Friday, 17 September 2021 HP Gives Users Power to Meet Tighter Deadlines With the release of the HP DesignJet Z6 Pro and Z9+ Pro it marks 30 years since the first DesignJet. The new designs offer PSPs and GIS analysts the highest professional photo quality and precision and security features that lead the pack. Users can now achieve 93% Pantone coverage this gives you 26% more gamut and produces prints with the image quality of a 12-ink printer with nine inks. You get extra features like the High-Definition Nozzle Architecture (HDNA) printheads and the dual drop technology, to help visible grain and eliminates the need for light coloured inks. The DesignJetZ9+ Pro, offers the widest colour gamut in its category, if you are looking for a professional photo quality printer. You also have the option to include the HP Gloss Enhancer Upgrade Kit to produce gloss uniformity. The HP PrintOS mobile app lets PSPs If you want to take more control of your print operations, it lets you. You can monitor performance and react to issues and share media pre-sets remotely. It also has the HP PrintOS Service Centre application which is a smart cloud-based solution to enable you to gain a single, real-time view of all ongoing service cases, with accessible updates. The printer, for precise maps that gives print sharp contour lines and text with close attention to keeping data secure, is the HP DesignJet Z6 Pro. The Adobe PDF Print Engine enables excellent transparencies and layer reproductions coupled with HDNA printheads and HP Pixel Control to deliver the high precision and smooth gradients with distinct shades of colour which are required for printing complex maps. The DesignJet Z6 Pro is the world's most secure large-format printer, that promises high data protection through encrypted communications and Access Control List. It boasts features such as the HP Connection Inspector, HP Secure Boot, and Whitelisting to ensure the high network protection. Both products enhance efficiency with fast media handling, spindle-less and automatic roll feed. The DesignJet Z6 Pro prints twice as fast on plain paper at the same quality while the DesignJet Z9+ Pro allows you to print up to 18% faster, with better quality, on satin photo media and 46% faster on canvas. Also on offer are three new HP PageWide XL Pro printers that assist retail PSPs and repro-houses to respond quickly to their customer demands and meeting tighter deadlines. Users will be able to leverage new short-term applications including the potential to print on boards, card stock, and paper from A2 to B1, and thickness up to 10mm. Both the HP PageWide XL Pro 5200 and HP PageWide XL Pro 8200 have print speeds up to 20 D/A1 pages/min, and 4300 ft2/hr (400 m2/hr) and 30 D/A1 pages/min, and 5300 ft2/hr (500 m2/hr) which helps meet short turnaround time. The PageWide XL Pro 8200 can print mixed outputs of CAD drawings and presentation boards and both printers deliver full projects two to three times faster than previously. You can also expand your print applications into two-sided, short-term retail posters. Designed to help boost profits and cut costs, both products save up to 50% preparation and finishing costs. The compact XL Pro 10000 has fast printing speeds of up to 700 m2 (7500 ft2) or 1,000 B1 posters per hour, and prints on different sizes materials, including paper, boards, card stock and cut-sheets, with the capability to deliver quick results with instant-dry prints on compatible substrates. It also features the first HP large-format auto sheet feeder and versatile stacker, providing seamless end-to-end cut-sheet workflow. HP – a partner in sustainability The new DesignJet portfolio and PageWide XL Pro 10000 printer are all rated as ENERGY STAR 3.0 compliant and EPEAT registered. The new DesignJet Z Pro printers are made of 30% recycled plastic, using over eight 16.9-oz (0.5-L) bottles worth of ocean-bound plastic, and are fully compatible with large format FSC®-certified papers, a range of recyclable HP media and free, convenient take-back program for certain HP media. Both new portfolios are fully compatible with HP Eco Carton Cartridges, achieving up to 80% reduction in plastic. The outer carton of Eco-Carton cartridges can be disposed of through local cardboard recycling Inks for the PageWide XL Pro 10000 printer are UL ECOLOGO® Certified and verified for Nordic Swan Ecolabel printing companies. PageWide XL and DesignJet prints are recyclable, returnable, or non-hazardous and safe for disposal. Availability The new HP PageWide XL Pro series are available now and the new HP DesignJet Z6 Pro and Z9+ Pro will be available on October 1st, 2021. 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