HP New Edgeline Printer Techology
HP have been working on high-performance printers for business for a while now and have pioneered the development of HP Edgeline Technology, this new ink-based printing engine has been designed to meet the demands of high-volume workloads. HP Edgeline offers innovative printing solutions for businesses with high-volume printing requirements, such as retailers, industrial printers and office environments. This new technology offers faster printing speeds, outstanding print quality and reliability, and low operating costs. The HP engineers were tasked with one thing, how to make printing better! It looks like they have managed it, the new Edgeline technology will offer excellent performance, be incredibly reliable and cost efficient. So what makes HP Edgeline technology so good? HP Edgeline Technology is a totally new way of printing; the ink-based print engine is designed with several printheads which span the width of the page, which means the paper moves, not the printhead. Simple eh! This allows greater printing speeds using large, stationary printheads—arranged in a line—which dispenses ink across the entire width of the page as the paper passes beneath them. What you get is an accurate ink-drop placement and breathtaking print speeds for crisp, print-shop quality output—fast. This amazing new design of printhead design delivers outstanding reliability, allowing for longer printing time, lower maintenance bills and lower overall cost of operation. The new printhead works in conjunction with HP Vivera inks to deliver market leading print quality. HP Edgeline Technology is fast too, the system is used in HP Photosmart Express Station retail photo kiosks which deliver lightning-fast prints of digital photos, in fact 20 4 x 6-inch photos can be printed in about two minutes and the print quality is outstanding. HP Edgeline Technology is also used to power the new HP Photosmart pm1000 Microlab printer, which delivers photo lab–quality prints as fast as five seconds per print. HP Edgeline Technology will start to be used in many more high-performance HP products. For example, HP has announced the production of the new HP CM8060/8050 Color MFP with Edgeline Technology available in Spring 2007. Although these printers will be expensive initially, look out for them in the future as lower priced more accessible Edgeline printers, aimed at the home market are released.
