HP Designjet 110plus Printer

As the name suggests, HP’s Designjet 110plus printer is essentially meant for people in the design profession. Any printing assignments involving intricate artwork, color, thin-lined architectural designs, or digital paintings with minute details, which any other printer will make a mess of, can be comfortably delegated to Designjet 110plus.

The printer has the capability to take on jobs of variety of sizes, from postcard to poster, because of three independent paper paths that are built into its scaffolding. Users find it very rugged and sensitive at the same time, as it can face the rough and tough of rigid print media that are 300 gsm thick, and is equally at ease with coated, glossy, bright white, proofing matte and proofing semigloss sheets.

Measuring 41 inch X 16.3 inch X 8.7 inch, the device weighs 48.5 pounds and is surprisingly light for the functions it performs. An inbuilt memory of 64 MB remembers the next set of sheets it has to print, so a high-speed computer does not really overwhelm it. The brain of the printer is the 16Mhz Impala 2 ASIC processor, which manages all the activities of the device without any sweat.

The HP Designjet 110plus printer carries a tag of USD 1,044.99.

Read more about this versatile printer from HP, here.

CLP 770ND – Workgroup Printer From Samsung

Ridgefield Park, New Jersey-headquartered Samsung Electronics America has released a new workgroup printer in the market, christened CLP-770ND.

The printer costs USD 999.99. A professional-grade color laser printer, the device is geared for environments where high-volume, bulk printing is the norm. According to the company release, the machine is capable of printing at the rate of 33 pages in one minute, in both black/white and color. The cost to the company per page has been worked out to 9.3 cents for one color page, and 1.8 cents for one black/white page. The toner cartridges that go in the device costs USD 174.99 for color and USD 124.99 for black/white.

The printer comes with an inbuilt 800Mhz CPU, 256MB of RAM and an optional 80GB hard disk option. Its network connectivity capabilities can eliminate the need to connect a printer each to every workstation, and makes it especially attractive to a battery of workstations placed in a room or hall.

The device comes with application softwares such as SyncThru and CounThru, which are tools for IT managers who can use them to remotely manage it.

Read more about the latest printer from Samsung, here.

Hewlett Packard C7280 save £200, now only £54.99

The versatile, high-performance HP Photosmart C7280 All-in-One offers lab-quality photos, laser-quality documents, with copy, scan and fax functionality. Users have the ability to remain highly productive with an automatic document feeder, automated photo tray, two-side print capability, built-in wireless and Ethernet connectivity. With one touch buttons and blazing print speeds, the HP Photosmart C7280 All-in-One makes it easy and fast to produce effortless photos and documents in the home or office.

RRP: £259.99 | You save: £205.00 (78%)

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Two New Next-Gen Inkjet Printers From Epson

Long Beach, California-based Epson America announced its next generation of ink jet printers. The Epson Stylus Pro 7900 and Epson Stylus Pro 9900 are both aimed at professionals in the creative and media industry with demanding print quality requirements.

The company claims that these two printing devices are capable of providing “exceptionally fine photographic blends and transitions and highly accurate highlight-to-shadow detail”. This has been made possible through some breakthrough R&D in high-density pigment chemistry that has led to the development of UltraChrome HDR ink technology and a trademarked AccuPhoto HDR screening technology.

The 7900 model can print pages measuring 24 inches, while the 9900 model can accommodate pages measuring 44 inches width. Both roll or cut sheet media can be inserted into these devices. A rotary cutter for roll papers can cut any media type, including canvas and fine art papers.

The printers have an optional provision for in-line spectrophotometer – called the SpectroProofer, developed in partnership with X-Rite – which can be used in commercial proofing applications.  The printer head is a ten-channel, high-precision MicroPiezo TFP that can produce resolutions of up to 2,880X1,440 dpi.  Switching to black ink (from the black ink cartridge) happens automatically and can also be managed through the front control panel.

The Stylus Pro 7900 is expected to be available for USD 3,995; while the Stylus Pro 9900 has a end-user price tag of USD 5,995. Both the models are targeted to hit the shelves in November 2008.

Read more about the printers here.

The HP D2545 – A Spartan Printer

If quality-printing of a very high-standard is not your objective, and you are happy with getting a printout that is very functional, and yet drives across your point, then look no further. The inexpensive (USD 45) HP DeskJet D2545, without any bells and whistles, is just for you.

The D2545 is truly a Spartan printer designed for Spartan needs. Not for the D2545 such fancy features like memory card support or automatic paper-type sensor or camera card slots or networking / copying / faxing buttons, or even networking capability. Further, though the company equates its printout quality to “laser-like” in its ad hype, we found the output to match DeskJet quality at best. If you are not too-discerning and / or your presentation is not too demanding, your Photoshop printout will look very pleasing indeed. And if you are not looking at the watch all the time, a single page will take around 19-22 seconds on average to print and land on the out-tray. For USD 45, as I said, it is both inexpensive and functional.

HP touts the D2545 as an environment-friendly machine on three counts: about 83% of the product is built from recycled material, its black cartridges are made with 75% plastic, and the model’s packaging is 100% recyclable. The only hiccup is the cost of the cartridge. Costing USD 30, the cartridge is two-thirds the price of the printer itself!

Read more about HP’s DeskJet D545.
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