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From posters to photos, maps to fine art, the HP Designjet Z6100 Printer series delivers exceptional print speeds with outstanding image quality and durability Plus, with an embedded spectrophotometer and Original HP Vivera pigment inks, you'll get accurate, fade-resistant colour every time you print.

 

Short turnaround times

Let this exceptionally fast printer handle peak workloads, last-minute requests, or real-time changes.

Print at extremely high speeds. HP Double Swath technology and the first-ever HP Optical Media Advance Sensor give you a wide print swath and extremely accurate printing for great results at exceptionally high speeds.

Benefit from unattended printing. High volume, unattended printing—even overnight—is easy, thanks to Original HP jumbo-length rolls up to 574 ft. long.

Skip the interruptions. High-capacity 775 ml Original HP 91 Ink Cartridges with HP Vivera pigment inks mean even fewer stops and starts in your printing.

Outstanding image quality

Achieve vivid colour and exceptional fade resistance with Original HP Vivera pigment inks.

Discover vivid color. Eight Original HP Vivera pigment inks deliver a wide colour gamut with true neutral grays for outstanding image quality and detail.

Get lasting quality. Interior display prints produced with Original HP Vivera pigment inks resist fading in or near a window for more than one year unlaminated, more than three years laminated and more than

200 years away from direct sun.

Choose the media you need. Attain outstanding quality on a wide variety of Original HP media types including photo, matte, banner, fine-art, and technical and graphic media and films.

Produce prints fast without sacrificing quality. HP’s innovative printhead design delivers accurate, small drop sizes, enabling high-quality, high-speed printing.

Print using the HP Designjet system for best results. HP printers, HP Vivera pigment inks and Original HP media are developed together as a system to deliver optimal print quality and reliability.

Breakthrough color accuracy

Get consistent results print to print and printer to printer with HP’s advanced closed-loop colour calibration.

Count on consistent colours. HP DreamColor Technologies provide you reliable, accurate colours every time you print regardless of fluctuating environmental conditions.

Easily add new media types and get accurate colour. The built-in spectrophotometer provides breakthrough color accuracy and lets you create ICC profiles in just 20 minutes for accurate profiling and precision printer calibration.

Create the best results every time. HP’s Advanced Profiling Solution allows you to accurately calibrate and profile colours. The HP Colour Center provides step-by-step instructions for adding new media, calibrating and optimizing color output.

Easy-to-use job management tools

Increase your efficiency with more options.

Track your supplies costs. Accounting features track ink and media use to help you monitor costs on a print-by-print basis.

Change what you need, minus the hassle. Easily adapt in real time by resetting job priorities, reprinting stored jobs, and previewing before printing.

Store jobs as long as you want. The 40 GB hard disk adds security and convenience, allowing you to keep submitted jobs on your printer.

 

Printer series at a glance

HP Designjet Z6100 Printer:

Choose from 42- or 60-inch models

Direct file submission of HP-RTL, HP-GL/2, CALS G4, TIFF and JPEG files

40 GB hard disk

HP Designjet Z6100ps Printer:

Choose from 42- or 60-inch models

Embedded Adobe® PostScript 3 RIP

256 MB RAM (42-inch), 512 MB RAM (60-inch) and 40 GB hard disk

Direct file submission of HP-RTL, HP-GL/2, CALS G4, TIFF, JPEG, PostScript, EPS and PDF files

 

Options:

• HP Designjet 42-inch Scanner

• HP Advanced Profiler Solution

• Additional spindles for easy media swapping

• User maintenance kit

• Dual-mode take-up reel (standard on 60-inch; optional on 42-inch models)

• Media bin (standard on 42-inch; optional on 60-inch models)

• USB or HP JetDirect network solutions

• 256 MB upgrade (available on 42-inch model)

HP System HP Vivera pigment ink

Work with millions of colour combinations across a wide color gamut and wide range of media. The Original HP Vivera pigment inks include the HP three-black ink set that produces a broad range of blacks, subtle transitions, true gray neutrality, and rich black density. Exclusive Original HP Vivera pigment ink formulations are delivered by HP 91 Printheads that are designed to achieve precise, accurate placement of smaller drops at high speed. Each printhead prints two colors of ink with 1,056 nozzles per color. Working together, these components produce a range of vibrant colors, smooth neutral gray transitions, crisp text, and fine line accuracy for a wide color gamut, incredible detail, and photo-image quality.

HP Services

Want to ensure your printer is always available and productive? Check out HP Care Pack Services for installation and multi-year on-site services. Experts are available with technical phone, web and on-site services to make sure you get the most efficient use of your printer. Competitively priced, flexible packages let you select service levels, hours of coverage and response times that meet your needs.

HP technology leadership Outstanding speed

HP Double Swath technology provides breakthrough speed and performance. The HP Designjet Z6100 Printer series includes two sets of four HP Vivera pigment ink printheads, creating a wide print swath— up to 1.8 inches—and a high firing frequency to deliver prints with amazing speed.

The first-ever HP Optical Media Advance Sensor

allows you to print at top speeds and still get great output results. This breakthrough technology improves paper-advance control and accuracy, so the printer can print at higher speeds across multiple environmental conditions without impairing image quality.

Amazing colour

The HP embedded spectrophotometer, with i1 Colour Technology from GretagMacbeth, is mounted on the printer carriage for accurate printer calibration measurements that deliver print-to-print and printer-to-printer colour consistency. It revolutionizes professional colour workflows by systematically creating media profiles, allowing users to automatically generate custom CMYK ICC profiles for their preferred media. Also, with the optional HP Advanced Profiling Solution, you can edit and modify existing profiles and create RGB profiles.

HP DreamColor Technologies make it easy for you to produce accurate, predictable and consistent colour across different printers, presses and media. The HP Designjet Z6100 Printer series comes equipped with HP DreamColor Technologies: HP Professional PANTONE® emulation, HP’s closed-loop color calibration and automatic ICC profiling with the HP embedded spectrophotometer and software. The result? The HP Designjet Z6100 Printer series, plus HP media and HP 91 Vivera pigment inks, produce vivid and accurate colour prints—print to print and printer to printer.

High productivity

The HP Easy Printer Care Tool lets you easily navigate through colour-management, printing and job-management workflows, and the HP Color Center provides easy-to-use, step-by-step instructions on how to add new media and calibrate the printer. Plus, the HP Designjet Z6100ps printer’s accounting tool allows you to easily track supplies use by job, while the job submitter tool lets you submit your HP-RTL, HP-GL/2, CALS G4, PostScript, PDF, TIFF, EPS and JPEG files directly to the printer.

HP DreamColor Technologies make it easy for you to produce accurate, predictable and consistent color across different printers, presses and media. The HP Designjet Z6100 Printer series comes equipped with HP DreamColor Technologies: HP Professional PANTONE® emulation, HP’s closed-loop color calibration and automatic ICC profiling with the HP embedded spectrophotometer and software. The result? The HP Designjet Z6100 Printer series, plus HP media and HP 91 Vivera pigment inks, produce vivid and accurate colour prints—print to print and printer to printer.

High productivity

The HP Easy Printer Care Tool lets you easily navigate through colour-management, printing and job-management workflows, and the HP Colour Center provides easy-to-use, step-by-step instructions on how to add new media and calibrate the printer. Plus, the HP Designjet Z6100ps printer’s accounting tool allows you to easily track supplies use by job, while the job submitter tool lets you submit your HP-RTL, HP-GL/2, CALS G4, PostScript, PDF, TIFF, EPS and JPEG files directly to the printer.

Print speed

Fast

 66.9 m2/hr, 42 sec/page on D/A1 (on coated paper)

23.4 m2/hr, 2.1 min/page on D/A1 (on glossy paper)

Best

13.7 m2/hr, 3.3 min/page on D/A1 (on coated paper)

Memory 42-inch models: 256 MB standard memory,4 40 GB hard disk

60-inch models: 512 MB standard memory, 40 GB hard disk

Media Handling

Roll feed

Types

Bond and coated paper (bond, bright white bond, coated, heavyweight coated, super heavyweight

matte, colored); technical paper (natural tracing, translucent, vellum); film (clear, matte, polyester white

matte); photographic paper (gloss, semi-gloss, satin, RC matte); proofing paper (high-gloss, semi-gloss,

matte); backlit; self-adhesive (indoor paper, polypropylene, vinyl); banner and sign (display film, banner,

polypropylene, scrim, Tyvek, outdoor paper, billboard paper blue back); fabric (flag fabric, polyester, silk

satin); fine art printing material (satin canvas, matte canvas, canvas paper, aquarella, watercolor, smooth,

textured, litho-realistic)

Weight

Up to 430 g/m2 depending on media type

Size

42-inch models: 24- to 42-inch rolls

60-inch models: 24- to 60-inch rolls

Thickness

Up to 22 mil

Maximum roll length

175 m

Printing

Margins 0.2 x 0.2 x 0.2 x 0.2 inch/5 x 5 x 5 x 5 mm

Technology

HP Thermal Inkjet

Ink cartridge colors (8)

Cyan, magenta, matte black, photo black, yellow, light cyan, light gray, light magenta

Ink types

Original HP Vivera pigment inks

Ink drop

4 pl (light cyan, light magenta, light gray, photo black),
6 pl (cyan, magenta, yellow, matte black)

Ink cartridge size

 775 ml Original HP ink cartridges; HP 3-ink Cartridge Multipacks also available

Nozzles

2 colors per printhead, 1056 nozzles per color, 16,896 total nozzles

Minimum line width

0.003 in./0.067 mm

Line accuracy

+/- 0.1%5

Maximum print length

175 m (OS and application dependent)

Connectivity

Interfaces (standard) One EIO slot, Gigabit Ethernet

Interfaces (optional) HP Designjet high-speed USB 2.0 card, compatible HP JetDirect LAN cards

Print languages (standard)

HP Designjet Z6100 Printer: HP-GL/2, HP-RTL, TIFF, JPEG, CALS G4;
HP Designjet Z6100ps Printer: Adobe

PostScript Level 3, Adobe PDF 1.6, HP-GL/2, HP-RTL,TIFF, JPEG, CALS G4

Drivers (included) HP Designjet Z6100 Printer: HP-GL/2, HP-RTL Windows drivers, ADI driver for AutoCAD R14, support for

AutoCAD 200x, support for Citrix MetaFrame environments; HP Designjet Z6100ps Printer: HP-GL/2,

HP-RTL Windows drivers, PS Windows drivers, ADI driver for AutoCAD R14, support for AutoCAD 200x,

support for Citrix MetaFrame environments, PS driver for Mac OS X v 10.2.8, 10.3, 10.4

Environmental ranges

Operating temperature 41 to 104° F/5 to 40° C

Recommended operating temperature

 59 to 95° F/15 to 35° C

Storage temperature

 -13 to 131° F/-25 to 55° C

Operating humidity

20 to 80% RH

Acoustic Sound pressure,

active 51 dB(A)

Sound pressure, standby 38 dB(A)

Sound power, active 6.8 B(A)

Power consumption

Maximum 350 watts

Powersave 21 watts

Off 0.4 watts

Power requirements

Input voltage: 100 to 127 VAC (+/- 10%), 4 amp; 220 to 240 VAC (+/- 10%),

2 amp; 50/60 Hz (+/- 3 Hz); voltage autorange

Certification

Safety United States and Canada (CSA certified), EU (LVD and EN60950-1–compliant), Russia (GOST),

Singapore (PSB), China (CCC), Argentina (IRAM), Mexico (NYCE)

Electromagnetic Compliant with Class A requirements, including USA (FCC rules), Canada (DoC), EU (EMC Directive),

Australia (ACA), New Zealand (MoC), China (CCC), Japan (VCCI), Korea (MIC), Taiwan (BSMI)

Environmental ENERGY STAR® qualified models; see: http://www.hp.com/go/energystar, EU WEEE,

and RoHS Directives

Warranty

One-year limited hardware warranty; 8-hour, 5 days a week phone support

Service and support

Care packs 42-inch model 60-inch model

HP 3-Year Next Day Onsite Service H5504E UG731A

HP 4-Year Next Day Onsite Service H3615E UG732E

HP 5-Year Next Day Onsite Service H3616E UG733E

HP 1-Year Post-Warranty Next Day Onsite Service H4607PA/PE UG738PE/PA

HP Installation with Network Configuration Service H4518E H4518E

HP Color Expert Service 1-Year/1 case UF315E UF315E

HP Color Expert Service 1-Year/5 cases UF037E UF037E

For more information, visit our website at www.hp.com/go/designjetZ6100

Recommended system requirements

Macintosh Mac OS X v 10.2.8, 10.3, 10.4: 1 GHz PowerPC G4,

256 MB, 512 MB available hard disk space

Windows Microsoft Windows 2000, XP Home, XP Professional:

Pentium IV, 3 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 2 GB available hard disk

Dimensions (w x d x h)

Printer with stand 42-inch models

1970 x 700 x 1350 mm

60-inch models

2450 x 700 x 1350 mm

Shipping

 42-inch models

2260 x 750 x 1216 mm

60-inch models

2725 x 750 x 1361 mm

Weight

Printer with stand 42-inch models: 192 lb/87 kg

60-inch models: 242.5 lb/110 kg

Shipping 42-inch models: 429.9 lb/195 kg

60-inch models: 564.4 lb/256 kg

What’s in the box

42-inch models: Printer, Original HP 91 Printheads (4 x 2 colors each), Original HP 91

Ink Cartridges (8 x 775 ml), Original HP Maintenance Cartridge, Original HP Media

roll, stand and basket (42 in.), maintenance kit, spindle, three-inch spindle adaptor kit,

quick reference guide, setup poster, startup DVD, customer service guide, power cord

60-inch models: Printer, Original HP 91 Printheads (4 x 2 colors each), Original HP 91

Ink Cartridges (8 x 775 ml), Original HP Maintenance Cartridge, Original HP Media

roll, stand (60 in.), take-up reel (60 in.), maintenance kit, spindle, three-inch spindle

adaptor kit, quick reference guide, setup poster, startup DVD, customer service guide,

power cord

HP Designjet Z6100 42-inch Take-Up Reel—What’s in the box

Spindle (42-in.), tubes, deflector, sensor module, right module, left module, hardware kit

Package dimensions 1400 x 650 x 224 mm

Package weight 12.6 kg

HP Designjet Z6100 60-inch Media Bin—What’s in the box

Basket (60-inch), hardware kit, setup poster

Package dimensions 1766 x 135 x 190 mm

Package weight 4 kg

HP Designjet Z6100 User Maintenance Kit—What’s in the box

Plate cleaning kit, carriage interconnect wiper kit, printhead carriage lubrication kit,

roller lubrication kit, maintenance absorber

Package dimensions 10.8 x 10.8 x 2 in./275 x 275 x 50 mm

Package weight 1.3 lb/570 g

Ordering information

Product

Q6651A HP Designjet Z6100 42-inch Printer

Q6652A HP Designjet Z6100 60-inch Printer

Q6653A HP Designjet Z6100ps 42-inch Printer

Q6654A HP Designjet Z6100ps 60-inch Printer

Accessories

Q1277A HP Designjet 42-inch Scanner

Q5673A HP Designjet 256 MB Memory Upgrade

Q5680A HP Designjet High Speed USB 2.0 Card

Q6695A HP Advanced Profiling Solution International

Q6701A HP Advanced Profiling Solution Asia Pacific

Q6706A HP Designjet Z6100 42-inch Take-Up Reel

Q6707A HP Designjet Z6100 42-inch Spindle

Q6708A HP Designjet Z6100 60-inch Spindle

Q6714A HP Designjet Z6100 60-inch Media Bin

Q6715A HP Designjet Z6100 User Maintenance Kit

J7997G HP Jetdirect 630n IPv6 Gigabit Print Server

J7961G HP Jetdirect 635n IPv6/IPsec Print Server

Printheads (4)

C9460A HP 91 Matte Black and Cyan Printhead

C9461A HP 91 Magenta and Yellow Printhead

C9462A HP 91 Light Magenta and Light Cyan Printhead

C9463A HP 91 Photo Black and Light Gray Printhead

C9518A HP 91 Maintenance Cartridge

Single ink cartridges (8)

C9464A HP 91 775-ml Matte Black Ink Cartridge

C9465A HP 91 775-ml Photo Black Ink Cartridge

C9466A HP 91 775-ml Light Gray Ink Cartridge

C9467A HP 91 775-ml Cyan Ink Cartridge

C9468A HP 91 775-ml Magenta Ink Cartridge

C9469A HP 91 775-ml Yellow Ink Cartridge

C9470A HP 91 775-ml Light Cyan Ink Cartridge

C9471A HP 91 775-ml Light Magenta Ink Cartridge

Ink cartridge multipacks (8)

C9480A HP 91 775-ml 3-ink Matte Black Cartridges Multipack

C9481A HP 91 775-ml 3-ink Photo Black Cartridges Multipack

C9482A HP 91 775-ml 3-ink Light Gray Cartridges Multipack

C9483A HP 91 775-ml 3-ink Cyan Cartridges Multipack

C9484A HP 91 775-ml 3-ink Magenta Cartridges Multipack

C9485A HP 91 775-ml 3-ink Yellow Cartridges Multipack

C9486A HP 91 775-ml 3-ink Light Cyan Cartridges Multipack

C9487A HP 91 775-ml 3-ink Light Magenta Cartridges Multipack