HP Announces Z6100, set to replace 5500

Being a faithful 5500 owner, I was anxiously awaiting its replacement. As I've mentioned earlier, the 5500 is based off a printer thats over 5 years old now. The HP Z6100 printer claims to print up to 1134 sq ft/hr, almost 10 times what the 5500 was capable of. And on top of that, much better quality. This is a big stab at the iPF8000 and ipf9000, obviously, and we'll have to see how it does. Its supposed to be shown in Vegas tomorrow, can't wait for the reviews.

Only info I've found so far...
www.itsupplies.com/static/HPZ6100.html

Another dreary Monday

Today was rather blase, nothing too interesting. Made some prints off my Hp 5500, finally got my G5 to read it (an accomplishment none the less, but its no Onyx). Its still amazes me how you can use this printer like its own FTP server, just typing in its web address on your network and dropping files in. Not that I do that anymore, but none the less impressing. I suppose at home I could begin printing files at work to save some time if I was really in a crunch. Over all I haven't been thrilled with my 5500 lately, if it wasn't for the Pantone and the Postscript 3 it probably would have been gone a while ago. I don't do nearly enough posters etc to justify it, although it is by far the fastest printer I've used. The quality is still far behind the Epson's, which limits what I can do with it. If I were to start a sign shop, I think I would buy one of those and a W6400 ( Canon ). That's definitely a poster machine. How to start a Sign Shop coming soon...

In more news, I just switched over from www.typepad.com ( www.digitalprinter.typepad.com ) has my first post on it, I decided to opt for a free blog instead of a fee one. I need to save the money for the holidays, anyway.