HP UNVEILS NEW INK-BASED TECHNOLOGY

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HP unveils new ink-based printing technology
Offers industry’s most complete set of options for enterprise and small and mid-size customers
Products
using this technology would redefine business printing with better
printing speeds, operating costs and reliability.HEWLETT-PACKARD has
unveiled an ink-based printing technology, the HP Edgeline,
specifically designed to handle high-volume workloads of
businesses.According to HP’s internal research, high-volume office
printing, industrial printing and retail printing solutions will
represent an estimated $30 billion-plus market opportunity by
2009.Explaining the features of Edgeline technology, the HP Imaging and
Printing Group Executive Vice-President, Vyomesh Joshi, told a group of
visiting presspersons in San Francisco recently, that this spring, HP
would unveil the patented technology in the first device that combined
the benefits of the ink and laser.Products using this technology would
redefine business printing with better printing speeds, operating costs
and reliability. At the same time, the text and graphics would be of
“excellent print quality” and this was made possible partly with the
use of specially formulated HP Vivera inks.The technology used
page-wide print heads to distribute ink rapidly and precisely in one
pass.”With the Edgeline announcement from HP, we believe that the
promise of inkjet for wide deployment in the higher end of the
workgroup is close to being realised,” said Charlie Corr, group
director, InfoTrends.

Multifunction printers
At the `product
and solution exposition’ at San Francisco, HP announced its
largest-ever rollout of multifunction printers, aimed at replacing
copiers in business of all sizes. “HP’s new multifunction printer
lineup adds to the laserJet portfolio and offers the industry’s most
complete set of options for both enterprise and small and mid-size
customers,” said Bruce W. Dahlgren, senior vice president, Worldwide
Enterprise Sales, HP Imaging and Printing Group.Mr. Dahlgren, who moved
to HP a few months earlier, said his comments related to markets
outside of the U.S. in compliance with legal requirements after he
switched companies. Through mid-January 2007, he will focus exclusively
on projects and customers in Europe, West Asia, Africa, Latin America
and the Asia-pacific.Of the new models , the HP
LaserJet M3035/M3027 deliver 35 and 27 pages per minute, respectively,
with exceptional output and a convenient stapler.The printers include a
HP Easy Select control panel, an intuitive touch-screen that visually
walks users through procedures and assists with setup and trouble
shooting. The HP LaserJet M4345 MFP series offers printing, copying,
optional faxing and advanced digital sending with paper handling,
finishing and the HP Easy Select control panel. Another new product
from the stable, the HP LaserJet M5035 MFP series, HP says, is the
industry’s fastest desktop wide-format MFP. Coupled with the M 5025 MFP
series, it provides cost-effective wide format printing and copying,
faxing and stapling options and delivers 35 and 25 pages per minute
respectively.The printers will be available in India from the first
week of November. 

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November 8, 2006 at 10:33 AM