In an ongoing effort to provide high-performance printing capabilities for business, HP has pioneered the development of HP Edgeline Technology, the first-of-its-kind, ink-based printing engine designed to meet the demands of high-volume workloads. HP Edgeline Technology opens the door to innovative printing solutions for businesses with high-volume printing requirements, including retailers, industrial printers and office environments. Fast printing speeds, outstanding print quality and reliability, and a low cost of operation are some of the primary benefits of HP Edgeline Technology.
HP engineers began developing HP Edgeline Technology by asking, "How can we make printing better?" Leveraging an unrivaled history in printing and imaging and some of the best engineering and design talent on the planet, HP developed a printing solution that would deliver excellent performance, reliability and cost-efficiency to meet the printing needs of businesses everywhere.
The HP Edgeline Technology advantage
HP Edgeline Technology is an ink-based printing engine designed with printheads that span the width of a page. In other words, with HP Edgeline Technology, the paper moves, not the printhead. It's that simple.
For increased printing speeds, HP Edgeline Technology printers use large, stationary printheads—arranged in a line—to dispense ink across the entire width of the page as the paper passes beneath them. The result is more accurate ink-drop placement and breathtaking print speeds for crisp, print-shop quality output—fast. Plus, the sophisticated printhead design delivers outstanding reliability, allowing for more printing up-time, less maintenance and a lower total cost of operation over time. To complement the new printhead design and increased speeds, HP has specially designed Vivera inks for each current printing system with HP Edgeline Technology to deliver leading print quality.
Next-generation printing
HP Edgeline Technology is already in use in HP Photosmart Express Station retail photo kiosks that deliver lightning-fast prints of digital photos. HP Photosmart Express Stations produce 4 x 6-inch photos fast—20 prints in about two minutes—at a price per photo that rivals the traditional photo lab. The photo print quality is outstanding. The HP Photosmart Express Station uses HP Vivera professional inks and a patented 6-ink system that prints smudge- and fade-resistant, brilliant photos that last for generations. HP Edgeline Technology also powers the recently introduced HP Photosmart pm1000 Microlab printer, which delivers photo lab-quality prints, fast—as fast as five seconds per print—from a compact, high-throughput mechanism that plugs into a retailer's existing photofinishing system. Color image quality without compromising on speed or cost: it's HP Edgeline Technology and HP Vivera inks that make it possible.
HP isn't stopping there
You'll start seeing HP Edgeline Technology in many more high-performance HP products-including industrial printers and light production. For example, HP announced the New HP CM8060/8050 Color MFP with Edgeline Technology in Spring 2007. The patented technology redefines business printing with the combined benefits of ink and laser in a single device: fast printing speeds, excellent print quality for text and graphics, a low cost per page and HP world-class reliability.
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