.1%, compared to 0.2% of industry average. Also, DesignJet T1100 uses special matte black, which provide a better match with 4-color inks, and gray inks for smother gradients.

As usual, the print speed depends on printing task and paper quality. HP DesignJet T1100 produces a plain A1 page in 35 seconds in draft mode, 2.8 square meters per hour in best quality on glossy paper.

The printer features a fast controller that processes files independently from the computer.

New HP Printer Eases Print and Preprint

Hewlett Packard announced a new wide-format photo printer Designjet Z3100ps GP. This model extends the model range of HP Designjet Z professional photo printers and feature easy integration into designing and publishing process. Aside from color management system, a property of all Z series printers, HP Designjet Z3100ps GP implement new HP DreamColor Technology. This technology is actually a complex of means of color management, providing accuracy and stability of color rendering for various digital devices.
The new model of HP Designjet Z series is firstly designed for design offices, marketing agencies, preprint offices and printing-works. New raster processor Adobe PS3/PDF features high usability and performance, while HP Advanced Profiling Solution with display calibration system allows experiment print on various media.
The built-in spectrophotometer based on X-Rite i1 Colour Technology automatically analyzes colors, calibrates them and instantly creates ICC-profiles. This drastically boosts print process of multicolor mock-ups and 24” and 44” color tests.
A free HP ProPrint module for Adobe Photoshop enables to achieve required colors at first try. This module is developed for Adobe Photoshop CS2 and is compatible with all HP Designjet Z series professional photo printers.
HP Designjet Z3100ps GP uses HP Vivera pigment inks 12-color print system.
Designed for workgroups, HP Designjet Z3100ps GP has a built-in web-server that allows task and queue management for maximum performance. The server is capable of processing task in multi-user environment due to 256 МB of RAM and 10 GB of flash memory.

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