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Issue Date: April/May 2000

Large format printer has been enhanced

1 April 2000

Hewlett-Packard has announced an updated version of its HP DesignJet ColorPro CAD printer, designed especially for computer aided design (CAD) customers, such as architects, engineers and GIS professionals.
The enhanced HP DesignJet ColorPro CAD printer now includes a new Windows driver that allows easy and high-quality printing from Windows applications. With the new Windows driver, the HP DesignJet ColorPro CAD printer can process and print Windows applications up to six times faster than before. The driver is available now, free of charge, on the HP website www.hp.com/go/designjet/</a> for current HP DesignJet ColorPro CAD printer customers and HP resellers who would like to upgrade their printers.
In addition, HP has developed a new firmware version of the HP<GL/2 and RTL standard for seamless HP DesignJet ColorPro CAD printer integration.
With this new version of the HP<GL/2 firmware, third party applications - including those from software vendors such as CoCreate, Dassault, Intergraph, Bentley, Er Mapper, SmallWorld, SolidWorks, ZEH, and Parametric Technologies – can support the HP DesignJet ColorPro CAD printer.
The HP DesignJet ColorPro CAD printer enables CAD customers to produce in-house, full-bleed output from 100 x 150 mm up to 275x 325 mm - good for final quality line drawings, renderings, handouts and presentations. CAD users also are able to produce fast checkprints, allowing them to increase productivity and check draft designs on paper. This high-performance printer is capable of both processing and printing an 279 x 432 mm colour line drawing in 'fast' mode in 15 s on plain paper, a colour line drawing (same size) in 'normal' mode in 1,5 minutes, and an image in 'best' mode in 9 min on glossy paper. The printer provides true 600 x 600 dots<per<inch (dpi) resolution for accurate black and colour line drawings and clear, sharp renderings.
The printer incorporates HP's modular ink system, including four individually contained, high capacity ink cartridges and four individual long life printheads. A total of 304 nozzles per printhead allows more ink to be laid down in a single pass. The built-in smart chips automatically monitor performance and ink usage and notify the user when a cartridge or printhead needs to be replaced.
Hewlett-Packard
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