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Top HP Designjet Z3100 Photo Printer Reviews
Luminous Landscape wrote a review of the
HP Designjet Z3100 and said: "While the price may appear to
be higher than the competition, when you factor in the built-in
profiling spectrophotometer, 40GB hard drive and web server,
along with 12 inks, 4 simultaneous blacks, and a Gloss Enhancer,
the value for the money is clearly there. And in any event, as
anyone doing production or large format printing well knows, the
cost of the printer itself is ultimately found to be small
compared to the eventual cost of the paper and ink which it uses
over time."
HP Designjet Z3100 News Release Summary:
Transforming the color experience for photography and graphics
professionals
HP is changing the way professional photographers, digital fine
artists, graphic designers and prepress professionals create
large-format images with the unveiling of the HP Designjet Z2100
and Z3100 Photo Printer series.
The eight-ink HP Designjet Z2100 and 12-ink Z3100 both provide
an automated color management experience that enables
professional photographers to consistently print museum-quality
color and black and white photos up to 44 inches wide. The HP
Designjet Z3100 uses a 12-ink HP Vivera pigment system,
including the HP 70 Gloss Enhancer and HP Quad-Black inks to
create rich black and white prints and achieve truly neutral
grays under different lighting conditions. Both printers also
deliver unprecedented photo permanence – up to 200 years – on a
wide variety of media.(2)
Graphic professionals can now create color profiles in minutes
instead of hours and receive exact color matches throughout the
printing process. Traditionally complex color management has
been streamlined with the first embedded spectrophotometer on a
large format printer, based on X-Rite Eye-One color technology
and integrated with an HP Color Center interface.
The HP Designjet Z2100 and Z3100 Photo Printer series are also
the first large-format printers to leverage HP’s scalable
printing technology to achieve the optimal balance between speed
and image quality.
HP is expanding its media portfolio with 11 new offerings for a
total of 30 options, ranging from photo and digital fine art
papers, to backlit, indoor banner and Tyvek.
The new HP Designjet Z Photo Printer Series
expands HP’s professional printing portfolio for creative
professionals with an automated, intuitive experience in image
reproduction. Leveraging HP Vivera pigment ink technology
(introduced with the HP Photosmart Pro B9180), together with new
built-in color management technologies and an intelligent ink
delivery system, the HP Designjet Z Series produces exquisite,
museum-quality photographs – print after print.
The industry’s first-ever embedded spectrophotometer greatly
simplifies accurate colormatching for the HP Designjet Z2100
8-ink and HP Designjet Z3100 12-ink printers bringing to life
true, vivid colors with the touch of a button. Professionals
ultimately save
time and effort as they can easily and consistently produce the
colors they envision, time
and time again.
Using HP Vivera pigment inks, the HP Designjet Z Photo Printer
Series ensures
unparalleled photo permanence – 200-plus years lightfastness(1)
– on a wide variety of
HP media. There are also 11 new HP media offerings to round out
the total portfolio to
more than 30 choices, further expanding flexibility and creative
opportunities.
As the first large-format printers (24” and 44”) to employ HP’s
Scalable Printing
Technology, the HP Designjet Z Photo Printer Series provides
superior reliability and
optimized ink consumption. Even switching between matte and
glossy printing is now
possible without swapping ink cartridges and wasting time and
ink to reconfigure the
printer.
Key features and benefits
• The HP Designjet Z Photo Printer Series delivers a
streamlined, automated color
experience with museum-quality output.
• The HP Designjet Z2100 8-ink photo printer is an ideal
solution for photographers,
graphic designers, architects and commercial printers in need of
high-quality, largeformat
prints and proofs. The HP Designjet Z2100 features HP Vivera
pigment inks that
include Three-Black inks.
• The HP Designjet Z3100 12-ink photo printer, ideal for
creative professionals in
photography, digital fine arts and pre-press, offers extended
capabilities for museumquality
color and black-and-white prints on a wide variety of media,
including fine art
and glossy media. The HP Designjet Z3100 features additional HP
Gloss Enhancer,
and HP Vivera pigment inks including HP Quad Black inks.
Consistent and accurate color with first-ever embedded
spectrophotometer
• Featuring the first built-in spectrophotometer with
GretagMacbeth/X-rite Eye-One Color Technology, the HP Designjet
Z Photo Printer Series economically delivers consistent,
accurate colors across a wide range of media.
• Industry-leading color gamut, with more than 80 percent
Pantone coverage(2) and full
support of main pre-press color standards such as Gracol and
SWOP, enables
brilliant, life-like photos and fine-art prints with excellent
color rendition and fine
gradations within the color space.
• Matte black, photo black and mid- and light-gray HP Vivera
pigment inks are designed
for true gray neutrality to produce smooth transitions, higher
black optical density and
smooth uniform color on glossy and matte media – without
swapping ink cartridges.
• HP Gloss Enhancer with the HP Designjet Z3100 is used on photo
media (with the
exception of matte-finish papers) to produce images with uniform
gloss from highlights
to shadows, and eliminates bronzing as an image quality
issue.(3) In addition, the HP
Quad-Blacks significantly reduce metamerism issues in black and
white prints.
• Consistent, reliable results over the life of the product – HP
Vivera pigment inks are
carefully designed to work with other elements of the printing
system to provide
reliable, stable performance and to help prevent ink and
printhead nozzles from
clogging inside the printer.
Produce exquisite long-lasting prints with HP Vivera pigment
inks
• With 8- and 12-ink options, the HP Designjet Z Photo Printer
Series offers precise, longlasting color optimized for a variety
of photo and fine-art papers that provide superior
fade resistance and durability. Images can last more than 200
years(1) when using HP
Vivera pigment inks.
• Print matte and photo black inks without swapping ink
cartridges, eliminating wasted
time and ink to reconfigure the printer.
• HP Vivera pigment inks offer a choice for customers who need a
broader solution
beyond dyes, offering professional image quality and
long-lasting photo permanence,
accurate and consistent color reproduction, and smooth
transitions and detail across a
wide range of paper.
• HP’s industry-leading portfolio of media offers creative
professionals more than 30
options, including photo, fine art, proofing, bond and coated
papers, as well as
canvas, vinyl, scrim and banner media options. The HP Designjet
Z Photo Printer Series
can print with or without borders.(4)
• HP Designjet Z2100’s matte black, photo black and light gray
HP Vivera pigment inks
are designed for gray neutrality to produce smooth transitions
and black optical
density on glossy and matte media – without changing ink
cartridges to reduce ink
waste.
• HP Designjet Z3100 with HP Quad Black (matte black, photo
black, gray and light
gray) delivers beautiful black and white prints with true gray
neutrality and significantly
reduced metamerism.
True print confidence with HP dependable technologies
• HP’s Scalable Printing Technology combined with the Optical
Drop Detector and
Proactive Printhead Maintenance features ensure efficient
printing, prevention of nozzle
clogs and optimized ink consumption.
• HP Easy Printer Care/HP Printer Utility Software helps the
user proactively maintain the
printer and manage printer status, desktop alerts and automatic
updates, saving time
and effort.
• HP Print Preview eliminates trial and error and reduces wasted
ink and media with realtime layout and orientation preview from
drivers on Mac and Windows®.
• HP Color Center effortlessly guides users through color
management and printing;
intuitive instructions enable easy ICC profile creation and
installation.
Additional features
• The HP Designjet Z Photo Printer Series is PC and Mac
compatible.(5)
• HP ProPrint Plug-in and Adobe Lightroom, co-developed with
Adobe, enable the user to print expected colors on the first
try. The free HP ProPrint Plug-in is expected to be
available December 2006. The Adobe Lightroom “Calibrate Printer”
button that
launches color management tools directly from within the
application is expected to
available October 2006.
• HP’s Advanced Profiling Solution,(6) co-developed with
GretagMacbeth, provides
additional options for profiling and system calibration.
• Adobe postscript 3 available thru EFI’s RIP Designer Edition
5.1,(6) developed with HP specific inputs, offers new photo
features and an improved user interface, giving
graphic designers full control over digital proofing needs. A
postscript embedded
version of the HP Designjet Z Photo Printer Series is expected
to be available in Spring
2007.
• Imageprint v.6 photo RIP from Colorbyte is optimized for use
by prosumers and
professional photographers.
• ColorProof v.4 prepress RIP from GMG works directly with the
embedded
spectrophotometer for print verification.
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