The HP Designjet L25500 has been awarded the highest rating - “Exceptional” - by independent analysts BERTL for use in indoor/outdoor signage, banners and photographic images.
BERTL (the Business Equipment Research and Test Laboratories Inc.) is an independent testing laboratory whose purpose is to provide objective, independent product evaluation reports and comparative analyses. BERTL prohibits any manufacturer-control over its product evaluations, and bases its opinions, ratings and awards on a combination of rigourous analysis and research.
Shane Lucas, Director HP Graphic Arts South Pacific said he was delighted with the outcome of the independent analysis. “The global popularity of the HP Designjet L25500 has proven it is a great machine, but to have this ratified by the highly respected, and independent, BERTL analysts is very gratifying”.
In an extract from the analysis BERTL stated, “The eco-friendly HP Designjet L25500 (is) productive, easy to work with on a daily basis, and capable of producing exceptional colour image quality and a wide variety of printing applications.
BERTL analysts were very impressed with the HP Designjet L25500. HP has continued to move forward not only in printer mechanics, but also by offering new innovations in printing technologies. HP seems to have a true vision for the “big picture” when it comes to building a new, more efficient solution for durable wide format printing.
Some of the key features of the HP Designjet L25500 BERTL observed:
• Versatility delivers a broad range of indoor and outdoor applications while meeting the needs of environmentally conscious customers
• Printing on a wide range of media, including seven recyclable substrates, outdoor and indoor substrates, low cost, uncoated media of banner, self-adhesive, fabric, paper, mesh and specialty options
• HP Latex Inks produce odourless prints that allow placement in POP environments where odour is a concern
• The Designjet L25500 uses an embedded spectrophotometer to easily achieve accurate and consistent colour. When using a fleet of HP Designjet L25500 printers, users can expect uniformity in colour output between them
• Water-based HP Latex Inks are completely cured inside the printer to form a durable film on the print medium
• Prints exit the printer ready for finishing
• No daily manual printhead maintenance
• HP Double Swath technology staggers printheads eliminating swath-to-swath banding
The HP Designjet L25500 comes in a 42- and 60-inch version meeting the demands of small to medium businesses. Today’s customers are more environmentally conscious making this printer a perfect fit…The HP Designjet L25500 produces beautiful photographic quality prints. BERTL liked the clean, smooth, satin look that was produced. The skin tones were superb and the detail was sharp. We were impressed with the solidness and brightness of the colours produced…Overall the image quality was outstanding”.
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