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HP Designjet 4520

The Designjet 4520 is a 42 inch large format thermal inkjet printer using double-swath printing to achieve both high quality and high speed. The printer can be matched with a scanner making it a multifunction copier and document storage workstation. A stacker can be added allowing the printer to run unattended for long periods.

The Designjet 4520 was on the market in the 2004 - 2009 timeframe so its not current. However it was built as a piece of industrial machinery and can last a long time.

  • Handles two 175 metre long media rolls with automatic switching. Automatic cutter.
  • Large 775-ml Black and 400-ml colour cartridges.
  • Gigabit Ethernet networking, Embedded web server, Advanced access control.
  • Optional PostScript.
  • Linux PostScript driver for Linux users.

Models are

  • CM767A - HP Designjet 4520 Printer
  • CM768A - HP Designjet 4520ps Printer - the printer with PostScript capability.
  • CM770A - HP Designjet 4520 scanner (supplied as standard with the MFP version)
  • CM769A - HP Designjet 4520mfp - the printer and scanner together.

Print resolution is up to 2400x1200 giving very accurate drawings and good photographic results. The 43 inch scanner has a resolution up to 508 dpi optical enhanced up to 9600 dpi allowing it to capture the smallest details on documents. The scanner has an intuitive 15 inch (381mm) touchscreen with a writeable DVD drive and a graphical user interface with inutitive control software to control scanning, copying and network printing. The Designjet 4520 is the successor to the Designjet 4000 and 4500. As might be expected it has a larger memory 608MB (was 256MB) , bigger disk at 160GB (was 40GB) and a Gigabit Ethernet Print Server (was 10/100Base-T)

Control:

The printer itself has LCD and buttons on the right of the printer body. The LCD shows user friendly animations for consumable levels.

The printer also has HP Embedded Web server for driverless file submission, queue management, preview, supplies and printer status and error notification.

The MFP scanner includes a 15 inch touchscreen display with an intuitive graphical user interface to control scanning, copying, DVD creation and network printing. The touchscreen has an Intel pentium 4 processor operating at 2.6GHz with 1GB local memory and a 40GB disk.

Duty Cycle:

Robust machine designed for commercial and industrial use.

Up to 100 A1/D pages per hour1, 93 m2/hr, 1000 ft2/hr2

Scanner Abilities:

The 4520 series printers can be purchased in an MFP version which incorporates a scanner and control station. The control station has a 381mm (15 inch) touchscreen, keyboard and 2.6GHz Pentium 4 with 1GB memory and hard disk together with an embedded operating system.

The HP Designjet 4520 MFP series delivers outstanding copy and scan performance. With scan speed of 76mm (3 inches) per second color and 254mm (10 inches) per second black and white, A1-size (D-size) prints are produced in less than 1 minute. The wide bodied scanner uses 3 CCD cameras to give excellent image quality at up to 508 dpi optical resolution. Enhanced optical resolution is up to 9600 dpi and line accuracy is to 0.1%. The scanner gives high quality data from original documents even where creases and folds have distorted the image.

Straight-through scan paper path for sheet and cardboard originals.

The scanner has its own 1GB memory and 40GB disk.

Maximum Scan Width:42in/1067mm

Maximum Scan Thickness:0.6 in /15 mm, Accepts originals mounted on board. No scanner limit on length.

Speed: Color (200 dpi): 3in/sec (76mm/sec): Black & white (200 dpi): 10in/sec (245mm/sec)

Resolution:

Draft Mode: black&white 150 x 150 dpi, color 150 x 150 dpi Normal Mode: black&white 200 x 200 dpi, color 200 x 200 dpi Enhanced Mode: black&white 2400 x 2400 dpi, with variable resolution settings from 50 dpi in increments of 1 dpi

Media Types: Non-abrasive paper, vellum, mylar, sepia, blueprints, plastic, film, plastic laminate, foam board, cardboard. No plywood, no stone plates, no metal plates nor abrasive dirty, rough, sharp edged, metal clamped, or burned surfaces.

Compatability: The 4250 scanner is primarily intended to complement the fast printing of the Designjet 4520 printer but it is compatible with the Designjet 500/510, 800, 1000/1055, 4000/4020, 4500/4520, 5000/5500, T610, T1100/T1120, Z6100, Z2100 and Z3100/Z3200. There are Windows drivers for these products.

Copy Abilities:

Copy Resolution: Best Mode 300 x 300 dpi. Normal Mode 200 x 200 dpi. Draft Mode 150 x 150 dpi. Reduction/Enlargement: 1 to 10,000%

Maximum Copies: 99

Copier Settings: Type of original, image crop and align preview, lightness, saturation and RGB controls, sharpen/blur, mirror copy, enlarge/reduce, paneling, tiling, nesting, accounting and batch.

Print resolution is excellent for engineering purposes and for all but the most demanding photographic work where the number of inks may be a limitation as well.

Resolution: up to 2400 x 1200.

Ink drop: 5 pl color, 15 pl black

HP Color Layering technology, HP PhotoREt III Line accuracy: +/- 0.1%

Paper Handling:

42 inch paper path handling media up to A0 and wider. Accommodates 2 media rolls with long roll support up to 175m (500ft US).

Media Handling:Two automatic rolls, automatic roll-switching, automatic cutter.

Optional: Media stacker capable of handling 200 plots. (Allows the printer to run unattended)

Printer media:

Thickness (by paper path):All paths: up to 0.157 in/0.4 mm

Weight (by paper path): All paths: 0.11 to 0.72 lb/50 to 328 g/m2

Size: Rolls up to 42 in/1067 mm wide

Paper: (plain, inkjet, coated, heavyweight coated, super heavyweight coated, semi-gloss, glossy, translucent bond, natural tracing, photo, vellum), film.

Print margins:

Top - 0.2 in/5 mm (Small); 0.45 in/11.5 mm (Normal); 2.1 in/55 mm (Extended)

Bottom - 0.2 in/5 mm (Small & Normal); 2.1 in/55 mm (Extended)

Side - 0.2 in/5 mm (Small & Normal); 0.6 in /15 mm (Extended)

Duplex:

No auto-duplex option is available from HP

Processor:

Embedded processor for simultaneous printing and processing. 256 MB memory expandable to 512 MBand 40 GB hard disk.

Memory:

Printer: 608 MB (upgradeable to 1120 MB), 160 GB hard disk

Interface:

Printer: Embedded Jetdirect Gigabit Ethernet print server (1000Base-T) , Two FireWire Ports (IEEE 1394a-compliant) EIO port for optional Jetdirect cards

Scanner: Gigabit Ethernet print server (1000Base-T) , FireWire Port (IEEE 1394a-compliant)

Network:

Gigabit Ethernet print server (1000Base-T) , Two FireWire Ports (IEEE 1394a-compliant)

HP Designjet 4520 Printer: HP-GL/2, HP-RTL, TIFF, JPEG, CALS-G4,HP Designjet 4520ps Printer & HP Designjet 4520mfp: Adobe PostScript Level 3, Adobe PDF 1.5, HP-GL/2, HP-RTL,TIF, JPEG, CALS-G4

System Compatability:

Drivers (included): HP-GL/2, HP-RTL, PostScript(6 drivers for Windows; HP PCL 3 GUI, PostScript(6 drivers for Mac OS X 10.4/10.5; support for Citrix XenApp and Citrix XenServer environments

Power:

Printers: Power requirements Input voltage (auto ranging): 100 to 127 VAC (+/- 10%), 6 A; 220 to 240 VAC (+/- 10%), 3 A; 50/60 Hz (+/- 3 Hz);

Scanner: 100 to 240 VAC (+/- 10%), 50/60 Hz, 5 A maximum

Power Consumption:

Maximum Printer 500 watts, Printer and Scanner 800 watts

Dimensions:

Dimensions (h x d x w):

Maximum Printer: 1930 x 800 x 1350 mm / 76 x 31.5 x 53.2 in

Maximum Scanner: 1800 x 1020 x 1380 mm / 70.8 x 40.2 x 54.3 in

Shipping printer: 2130 x 775 x 1890 mm / 83.9 x 30.5 x 74.4 in (EMEA),

Shipping scanner: 1910 x 690 x 730 mm / 75.2 x 27.2 x 28.7 in

Stacker: 1286 x 1569 x 135 mm / 50.63 x 61.77 x 44.69 in

Shipping stacker: 1400 x 810 x 23.6 mm / 55.1 x 31.9 x 23.6 in

Consumables:

C5058A HP 90 Black Ink Cartridge, 400 ml

C5059A HP 90 Black Ink Cartridge, 775 ml

C5060A HP 90 Cyan Ink Cartridge, 225 ml

C5061A HP 90 Cyan Ink Cartridge, 400 ml

C506A HP 90 Magenta Ink Cartridge 225 ml

C5063A HP 90 Magenta Ink Cartridge, 400 ml

C5064A HP 90 Yellow Ink Cartridge, 225ml

C5065A HP 90 Yellow Ink Cartridge, 400 ml