Vutek makes those, too. 16′ wide inkjet printers!

It’s probably got like 1dpi on it.

next stop : ebay

Great FAKE!

Actually, e could use one of those. Wonder what substrates it can print..

* 6-color printing.
* Up to 448 dpi, with sharp 8-point text — perfect for POP/POS and other close viewing applications.
* Wide range of vibrant and durable colors.
not bad for banners/billboards..

fake, straight up, used to work for them

PC load letter, WTF is PC load letter. X 100

I’m sure there’s someone out there with a Giant Printer Fetish.

I’ve seen bigger, try 16 foot wide :p

According to HP the dpi is quite impressive:
“Choose the resolution and speed that best match each individual application.
Up to 400sqm/hr at 336 dpi.
Up to 200 sqm/hr in true 448 dpi.
Up to 100sqm/hr in apparent 600dpi.
Additional user-defined modes.”

I like the little blinking lights…. to warn people “Hey! F***ing massive printer! Watch ur fingers!”

Fake. Why would they make a printer that big look like a regular inkjet printer?

Photoshop?

That’s pretty big for an HP printer, but not all that large in the world of wide-format imaging. Stop by the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) annual trade show sometime and you’ll see much larger printers than that.

Holy Flying Speghetti Monster….I’m an HP certified technician and I just talked to my HP rep about this monster to find out the price. Are you ready……

$630,000

Of course, he said that they have other price plans as well, so I’m guessing this is the Base Model price.

Just FYI

The printout is mirrored….

* Up to 400sqm/hr at 336 dpi.
* Up to 200 sqm/hr in true 448 dpi.
* Up to 100sqm/hr in apparent 600dpi.
* Additional user-defined modes.

* Prints 140 posters 1.5m X 1.8m per hour
• 100 billboards per eight hour shift

Its weird that its designed like that, its like the same style as one on your desk, makes it look unreal haha

Actually its 448 dpi.

It actually has 600 dpi on it. I’m trying to imagine them using this for billboards without the ink smearing. Posters maybe but billboards?

Actually “Up to 448 dpi”, just a few more than 1

Just logged on the HP website and had a chat with one of their employees. The printer costs $630,000. Here is the log of the conversation:

Alina: Hello! My Name is Alina. Chatting from Beautiful Colorado. Welcome to HP chat! To assure I direct you to the right team for your business needs, please tell me the nature of your visit to chat today? (ie: technical support, pre-sales question, purchase, or quote)
Guest: Hi, Alina. How much is the HP Scitex TJ8300/TJ8500
Alina: Glad to assist you today! To ensure that you get to the correct specialist. Are you a government agency or an institution that receives any type of government funding?
Guest: No. Just a private party
Alina: Will you be retaining ownership of this product or reselling it?
Guest: Ownership.
Guest: Is there a discount for a purchase of more then 1?
Alina: Thank you for the information, The price for the HP Scitex TJ8300 six color solvent ink roll to drum printer is approx. $630,000.

Try 600dpi Jeremy

448 dpi
:O

I hate to say it, but it’s actually a monitor on the right.

Man, imagine trying to find ink cartridges for that thing at Best Buy.

Scitex actually has a bigger version as well. I think this one goes for about $200k

600 dpi, actually. And it’s fast!

Really, this printer isn’t very outside of the norms for the printing industry - many companies make wide-format inkjets, including Vutek / EFI and Mutoh.

This one is just comical because the plastic panels make it look like an $100 desktop inkjet.

I like how they made it look like a regular, everyday inkjet

WTF?

Is that Simon Pegg!?

Looks fake to me.

i do have to say, nice photochop job

I was convinced this was fake until I saw the page for it on HP’s site. Good lord, that thing is huge. Imagine changing the cartridges…or how much they’d cost.

I work in the sign industry and “large format” printers are in almost every city. Most about that size are going to cost $50,000-$250,000 depending on size and DPI. The current generation printers are normally 720 dpi, but the HP shown is built for photo quality and is higher dpi and very fast (probably close to $250,000). Gandinnovations(http://gandinnovations.com), as well as other companies, make printers up to 16.6′ wide. The ink runs $100-$150/Liter. If you want to see really huge printers google “Heidelberg printers”, they run about $2 million and are the equililent of a xerox copier the size of a room.

I wonder if you can find the toner cartridges at Fry’s?!? No? Ahwell, i would have bought two of these bad boys for N+1.

Actually seems to be 336 dpi bad if you need to print a couple thousand posters.

boring stupid fake

“Flexible printing modes
Choose the resolution and speed that best match each individual application.

* Up to 400sqm/hr at 336 dpi.
* Up to 200 sqm/hr in true 448 dpi.
* Up to 100sqm/hr in apparent 600dpi.
* Additional user-defined modes.”
Way to read, asshole.

We run one of those, here in Tempe, AZ.. superbad! 4400sqft/hour.

What do you think prints those billboards you see on the side of the highway. Those things sure don’t print themselves.

DPI is actually around 450. Finding an image that size - whole different problem. My workplace just got one of these. I thought it was the most absurd thing I’ve ever seen.

A better printer is the Epson Stylus Pro 11880 ColorBurst

http://www.epson.ca/cgi-bin/ceStore/WideFormat/WideFormatDetail.jsp?cookies=no&oid=-13992&infoType=Overview&category=Wide+Format+Printers

Its just a friggin A0 plotter with a stupid casing

Just think of the bigger than lifesize porn you could print out

Max page size: 163 x 360 cm

Best-Quality mode: 600 dpi (apparent)
High Quality mode: 448 dpi
Production mode: 336 dpi

That is a disgustingly large printer. Hope those who buy it make sure they don’t waste the paper/ink.

imagine the porn printouts on that one

Freaking stupid… bury.

That is just a monitor, not a PC on the side. I am sure all the electronics are inside it.

I’ve seen and worked around one of those, they are super fast…

The banner/image that spits out of it when finished comes out super fast, because it uses a drum to print rather than ink jets.

pretty cool technology there.

-je

that looks amazing. i’d buy like four of them.

http://www.gordonphoto.net

You probably need a fork lift to replace the ink cartridges…

paper jams could be fatal.

@1: Actually it has 448dpi, it’s suitable for point of sale print jobs which is a close-viewing application so it has to look good.

Keep in mind, this is a printer that measures its’ speed in square meters per hour.

photoshop ftw

I love how it appears they went out of their way to make the frickin’ thing look just like a normal desktop printer, but, just really, really big.

I used to work for a printing company, and I’ve seen bigger. I believe the ink cartridge was a 3-5 gallon per color…

That’s huge, no doubt. You should check out graphexpo in Chicago next year, if you want to see bigger.

And still.. the ink cartridges only hold about 10ml of ink…

Best-Quality mode: 600 dpi (apparent)
High Quality mode: 448 dpi
Production mode: 336 dpi

If it’s a billboard printer, of course it won’t be 1 dpi.

The irony is that it’s an HP and will need the drivers reinstalled every month or so, and probably sh*t the bed in about a year, just out of the warranty range, requiring the owner to duplicate the purchase on a yearly basis until he’s fed up enough to buy either a Lexmark or Canon

Wow, that is one serious piece of equipment! I wonder why it’s necessary to go so big? Surely the engineers could come up with something a little more compact? I love this “ROI obtainable within a year, depending on usage”. Depending on usage indeed.

That one’s tiny. Take a look at the XL2200:

http://h30267.www3.hp.com/country/us/en/products/wide_format/index.html?pageseq=556750

To reply to another comment, the one pictured supports up to 448 dpi.

Sure, you rush out and you buy a ink jet printer for what seems like a low price, but then you have to shell out almost the same amount you paid for it just to get new ink cartridges…

(in this case, ink cartridges roughly the size of a VW bug)

It’s called the

HP Turbo Jet

it’s about 1.2 mil

Super Color in Irvine, CA has one.

http://www.supercolor.com

Large format inkjet printers are nothing new. They’ve typically been reserved for laminate printing in print warehouses. Thats how you get large display banners on the fronts of trade show tables and any other signage or banners. They are typically not sold commercially like this one but do come in much larger widths. This one is actually fairly fat and resembles a typical desk model inkjet. Professional models come in a wide range of dpi and resemble something of a CAD printer, much thinner. Nice find though on this consumer model.

If jeremy had taken the time to look at the specs he might have seen that they state:

“Up to 448 dpi, with sharp 8-point text — perfect for POP/POS and other close viewing applications.”

Remind me never to invite you to a print shop of any size. I think you would run out of pants far to quickly. You make it sound like this is the first printer of its class. ^.^;;

Want a real wide format printer? get a Roland. HP blows.

I’m going to have to agree with the photo scaring you part… scares me too. I think it’s because it’s so huge, but is modeled to look like a normal inkjet. It’s just… awkward.

Gotta love how people *hindenburg* assume something is *titanic* is photochopped when *spruce goose* it is really large, small or outrageous in some way. We do some pretty odd stuff for no reason at all, let alone when a corporation is involved.

Physical characteristics Machine: Size (HWD): 203 x 400 x 325cm (80 x 158 x 128”)**
Weight: 2,700kg (5,952lb)

Total site requirement size: HP Scitex TJ8300: 2.25x 7.5 x 19m (10.5 x 25 x 62ft)
HP Scitex TJ8500: 3.25 x 9 x 10m (10.5 x 33 x33ft)

OMG, it can’t be real!!

yes well all well and good fun …great it can print
large pictures…but i mean cmon people we are forgetting
the most important thing…kodak easy share…i mean..for 630 grand..
if it doesnt have kodak easy share..how the hell can
i share my family photos with the whole state?

can it do ‘perfect family prints” with a single touch of a button
630 grand is very cheap for a billboard advertising..i mean u make the cost of that
with like 2 contracts

Power Consumption: 41 KVA max.
41 KVA??? Hmm…
That’s less than 1.21 gigawatts!

That does not look real at all. Is that for real?

I love how people automatically just say “Photoshop” like any of you have even 1/2 a clue. f you’d just pay attention even a little bit, you’d click on the link to the actual HP web site to see the product and its full specs. I actually chatted with an HP rep and this monster is almost 3 f-ing tons and costs approx $630,000.

If you wrote the word “Photoshop” in your post, please punch yourself in the face right now.

I think it’s a fake. Look at the feet on that thing, it looks like the little cheap plastic feet you would see on some printers. I would think a real one would have a series of rollers going across the bottom.

Just so you all know: that printer isn’t that big at all. In fact, I used to work in a print shop with a printer that wide or wider, and it’s not that big of a deal. That looks like a buttload of work to move it compared to the one I used. This one does print faster than the one I used, but the quality on ours was better.

What the hell are you guys talking about?? This isn’t a FAKE - I have quoted customers on this model printer - prints massive banners on most surfaces - canvas, vinyl, PVC…

*facepalm* at the dumb cunts yelling “FAKE” “PHOTOSHOP FTW” etc.
Unless you’re telling me the blogger hacked the HP site to put up a fake page with the fake pictures on it, posed as fake customers, hacked the live help service so he got every message relating to this printer, and in turn replied to every single one, for the sake of a laugh.

Unless he, in fact, really did. If so, fucking bravo.

seriously…how many more are going to scream fake? take more than a 5 second glimpse into the print industry and this thing is tiny in comparison. consider a modern press can be a few stories tall and a couple hundred feet long..it’s just a baby.

Certainly a big thing, but needless-ly so, you can buy 5metre printers that are no-where near as deep as that, nd print at iup to 1440dpi, amazing resolution (if you can get your artwork to that size)

I work with two 1600mm wide 1440dpi printers all day long, they’re great, and one is in fact an HP !

this printer has over 400dpi, crazy

Heh…reminds me of an overglorified version of the HP Plotter we had to use at work for printing maps, presentations, and posters. Same size output, but this one definately produces some much higher quality print jobs. I don’t know why they felt the need to make the casing so large on this thing though.

I have a 44 inch printer right here in my studio. It prints excellent quality on a roll of paper. It uses 12 separate ink cartridges.

Will it Blend ?
That is the question !

Wow that is really cool yet a total a waste of ink and technology.

Still cool.

looks like printer just bigger ….

is that for real or just a marketing gimmick?

http://www.floors4u.net

It’s not a fake, door knob… go to HP’s site and enter HP Scitex TJ8300/TJ8500 in the search window and the thing shows up exactly as pictured here. And yes… there are bigger printers than this one out there. Sheeece!

FAKE A LOT!!!!

I’d love to see what the carts for this look like.

I wonder what is the use of such big printer. Signboards??

fake, straight up, used to work for them