s Manual
Services
A number of standard services come in the printer box to enable you to print with confidence right from the start:
- HP Start-up Kit: Enables you to easily install the printer on your own. Includes: drivers for both Mac
®
and Windows
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, multimedia training in how to operate the
printer and PDF user manuals for easier consultation.
- Online HP Knowledge Center: Fit your printer into your workflow. Benefit from multimedia training sessions, step-by-step guides, access to relevant forums and
blogs, contact details for HP support and information on the latest drivers and firmware.
- HP Easy Printer Care (Windows
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) or Printer Utility (Mac
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) :This feature tells you how your printer is doing by sending you alerts on everything from job
accounting to color control.
See www.hp.com/go/graphic-arts for full details on all services.
For enhanced services, purchase from the HP Professional Graphic Services portfolio, which includes:
- HP Installation Care Pack Services: Makes it easy to get your printer up and running in minimum time. Stand alone and network options available.
- HP Color Expert Service powered by X-Rite Color Services: Problems getting the right color from your printer? Call one phone number for immediate, reliable
answers to all of your questions on color, color management software and hardware, RIPs, design applications, output devices, drivers and operating systems.
- HP Care Pack and Post-Warranty Services: Reduce downtime and mitigate the risk of unbudgeted repair costs. 3-5 year warranty extensions available.
See back page for ordering information and visit www.hp.com/go/pgs for more details on all options.
1. LCD front panel and direct access keys for ink supply
maintenance and print message alerts.
2. Front bypass slot accommodates media up to 24 in/610 mm
wide (24” printer) or up to 44 in/1117 mm (44” printer)
3. Mounted on the carriage, the embedded spectrophotometer
brings accurate profiling and precision color calibration
4. Rear USB 2.0 High Speed and 10/100 BT Ethernet connection
for TCP/IP. Free slot for additional network connectivity with
1 EIO HP Jetdirect card
5. Rear bypass slot handles heavy and rigid media of weights up
to 500 g/m
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and thickness up to 0.8 mm.
6. Roll feed (located at the back of the printer) feeds rolls up to
24 in/610 mm wide (for 24” printer) or up to 44 in/1117
mm (for 44” printer) and 300 ft/91 m long
7. Media bin
8. 8 HP Vivera pigment ink set with 4 pl & 6 pl drop size for
prints that resist fading for over 200 years
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HP Designjet Z2100 Printer series
HP-GL/2 Upgrade Kit. For CAD customers that need
improved line quality and network availability with the
HP-GL/2 software key. The printer, rather than the computer,
processes files for improved operating efficiency. Store
and reprint files from the printer queue and print legacy
HP-GL/2 files.
The Efi Designer Edition 5.1 XL for HP is the recommended
RIP and proofing application for your HP Designjet printer.
Integrating this enables CMYK workflow support, PostScript
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& PDF printing and accurate spot color management for
designers, photographers and other creative professionals.
A powerful, yet cost-effective digital proofing system that
allows full control over digital proofing needs to speed up
workflows, saving both time and money.
The HP Advanced Profiling Solution, powered by
GretagMacbeth™ technology, offers a color management
system that works in combination with the spectrophotometer
embedded in the printer. This automated solution enables
you to perform: monitor profiling and calibration, ambient
light and monitor-profile validation, RGB and CMYK
profiling with optimized inkjet separations for HP Media
in addition to the most common separations (Inkjet 260
and 400) and rigorous fine-tuning of printer color profiles.
A very intuitive profile-editing wizard lets you match
colors to various viewing conditions that use non-standard
illuminants.
Optional accessories
Additional 24” and 44” spindles make life easier for
professional photographers and graphic designers, spare
spindles mean that they can have different media types
ready to load. Also available, for design professionals
such as architects, engineers and GIS specialists, is
an additional 44” spindle for easy switching between
technical media rolls. This technical media spindle is
recommended for use with Plain, Bright White Bond,
Coated, Natural Tracing and Translucent Bond papers
and Vellum.