HP PageWide Technology: Breakthrough speed, professional quality

Breakthrough speed, professional quality

Using breakthrough HP PageWide Technology, HP Officejet Pro X Series desktop printers and MFPs deliver up to twice the speed1 at up to half the printing cost compared with color laser printers.2 This new class of devices offer the best of both ink and toner technologies, including:

• Fast printing speed, up to 70 pages per minute in General Office quality mode

• Powerful savings—up to 50% lower cost per page than color laser printers2

• No-compromise print quality, reliability, and energy savings

• Compatibility with corporate enterprise networks for management and workflow solutions3

Original HP pigment inks deliver superb output quality and resist smearing on a broad range of papers. Plus, offices save money through low acquisition and operating costs and can save additional money and resources with an ENERGY

STAR® qualified device.

How HP PageWide Technology achieves breakthrough speed

HP PageWide Technology takes proven, advanced commercial printing technologies and scales them to a new class of multifunction printers designed to serve small workteams.

More than 40 thousand tiny nozzles on a stationary printhead that spans the width of a page deliver four colors of Original HP pigment ink onto a moving sheet of paper. Because the paper moves and the printhead doesn’t, HP Officejet Pro X Series printers are quiet and dependable offering laser-fast print speeds and a rapid first page out.

The HP Officejet Pro X Series comes standard with built-in duplex printing capability, two input trays, and copy, scan, and fax functionality on multifunction models. The key elements of the HP PageWide Technology platform producing high print quality,

speed, and reliability include:

• A pagewide array of 42,240 nozzles that produce ink drops with uniform drop weight,

speed, and trajectory

• 1,200 nozzles-per-inch native resolution for consistently high print quality

• HP Pigment Inks that provide controlled ink-paper interactions, high color saturation, dark, sharp, and crisp text, and rapid drying

• Precise control of paper motion for dependable print quality and reliable operation

• Automatic nozzle health sensing, active and passive nozzle substitution, and automatic printhead servicing for dependable print quality.

Building a PageWide printhead

HP Scalable Printing Technology

The dependable print quality, speed, and reliability of HP PageWide printers is made possible by HP Scalable Printing Technology (SPT)—the latest generation of HP Thermal Inkjet technology that employs ultra-precise and proven materials, design rules, and manufacturing processes.

SPT brings to printhead manufacturing the benefits of large-scale, precision processes developed for the production of integrated circuits. With SPT, all parts of the printhead, from thin-film integrated circuits to thick-film fluidic structures, are defined using a process known as photolithography, which can define very small structures. The ink passages, chambers, and nozzles in SPT printheads are produced with sub-micron precision to deliver every drop with uniform volume, speed, and trajectory for consistent image quality.

Figure 3 presents a schematic, cutaway view of an SPT-based Thermal Inkjet drop generator. On a silicon substrate, thin-film layers produce integrated electronic circuits and the resistors (or heaters) used to eject drops. A feed slot fabricated through the silicon (seen at the lower right) provides the ink supply to arrays of drop generator chambers placed on either side of the feed slot.

The PageWide printhead is designed to last the lifetime of an HP PageWide printer, and its reliable operation depends on robust contamination resistance. SPT enables the placement of tiny pillars (shown in Figure 3) that act as an ink filter, forming a barrier to particles that could enter and clog the drop generators.

The drop generator chamber and the orifice (nozzle) plate are made of the same photo-imageable polymer (shown in a tan color). To give a sense of scale, the thickness of the chamber and orifice plate is less than a human hair (~50 microns). This integrated structure is built up from the silicon through several steps involving polymer deposition, exposure, and development. To help ensure a long service life, the thin-film layers on the silicon substrate, ink feed slot, chamber, and orifice material all have high resistance to chemical interaction with the inks.

Summary

HP PageWide Technology delivers a new class of desktop printers and MFPs—reinventing the affordability and performance of business printing. The devices offer phenomenal value, outperforming in-class laser devices for speed.1,6 These devices deliver all‑around savings with less maintenance and fewer replaceable parts than most lasers,7 and lower energy consumption4,5 than in‑class laser printers. 19 You can count on professional-quality color documents produced with Original HP PageWide cartridges to be water-, smear-, and fade-resistant, for archival durability.

HP PageWide Technology breakthroughs enable the high performance and robust print quality of HP PageWide printers. Exceptional features include a PageWide printhead with a nozzle density of 1,200 per inch for each of four colors, controlled ink-to-paper interactions using HP pigment inks, precision paper motion control, automatic nozzle performance measurement, active and passive nozzle substitution, and automated printhead service routines that can restore nozzle operation.