HP Designjet 5500/5500PS Printer

The high productivity solution to your large format printing needs, delivering true production speed, exceptional colour photo-quality images and reliable performance, with the added bonus of simplified workflow and increasing unattended operation.

HP's Designjet 5500 series is designed specifically to meet the exact standards of print service providers, graphics specialists and GIS imaging professionals who require exceptional image quality and reliable productivity.

Key features

• 6 cartridges: Fade-resistant dye-based inks (black, cyan, magenta, yellow, light cyan, light magenta) - UV inks available as upgrade option
• Sheet feed and roll feed with automatic cutter
• Available in 42" (1067mm) or 60" (1524mm)
• HP Jetdirect connectivity
• Up to 1200 x 600 dpi resolution
• Minimum line width 0.08mm, accuracy of +/- 0.02%
• Print speed (colour): from 5.6 m²/hr (photo quality, glossy) to 52.8 m²/hr (economic quality, coated)
• 680ml black and colour ink cartridges
• Drivers for Windows® (95, 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, XP and Vista) and Macintosh (OS 9.x, X, 10.2, 10.3)
• 128Mb RAM (Non PS), 256Mb RAM (PS)

Exceptional productivity and high speed you can rely on to produce outstanding large format prints.

• New production print modes mean higher speed: 9.29 m²/hr output for glossy, 17.56 m²/hr for coated media, printing at 52.86 m²/hr in maximum speed mode.
• Unrivalled data transmission speeds (4.5 MB/s) via a powerful HP Jetdirect 615n print server card.
• High capacity (680ml) ink cartridges and long-lasting printheads reduces user intervention and cost of ownership.
• HP Jetexpress printheads are extra wide for faster speed, with embedded digital logic for superior nozzle monitoring.

Get bright, breathtaking and colour-rich photo images every time you print

• Superb quality from six ink HP Colour Layering technology and 1200 dpi writing system provides a wide colour gamut, smooth transitions and continuous tones.
• Automatic closed-loop colour calibration gives colour consistency, print after print.
• Pantone® colour matching for printing Pantone spot or process colours directly from your application.
• Offset-printing press emulations (Euroscale, SWOP, DIC, TOYO, JMPA) and ICC profiles for Macintosh® and Windows®.

Experience intelligent printing solutions for simplified workflow and greater unattended operation

• Get easier connectivity in multi-platform environments (UNIX, Linux, Mac OS®, Windows®) from a new Web-file submitter that makes direct PDF and TIFF printing possible.
• Supports up to 7 internal printer languages: Adobe® PDF 1.3, PS 3(2), TIFF, JPEG, CALS/G4, HP RTL, HP GL2.
• No resending time for large files which can be stored on the new 40 GB hard disk using the Web-file submitter.
• Remote access to configurable printer alerts, job management, printer status, ink and media usage information.

Footnotes:

1. Solution tested with the following GIS applications: Autodesk Map, Bentley's MicroStation, ESRI's ArcMap in ArcGIS and GE Smallworld Core Spatial Technology.
2. HP Designjet 5500PS only.

For more information download the HP Designjet 5500 data sheet (PDF format).