Hewlett Packard has shown its superiority in the printing industry over the last decade with fantastic home printers and printing products for small to medium-sized businesses. Hewlett Packard has also just released a series of commercial color printers that also feature the latest HP technology. Crystal clear colors, super-fast printing and convenience are only a few of the features and benefits you’ll get when looking into Hewlett Packard’s commercial printers.
Commercial printing involves high-volume printing in a variety of environments, such as industrial book printers, quick-print businesses and services, direct mail and graphics, as well as photography printing. Hewlett Packard has printers to meet all of these needs and has recently released several new commercial printers and developments that are going to change the standards for the way customers view commercial print products and printers.
Among its recent introductions, Hewlett Packard has announced the release of the HP T200 Color Inkjet Web Press, the HP 7500 Digital Press, several HP Scitex large-format printers, the HP Designjet Z5200 and the HP SmartStream workflow solution.
The HP T200 Color Inkjet Web Press
Made for high-volume printing, Hewlett Packard introduced the T200 Color Inkjet Web Press as a lower-cost, smaller 20.5-inch printer designed for mid-to-large sized print service environments and others who need full-color inkjet web printing. For example, you’d see the T200 working in production mail environments, newspaper rooms and short-run book printing organizations.
The T200 Color Inkjet Web Press can maintain speeds–when color printing–up to 200 feet per minute and when printing with its monochromatic settings–up to 400 feet per minute.
The HP T200 supports a variety of media, including uncoated offset stock, newsprint, groundwood and others. One of the other features that make this HP printer unique is that the printer applies a colorless liquid before other inks are applied so as to improve optical density and color adhesion to the paper.
Because of the colorless ink, prints turn out water- smudge- and highlighter-resistant. In short, this robust commercial printer from HP can perform a variety of print jobs and will work for small-to-mid-sized production environments.
HP Indigo 7500 Digital Press
Breakthrough technology at its best, the Hewlett Packard Indigo 7500 Digital Press is designed for use for print service providers, such as photography and photo services. The HP 7500 delivers unmatched photographic print quality; the printer uses HP’s ElectroInk, which is a technology capable of controlling color consistency via ink charging, producing emulsion of offset printing.
Not only does it claim to offer superior print quality over other commercial printers, but a study conducted by the Wilhelm Imaging Research has shown this to be true. With the WIR study, pages printed with HP Indigo were found to have an impressive permanence rating of 45 years, much longer than brands like Kodak or Fuji.
The HP Indigo 7500 can print 120 full color pages per minute and nearly double that for monochrome or two color pages. In addition, the printer comes with a new Vision System, a feature designed to perform automatic calibrations and diagnostics, giving print service providers the advantage of having maximum uptime during operations.
HP Scitex Large Format Printers
HP Scitex large-format printers are not only fast and efficient, but also environmentally-friendly and green. The HP Scitex line includes odorless latex inks and two UV-curable printers. These features only make the printers more environmentally-friendly in comparison with solvent inks, but also increase quality for print signage and other jobs you need to get done for your clients.
In addition, service providers can ensure fast printing as they can both load, print and collect media simultaneously without the need to wait for one or the other to be completed.
Other Hewlett Packard Scitex commercial printer features that make the printers stand out from other products is the fact that the Scitex printers provide extra uses for working with white ink when an upgrade kit is purchased, the printer can take on tasks that require double-sided prints, matte/gloss covers and full bleeds. You can also print on just about any type of media with the HP Scitex printers, including rigid and flexible media, and heavy, thick and long materials as well.
HP DesignJet Z5200 PostScript Printer
The DesignJet Z5200 PostScript printer–made for copy shops, quick-printing firms, small commercial print businesses and photographic print purposes, eliminates many of the manual tasks that commercial printers face and automates tasks that make it easy to streamline the printing process.
For example, commercial print services can work with and prepare almost any file format, edit, preview and save changes to photos and images the printer uses.
You can also automate the sending of print jobs to the DesignJet Z5200; the printer allows you to submit several files at a time and patiently wait for them to be printed instead of requiring you to wait for one print job to finish before starting a new one. In addition, you don’t need to worry about printer backlogs as the DesignJet Z5200 PostScript comes with a built-in 160 gigabyte hard disk so that you can feel at ease when tackling large file sizes and projects.
The HP SmartStream Workflow
Designed to increase productivity up to 20% for commercial printing environments, the HP SmartStream is essentially a workflow solution designed to centralize the processing of printing and file management tasks.
For instance, you can manage print jobs, color profiles and fonts all from the HP SmartStream interface. The program is essentially designed to be an all-in-one for a variety of markets and environments to increase productivity by acting as a hub for file management, automated print job routing, and acting as a print server to manage several digital presses simultaneously.
All things considered, Hewlett Packard has certainly contributed to the commercial printing environment with its commercial printers and presses. Technologies like the T200 Color Inkjet Web Press are improving industry standards and upping the ante for other major brands who wish to remain competitive in the marketplace.
The HP Indigo T500 is actually designed and poised to replace other small-to-midsize offset presses. Hewlett Packard has numerous commercial printers on the market and, with the success of the T200, the Scitex and others, it’s safe to say that HP will continue to cater to this industry.