Midcomp exhibited the HP PageWide XL 8000 for the first time in Africa at the Sign Africa Durban Expo, which took place from 24-25 February 2016 at the Durban ICC.
Balancing speed, quality, and cost in printing applications once meant sacrificing one benefit
for another. Today, HP PageWide Technology overcomes these trade-offs with revolutionary and scalable designs that deliver quality and speed together, at a significant cost advantage, based on the latest HP printing innovations built on proven technologies.
HP PageWide XL: High-Productivity, Large-Format Production Printing
The HP PageWide XL is the fastest large-format monochrome and colour printer on the market, allowing you to print faster than alternatives, even the fastest LEDs. It delivers:
- Up to 30 A1 pages/minute and 1500 A1 pages/hour in monochrome and colour.
- Monochrome and colour at speeds up to 60% faster than the fastest monochrome LED printer. (With a maximum linear speed of 23 metres/minute (75 feet/minute), an HP PageWide large-format printer is 60% faster than the fastest rated LED printer as of March, 2015.)
- 350 square metres/hour for high density graphics and 700 quare metres/hour for low density graphics.
The printer series is ideal for those businesses that want to become 'one-stop shops' and keep business in-house without having to outsource. The printers allow you to grow with GIS map and Point of Sale poster printing to generate new revenue streams. You can produce durable technical documents up to 101.6cm (40-inches) wide with crisp lines, fine detail, and smooth greyscales that beat LED. You can also print colour technical documents at the lowest cost in the market, cut job preparation and finishing costs up to 50% and see up to 10 times lower energy consumption than comparable LED printers.
HP’s PageWide technology will open new doors in the poster printing segment and may go a long way to bridging some gaps with other market segments that share the same marketing campaigns as commercial printers.
'We have not yet had the opportunity to fully explore the myriad of possibilities, applications and market opportunities that exist for PageWide technology in the poster printing arena,' said Sean Greer, Midcomp. 'We welcome all poster printing service providers to visit the Midcomp Innovation Hub and put the demo PageWide XL8000 through its paces, testing as many different types of artwork and applications native to poster printing service providers. PageWide technology prints super-well, super-fast and makes the impossible, possible!'
Entrance to the Sign Africa Expo is free. For more information, and to pre-register online, please visit:
www.signafricaexpo.com/durban/.
