HP introduces the Designjet 120 Series

Notes and media contacts

Product features

HP Designjet 120 series

Colour image quality that brings ideas to life
• The 6-colour ink system and independent catridges offer automatic closed-loop colour calibration which ensures colour consistency from print to print and printer to printer, saving time and supplies spent on reprinting.
• Superb image quality from the 2400-dpi writing system, HP colour layering technology, and the four-picoliter drop system that provides continuous tones, sharp detail, smooth colour transitions and area fill uniformity.
• Optional HP RIP - support for standard automatic PANTONE ® calibration™, colour emulation standards (Apple ColorSync, ICC profiles), and offset press emulations (EuroScale, SWOP, DIC, JMPA and TOYO) for maximum colour accuracy.

Postcards to posters: No need to cut and paste or outsource
• Eliminate pasting sheets together with the ability to print common sizes like letter, tabloid and custom sizes from 76mm by 14.2cm to 62.5cm x 162.5cm from a single, in-house printer.
• Convenient media handling with cut sheet or roll sheet feed
• Print up to 60.96cm wide and 152cm long using an automatic roll feed (included with the 120nr). The automatic roll feed allows the user to switch between already loaded media types and sizes without intervention.
• A6 up to A1 printing

Time to design: Spend more time designing, less time printing
• Print work for client approval right away with text, lines, and images that print at print speeds of up to 1.5 minute per page for A3+ on Glossy media in normal print mode and up to 4 minutes per page on Glossy media in best mode.
• It offers drivers for Mac OS X v10.2 and includes various graphics features.
• Easy setup with support for parallel and USB connections. Add a network card to share the printer. The HP Jetdirect print server card (included with the 120 nr) provides high-speed Fast Ethernet networking with a data transmission speed of up to 4.5 MB per second.

Media options and inks

Special media available for the Designjet 120 series include:
• HP Proofing Gloss - 33cm x 48.3cm, 45.7cm x 6.10cm and 61.0cm x 91.4cm; 61.0cm x 3.05cm rolls
• HP Proofing Semi-Gloss - 33cm x 48.3cm cutsheets; 61.0cm x 3.05cm rolls
• HP Proofing Matte - 33.cm x 48.3cm cutsheets; 61.0cm x 30.5cm rolls
• HP Coated Paper - 45.7cm x 61.0cm, 61.0cm x 91.4cm cutsheets

The HP Designjet 120 is powered by the separately replaceable HP No. 11, No. 82 and No. 84 ink cartridges and printheads. The dye-based black ink produces uniform gloss while the dye-based cyan, magenta and yellow inks provide vibrant colour images and graphics. With additional light dye-load cyan and magenta inks colour transitions become very smooth ensuring photo-quality accuracy.

The six-colour ink system from HP uses specially formulated, high-quality dye inks to ensure higher contrast, a wider colour gamut, better colour uniformity and better surface gloss consistency.

About HP

HP is a leading global provider of products, technologies, solutions and services to consumers and businesses. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. HP completed its acquisition of Compaq Computer Corporation on May 3, 2002. More information about HP is available at www.hp.com/me

About HP Middle East
HP is the largest IT company in the Middle East employing about 500 people in the region. HP has been present in the Middle East since 1968, and opened its first regional office in 1994 and has offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Cairo, Riyadh, Jeddah and Khobar servicing the GCC, the Levant and Egypt. For more information about HP in the Middle East, please visit www.hp.com/middleeast.