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HP DesignJet Z2100

HP's DesignJet Z2100 is an 8 ink wide-body photo printer introduced in 2006; its the first of the new-styled DesignJets.

Fast, large format thermal inkjet based colour printer / plotter aimed at pre-press and photographic uses. This printer was fast for its time, based on printheads with 1056 nozzles per colour - deilvering a wide swath at each pass. The colour performance is enhanced by using 8 Vivera inks: Cyan, Light Cyan, Magenta, Light Magenta, Yellow and three black components - a photo black, matte black and a grey. The three black components allow the printer to produce convincing black backgrounds but also to handle soft tones, metallic shading and give accurate production of a 0.0423 mm minimum line width. The printer has two more inks than the T610/ T1100 allowing it to produce many of the subtle colours found in photographic material.

An embedded spectrophotometer enables the printer to automatically generate custom ICC profiles for user chosen paper in less than 20 minutes. The colour calibration gives consistent colour quality over time and across the DesignJet Z series.

The DesignJet Z2100 comes equipped with a network port for workgroup use:

DesignJet Z2100 - Q6675A - 24-in Printer - 610mm print width. DesignJet Z2100 GP - Q6675B - 24-in Printer plus HP Advance profiling. DesignJet Z2100 - Q6677A- 44-in Printer - 1118mm print width

Both printers come with a stand and rear tray.

Alternatives to the Z2100 are:

The "T" series printers with a 6 ink system mainly aimed at technical drawing. It's a similar printer but lacks the light cyan and light magenta inks that give the Z2100 it's colour range.

The Z3100 printers with a 12 ink system aimed at producing even higher quality photographic material. The inks include a gloss enhancer to reduce bronzing and metamerism.

Control:

240 x 160 graphical display. HP Web JetAdmin. HP Easy Print Care allows monitoring of printer supplies and status.

Print Speed:

A1 colour image in 2.2 minutes on coated paper. 6.1 minutes per page glossy in economy mode. In productivity quality 3.8 minutes per page on coated, 7.5 minutes on glossy. Full photo quality 9.9 minutes per page coated, 13.1 minutes glossy.

Print Resolution:

2400x1200 dpi (from 1200 dpi data). 8 Colours, Cyan, Light cyan, Magenta, Light Magenta, Yellow, Matte Black, Photo Black and Gray. 6 picolitre drops for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Matte Black. 4 pl drops for Light Cyan, Light Magenta, Grey and Photo Black.

Paper Handling:

A0++ 44 inch and A1 24 inch models. Supports any size over A4.

The PCL 3GUI print language is a compressed raster format used to transfer images to DesignJet and other HP inkjet printers.

With PCL 3GUI the entire burden of converting the data in the graphics application on the computer to the multi-gigabte image that will be printed falls on the computer. For photography that will be reasonable - nothing else could be done.

Photographs originate as compressed bitmaps and can only be communicated to the printer as a compressed bitmap so PCL 3GUI makes sense in that job. Essentially it adds pagelength and guillotine instructions. Ideally the printer might take a RAW image but there are no standards for that sort of thing. RAW, JPEG and PDF are amongst many standards used - all are converted to the PCL-3GUI standard.

Engineering diagrams and computer generated imagery start as vectors. Converting them to vectors like HP-GL/2 or PostScript is easy. Converting vectors to the print raster is a memory hungry process and it makes more sense to send the vetors to the printer and effectively delegating it; that could speed things up and should lower the PC memory footprint .

Memory:

256MB and 40GB hard disk. (Did older models ship with 128MB RAM ?)

Interface:

The Z2100 has a high speed USB port (compatible with USB.20 specifications). There is 10/100 Ethernet RJ45 port and an unoccupied EIO slot (?).

Print Languages:

HP PCL3GUI. There is an upgrade kit Q6692A providing HP-GL/2 for the Z2100/Z3100 Photo Series to give them technical drawing abilities.

System Compatability:

Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003. Apple Mac OS v10.2 and higher. Citrix MetaFrame.

Dimensions:

T2100 24 inch model 1262x661x1047mm without stand.

Consumables:

Printheads and Inks:

HP 72 Grey and Photo Black Printhead - C9380A

HP 72 Magenta and Cyan Printhead - C9383A

HP 72 Matte Black and Yellow Printhead - C9384A

HP 70 Matte Black / Cyan Printhead for Z2100 - C9404A

HP 70 Light Cyan / Light Magenta Printhead for Z2100 - C9405A

HP 70 Magenta / Yellow Printhead for Z2100 - C9406A

HP 70 Photo Black / Light Gray Printhead for Z2100 - C9407A

HP 70 Blue / Green Printhead for Z2100/ Z3100 - C9408A

HP 70 Matte Black / Red Printhead for Z2100/Z3100 - C9409A

HP Gloss Enhancer Printhead for Z2100 C9410A

HP 70 Gloss Enhancer ink cartridge C9459A

HP 70 Gray ink cartridge C9450A

HP 70 Red ink cartridge C9456A

HP 70 Green ink cartridge C9457A

HP 70 Blue ink cartridge C9458A

Ink: HP Vivera pigmented inks.

HP 70 130 ml Matte Black ink cartridge with Vivera ink - C9448A

HP 70 130 ml Photo Black ink cartridge with Vivera ink - C9449A

HP 70 130 ml Light Gray ink cartridge with Vivera ink - C9451A

HP 70 130 ml Cyan ink cartridge with Vivera ink - C9452A

HP 70 130 ml Magenta ink cartridge with Vivera ink - C9453A

HP 70 130 ml Yellow ink cartridge with Vivera ink - C9454A

HP 70 130 ml Light Magenta ink cartridge with Vivera ink - C9455A

HP 70 130 ml Light Cyan ink cartridge with Vivera ink - C9390A

Colour lightfasness for over 200 years based on HP's own light-fade tests using Super Heavyweight Plus Matte Paper, Hahnemuhle Smooth Fine Art Paper etc. Confirmation tests at www.wilhem-research.com

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