HP Z3100ps User Manual

Breakthrough color performance

Achieve accurate, predictable, and consistent color.

• Produce superior and consistent color from print to print. The first embedded spectrophotometer with i1 color technology

enables precise printer calibration to deliver print-to-print consistency. You can even generate custom ICC profiles for your preferred paper automatically.

• Print on the media that’s right for your project.

Achieve consistent colors on a wide range of papers. Increase your options—choose from over 30 new HP papers and other readily available media.

• Get fast color stability plus a broad gamut. Colors

are stable in as little as five minutes. Print the colors you need with over 80 percent PANTONE

coverage,

HP Professional PANTONE emulation, and full compliance with all major prepress standards.

• Glide effortlessly through color management and printing. The HP Color Center tool gives you

a single source to control and manage your color workflow.

No-limits printing

Produce vivid, long-lasting prints using HP Vivera pigment inks.

• Create spectacular high-quality color photos, posters, maps and renderings. Consistently achieve

outstanding image quality using a 12-ink printing system with HP 70 Vivera pigment inks. The precisely placed 4- and 6-pl ink drops, along with 2400 dpi resolution, highlight even the most intricate details.

• Avoid fading with water-resistant prints. Prints are water-resistant and resist fading for over 200 years

on a range of basic and specialty media.

• Produce beautiful black-and-white prints with the HP Quad-black ink set. Get true gray neutrality

under different lighting conditions, plus smooth, continuous tones, and rich, deep blacks on matte and glossy media.

• Eliminate bronzing and achieve superior gloss uniformity with HP Gloss Enhancer.

Use on glossy and semi-gloss photo papers to produce images with uniform gloss from highlights to shadows.

True print confidence

Print with greater confidence, thanks to dependable HP technologies.

• Achieve flawless output every time. HP’s Optical Drop

Detector monitors the drop ejection performance and compensates for failed or clogged nozzles to ensure dependable and consistent image quality every time.

• Simplify and empower your workflow with HP’s Embedded Web Server and Adobe

PostScript 3 RIP.

Directly submit TIFF, JPEG, and PDF files to the printer without ever opening a driver or application. Quickly and easily manage your print jobs, monitor supplies, and track printer status from your workstation. The onboard RIP, based on true Adobe PostScript, offers driver-like simplicity and seamlessly integrates with Adobe applications.

• Eliminate trial and error with real-time layout and orientation preview. HP’s printer drivers and

embedded web server let you preview the layout, size and position on your paper saving time, effort and money.

HP Designjet Z3100ps GP Photo Printer series

Deliver exquisite color and true black-and-white results with breakthrough color quality, accuracy, and consistency. Count on HP for printing that’s easy, reliable and predictable—for posters, banners, maps, presentations, photos and fine art reproductions.

In a drop-on-demand inkjet large-format printer of its category.

HP’s preliminary, internal results have shown that the HP Designjet Z Photo Printer series is capable of successfully simulating over 80% of the PANTONE colors. HP Designjet Z2100 and Z3100 Photo Printers are pending PANTONE licensing.

Display permanence rating for interior displays/away from direct sunlight by HP Image Permanence Lab and by Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc., on a range of HP media. Water resistance and interior in-window display ratings by HP Image Permanence Lab on a range of HP media. For details, visit www.hp.com/go/supplies/printpermanence.

Bronzing is eliminated as an image-quality issue when HP Gloss Enhancer is used. HP Gloss Enhancer is used on photo paper, with the exception of matte-finish papers.

HP Designjet Z3100ps GP Photo Printer series

1. Roll feed accommodates media rolls up to 300 ft

2. HP Vivera ink supplies up to 130 ml

3. Six long-life printheads featuring HP Scalable Printing Technology

4. Easy-to-reach, intuitive LCD front panel and direct-access keys for

ink supply maintenance and print message alerts

5. Mounted on the carriage, the embedded spectrophotometer

brings accurate profiling and precision color calibration

6. Front bypass slot accommodates media up to 24 in./610 mm

wide (24-in. printer) or up to 44 in./1117 mm (44-in. printer)

7. Rear bypass slot handles heavy and rigid media of weights up

to 500 g/m

and thickness up to 0.8 mm

8. 40 GB hard disk for large files and file queuing

9. Media stand and bin collect drawings as they print

10. USB and Ethernet connections ensure easy workgroup integration

11. EIO slot accommodates an array of HP JetDirect options

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Printer series at a glance

HP Designjet Z3100ps GP Photo Printer

• Choice of 24- and 44-inch models

• Drivers for Windows

and Macintosh

• 256 MB RAM and 40 GB hard disk

• Embedded Adobe PostScript 3 RIP

• Direct file submission of HP RTL, HP-GL/2, CALS, TIFF, JPEG, PostScript, and PDF files

• Advanced Profiling Solution, including colorimeter for monitor calibration

Options

• Additional spindles for easy media swapping

• EFI Designer Edition XL for HP

• Installation service

• Warranty extensions or upgrades

• HP JetDirect network solutions

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