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HP Designjet 4500 Printer series

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Overview

Maximize productivity with the HP Designjet 4500 Printer series: Its large media input and output capacity enable unattended performance, and that - combined with optional high performance scanning/copying capabilities 2 - makes it the ideal color production system for technical applications

This series incorporates large ink cartridges, two extra-long media rolls, and a flattening stacker that holds up to 200 plots, so you can handle large black-and-white or color jobs without intervention.

Features

  • HP Double Swath Technology, which delivers twice the performance in color and black and white. 1 (up to 2 A1/D-size in color and black and white in less than a minute and up to 100 A1/D-size per hour 3).
  • With two long-life HP printheads for each color, get a wider print swath & a higher firing frequency for fast printing.
  • Excellent value from new high-capacity HP 90 775 ml Black Ink Cartridge and 3-ink Cartridge Multipack and Value Packs.
  • Large, flexible input capacity, with two rolls to allow for different media types or sizes, as well as fast automatic roll switching and long roll support up to 575 feet or 175 meters.
  • Large output capacity, with the optional HP Designjet 4500 Stacker capable of flattening and stacking up to 200 plots.
  • Count on the reliability of HP printers and printing supplies to reduce your support costs and increase uptime.

Print both accurate lines and professional-quality images

  • Patented dye-based color and pigment-based black HP inks produce accurate lines(up to 0.1 percent accuracy) and images (up to 2400 x 1200 dpi).
  • Get the right colors on the first print from HP's Professional color technologies, including: enhanced sRGB printing and AdobeRGB, Closed Loop Color and more (See Print technology specifications).
  • Exceptional output quality enabled by HP media, and HP Smart technology in HP supplies ensures optimal print quality and ease of use.

Double your large format inkjet printer's 1 print capacity

  • HP Double Swath Technology, two long-life HP printheads for each color and the embedded processor deliver fast, simultaneous processing and printing.
  • Save time with the driverless multi-file printing workflow that is operating system independent.
  • Experience support for a wide range of formats, including TIFF, JPEG, CALS/G4, HP-RTL, HP-GL/2, as well as Adobe® PostScript Level 3 5 and PDF 1.5
  • Equipped with 256 MB of memory (expandable up to 512 MB) for excellent performance on even your most complex jobs.

Outstanding copy and scan performance

  • The HP Designjet 4500mfp achieves scan speeds of 3 inches (76mm) per second color and 10 inches (253mm) per second black and white, 2D/minute copy printing, and excellent image quality (508 dpi optical resolution) 4.
  • Easy to integrate with a wide variety of industry leading third-party scan applications such as raster-to-vector-conversion or document management.
  • Integrated copy system features realtime printer, media, and queue info in the scanner user interface, copy accounting in the printer, and copy job priority capability.
  • An easy-to-use touch screen, easy color calibration, and easy print settings for printing sets make scanning and copying exceptionally user friendly.

1Compared to any HP Designjet 600/700/800/1000 Printer series.
2The HP Designjet 4500 Scanner comes standard on the HP Designjet 4500mfp. It is an optional (not included, sold separately) accessory on the HP Designjet 4500 Printer and HP Designjet 4500ps Printer.
3Mechanical printing time. Printed in Fast mode on HP Bright White Inkjet Paper (Bond). Speed indicated is maximum printer speed.
4Multi-copy printing; Printed in Fast mode on HP Bright White Inkjet Paper (Bond). Speed indicated is maximum printer speed.
5PDF 1.5, Adobe® PostScript Level 3 support and PANTONE™ calibration are available on the HP Designjet 4500ps and HP Designjet 4500mfp only.



Basic Specification

Product specifications
Print technology HP Designjet 4500
HP Color Thermal Inkjet, HP Color Layering technology, Enhanced sRGB printing and Adobe RGB, Close Loop Color (CLC), TIFF and JPEG with embedded ICC profiles

*support of CMYK standards (SWOP, Euroscale), Black Point Compensation, CMYK plus support, automatic PANTONE® calibration

HP Designjet 4500mfp (Scan technology)
Triple 4-linear CCDs (RGB triplets+Panchromatic BW);
22500 pixels (RGB triplets);
24-bit color
8-bit graytone
Resolution HP Designjet 4500
Up to 2400 x 1200 optimized dpi from 1200 x 1200 input on glossy media

HP Designjet 4500mfp (Scan)
2400 dpi enhanced
Up to 508 x 508 dpi optical
Line accuracy +/- 0.1%
Ink technology 4-color, modular ink supplies: C, M, Y (225 and 400cc available), K (400 and 775cc)
Ink types Black pigmented, CMY dye-based
Print speeds HP Designjet 4500
25 sec A1/D size
1.55 sqm/min
93 sqm/hour
1000 sqft/hour, up to 100 D/A1-size prints per hour

Mechanical printing time. Printed in Fast mode on HP Bright White Inkjet Paper (Bond). Speed indicated is maximum printer speed.

HP Designjet 4500mfp (Linear scan speed)
Color (200 dpi): 7.6 cm/sec; black and white (200 dpi): 25.4 cm/secup
Paper handling HP Designjet 4500
Automatic roll feed: up to 575 feet long (175 meters)/ up to 7.08 inches (180mm) roll diameter

2 in, 3 in (50.8 mm, 76.1 mm) (2 rolls)
Automatic roll switching
Automatic cutter
Optional stacker

HP Designjet 4500mfp (Scan technology)
Straight-through scan paper path for single-sheet and cardboard originals, output basket.
Media / Memory
Media sizes HP Designjet 4500
Up to 42-in rolls
Thickness: up to 0.0157 in (up to 0.4 mm)
Weight: lb (50 to 328 g/m2)

HP Designjet 4500mfp (Scan technology)
Up to 43 inches (1092 mm) wide, up to 0.59 inches (15 mm) thick.
Media types HP Designjet 4500
Paper (plain, inkjet, coated, heavyweight coated, super heavyweight coated, semi-gloss, glossy, translucent bond, natural tracing, photo, vellum), film.

HP Designjet 4500mfp (Scan technology)
Non-abrasive paper, vellum, Mylar, sepia, blueprints, plastic film, plastic laminate, foam board, cardboard.
Memory HP Designjet 4500
256 MB (upgradable to 512 MB), 40 GB hard disk

HP Designjet 4500mfp (Scan technology)
256 MB (upgradable to 512 MB), 40 GB hard disk in Printer; 1 GB RAM, 30 GB hard disk in Scanner
Scan to CD/DVD HP Designjet 4500mfp (Scan technology)
Connectivity
Languages HP Designjet 4500
HP-GL/2, HP-RTL, TIFF, JPEG, CALS-G4

HP Designjet 4500ps
Adobe® PostScript Level 3, Adobe® PDF 1.5, HP-GL/2, HP-RTL, TIFF, JPEG, CALS-G4
Drivers HP Designjet 4500
HP-GL/2, HP-RTL, Windows® drivers, Adobe® PostScript Windows drivers*, ADI driver for AutoCAD® R14, support for AutoCAD 200x, Support for Citrix Metaframe environments, PostScript driver for Mac® OS 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.4

HP Designjet 4500mfp (Scan technology) and HP Designjet 4500ps only

HP Designjet 4500mfp (Scan technology)
Print/scan/copy software, Drivers for HP Designjet 500, 800, 1000, 4000, 4500 and 5000 series printers; Scan-copy-print software
Interfaces HP Designjet 4500
Standard:
Fast Ethernet (10/100 Mbps)**, 2 FireWire (IEEE-1394a compliant 400 Mbps), 1 EIO slot, embedded jedirect

** TCP/IP support only

Optional:
HP JetDirect 620n LAN card, HP JetDirect 40d Gigabit Print Server for the HP Designjet 4000 Printer series, HP Designjet 4000 Printer series High speed USB 2.0 card

HP Designjet 4500mfp (Scan technology)
FireWire IEEE1394, Fast Ethernet 10/100 Base-TX network card, USB 1, embedded jedirect.
Operating systems / Network
Network connectivity HP Designjet 4500
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, NT 4.0 Server, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Mac OS 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 Novell Netware and AppleTalk (not OS) available through Jetdirect
Optional: Citrix MetaFrame

HP Designjet 4500mfp (Scan technology)
NDPS (TCP/IP); Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, XP; (TCP/IP); Microsoft Windows 2000; IBM OS/2 WARP v 3.0, 4.0; (TCP/IP); HP-UX v 10.X, 11.X; Sun Solaris 2.5X, 2.6; IBM AIX v 3.2.5 and later; MPE-IX v 5.5 (TCP/IP); Mac OS 9.X and X (TCP/IP)
Environmental ratings
Operating temperature 56 to 86 °F/15 to 30 °C
Recommended operating temperature 59 to 86 °F/ 15 to 30 °C
Storage temperature -4 to 131 °F/-20 to 55 °C
Operating humidity 20 to 80% RH non-condensing
Recommmended humidity 25 to 75% RH
Power
Requirements HP Designjet 4500
Input voltage 100 to 127/220 to 240 VAC (± 10%) auto range, 6/3 amp maximum, 50/60 Hz (± 3 Hz)

HP Designjet 4500mfp (Scan technology)
100 to 240 VAC (+/- 10%), auto range, 50/60 Hz, 5 amp maximum
Consumption Maximum: 800 W
Standby: 105 W
Acoustics / Dimensions / Weight
Acoustics 53 dB(A)
Printer dimensions (w x d x h) HP Designjet 4500
76 x 31.5 x 53.2 in (1930 x 800 x 1350 mm)

HP Designjet 4500mfp (Scan technology)
70.8 x 40.2 x 54.3 in (1800 x 1020 x 1380 mm)
Shipping dimensions (w x d x h) HP Designjet 4500
83.9 x 30.5 x 52 in (2130 x 775 x 1320 mm)

HP Designjet 4500mfp (Scan technology)
75.2 x 27.2 x 28.7 in (1910 x 690 x 730 mm)
Printer weight HP Designjet 4500
408 lb (185 kg)

HP Designjet 4500mfp (Scan technology)
209.5 lb (95 kg)
Shipping weight HP Designjet 4500
501.1 lb (227.3 kg)

HP Designjet 4500mfp (Scan technology)
321.9 lb (76 kg)
Product certification
Safety Compliant with IEC 60950, including EU LVD and EN60950, CSA certified for US and Canada, Mexico NYCE, Argentina IRAM, Singapore PSB, Russia VNIIS, NEMKO, China CCC, Taiwan BSMI
Electromagnetic compatibility Compliant with Class A requirements including EU (EMC Directive), USA (FCC rules), Canada (DoC), Australia (ACA), New Zealand (MoC0, Japan (VCCI), Korea (MIC), Taiwan (BSMI)
Minimum system requirements
Windows Windows NT 4.0: Pentium II, 300 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 400 MB available hard disk space
Windows 2000, 2003 Server: Pentium II, 300 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 400 MB available hard disk space
Windows XP: Pentium III, 733 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 400 MB available hard disk space
Mac iMac G3, G4, G5 dual processor, iBook, PowerBook, eMac
Mac OS X v 10.2.8, 10.3, 10.4: 128 MB RAM, 256 MB available hard disk space
Ideal system requirements
Windows Windows NT 4.0: Pentium III, 733 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 2 GB available hard disk space
Windows 2000, 2003 Server: Pentium III, 733 MHz, 256 MB RAM, 2 GB available hard disk space
Windows XP: Pentium IV, 1 GHz, 256 MB RAM, 2 GB available hard disk space
Mac Mac OS X v10.2.8, 10.3, 10.4 1 GHz PowerPC G4, 256 MB, 512 MB available disk space




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