HP PageWide Managed MFP P77760z: Inkjet printing for enterprises

HP Inc may well be optimum wide-spread for its LaserJet printers, however it’s additionally a big player within the inkjet market. The enterprise has long championed its PageWide inkjet technology as a sooner and more within your budget alternative to laser, and employed it to construct a few specialist massive-format options. greater lately HP has also launched PageWide Multi-characteristic Printers (MFPs) for the SME market. Now enterprise customers trying to find alternate options to the laser-powered copier/MFP are catered for, following HP’s enterprise printer revamp earlier this year.

Some sixteen new MFPs were protected in that launch, including the Samsung-engined colour LaserJet Managed MFP E77830 and three all-new enterprise class A3 PageWide MFPs. One of these is the all-singing, all-dancing PageWide Managed MFP P77760z, reviewed right here, which is just attainable on a managed print service (MPS) contract; the different two fashions are less smartly-certain pro units available for purchase outright.

PageWide revisited

For these new to PageWide, the main difference compared to the kind of computing device inkjets we all comprehend and love is that the inkjet head doesn’t move from side to side throughout the paper to print a document. as a substitute the mechanism is mounted and, because the name implies, made from a matrix of printheads unfold throughout the whole width of the page. That ability fewer moving parts, in conception making PageWide printers greater reliable and energy efficient than laser alternatives and in a position to very high throughput charges.

The PageWide print mechanism is fastened and made of an array of inkjet heads that stretch across the width of the web page, fed by using readily-changed ink cartridges.

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in the case of the P77760z the throughput ceiling is a good eighty A4 pages per minute (ppm), each in shade and black-and-white. On the downside it truly is at the rate of high-quality, these pages being printed in what HP calls familiar office mode. That pointed out, even with the option knowledgeable or laser-related mode that you would be able to still get 60 ppm, with the first page rising after around 7 seconds in every case.

when it comes to resolution the basic inkjet engine is rated at 600-via-600 dots per inch (dpi), optimised in software to give the equivalent of either 1200 by way of 1200 for most desirable monochrome and 2400 by means of 1200 for most fulfilling colour output. This makes for a versatile excessive-volume print engine that compares smartly with laser for usual office work, if now not rather up to the standard required with the aid of photographers and different worrying image experts.

PageWide also compares smartly when it involves consumables — there isn’t any want for any variety of drum or transfer belt, as in a laser, for instance. On the P77760z that translates into 4 clear and straightforward-to-swap cartridges for the inks — elementary tanks that slide in at the entrance with a decision of either regular skill (as much as 10,000 pages for black and eight,000 for every shade) or double that using high-yield cartridges.

Inks are clean and straightforward to alternate and are good for up to 20,000 pages (black) and 16,000 for the hues.

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On the draw back the inks are removed from competitively priced with a full set of high-yield cartridges, as an example, selling for £446 (ex. VAT) on HP’s web site. in addition, with the cartridges chipped, there is no compatible market or replenish alternative. That nonetheless works out at just 2-2.5 pence per A4 page, which is significantly decrease than for a laser in this expense bracket. The same goes for HP’s general ‘per-click on’ cost for its managed print carrier, which also includes all of the required upkeep.

observe that fees for A3 are not explicitly quoted however will, usually, be double these for A4.

Paper to head

optimum responsibility cycle for the PageWide MFP is 250,000 pages per month, although this is very a great deal a theoretical limit. For purposeful purposes HP recommends between 2,500 and 50,000 pages per thirty days, each for optimum reliability and comfort when it comes to consumable consumption and maintenance.

That stage of throughput naturally requires a whole lot of paper, and there is quite a number A3/A4 drawers and stands that will also be distinctive to boost the usual 650-sheet enter capacity all of the approach up to four,650 sheets, with a stapler/stacker/hole punch unit also attainable to deliver further finishing alternate options, if required.

a considerable number of A3/A4 drawers can also be introduced to bring paper capability as much as 4,650 sheets in total.

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all of the bells and whistles

In use it be very tough to tell that you simply’re printing the use of an inkjet internal the PageWide MFP instead of a laser. Plus, of course, you get double-sided printing as ordinary together with the entire different the extras you’d predict to find on a similar laser MFP, now not least a excessive-speed flatbed scanner, equipped with an automatic doc feeder effortlessly placed on good of the unit.

With a exact speed of a hundred photos/minute, the scanner is more than able to maintaining with the PageWide print engine, turning the P77760z into a true multifunction equipment comprehensive with an eight-inch coloration touchscreen and non-compulsory pull-out keyboard to control both scanning/copying and various other constructed-in strategies.

A scanner on desirable turns the PageWide printer into an A3 copier with a large touchscreen completing the seem.

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the entire commonplace alternate options can be found here to scan to electronic mail, to a network folder, a faraway workstation, a native USB machine and other alternatives, together with tools to control pictures earlier than saving, pleasant-tune copying etc. We found the interface responsive and intensely easy to comply with, thanks to HP’s efforts to offer a constant appear and feel across all of its printers and MFPs regardless of the technology on which they’re based.

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Then there are the bits you don’t continuously get to look, including a comprehensive set of safety points to in shape these discovered on the newest color LaserJet MFP. To this end, the PageWide MFP will scan its personal BIOS at power up and immediately replace a included ‘gold’ copy if any surprising alterations are found, as well as making use of whitelisting rules to make certain the printer simplest ever masses genuine HP firmware. The PageWide MFP also helps true-time intrusion detection, automatically rebooting in the adventure of a suspected assault.

other brilliant elements include constructed-in instant networking, including help for WiFi Direct printing, Bluetooth and NFC connectivity. The P77760x additionally advantages from a 1.5GHz processor supported by using 1.5GB of RAM and and inside 16GB SSD. Add in OCR and fax aid, and you get a extremely ready and well-detailed A3 MFP that can deal with the print, reproduction, scan and fax workloads of essentially the most traumatic corporations.

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