HP has embedded spectrophotometers in its new HP Designjet Z2100 and Z3100 photo printer series, allowing fully automated colour calibration and media profiling.

 

November 9, 2006: HP has embedded spectrophotometers in its new HP Designjet Z2100 and Z3100 photo printer series, allowing fully automated colour calibration and media profiling.
The new HP Designjet Z2100 and Z3100 printers are the first photo printers with this technology, which claims to reduce waste and provide improved colour reproduction on large-format prints and proofs. These two printer series are ideal for graphic designers, pre-press/proofing specialists, social wedding photographers, digital fine artists and other print professionals who require consistent and accurate colours on large formats.
A key element of consistent and accurate colour management is printer calibration, media

profiling and colour maintenance. To maintain accurate and consistent colour, daily calibration is highly recommended by professional users. This can add up to six to

eight hours per month. The embedded spectrophotometer in the HP Designjet Z2100 and Z3100 printers allows much of this work to be done automatically by the printer. The printer will automatically handle the manual work of printing, drying, preparation for measurement, colour patch measurement, as well as computing and updating printer firmware, freeing the user to do other tasks.

 

Supplied with each printer is HP’s Color Center software, which automates essential tasks like controlling and tracking all colour devices for variations in temperature, humidity, environmental changes and printing behaviour – including changes in hardware through wear and tear, inks and media. The addition of an embedded spectrophotometer in these new printers will dramatically reduces that burden, as well as minimising the time wasted in correcting unintentional reading errors.
The HP Designjet Z2100 Photo Printer series are 8-ink large format printers, while those in the HP Designjet Z3100 Photo Printer series are 12-ink large format printers. Both series use HP Vivera pigment inks, which combine high image quality with outstanding durability. The new printers can simulate more than 80% of Pantone colours and offer print speeds of 4.2 min/page with A1-sized colour images on coated paper. For full product details visit www.hp.com.au.