HP Designjet Z3200 24-in PostScript Photo Printer Q6720B#B1K
Produce gallery-quality black-and-white, color prints

Overview:

This 12-ink HP Designjet, with new HP 73 Chromatic Red ink, delivers long-lasting gallery-quality prints in black and white and color. It enables easy calibration and profiling with its embedded spectrophotometer¹ and also delivers great ink efficiency².

Produce gallery-quality black-and-white and color prints

• Color and black-and-white print permanence of 200 years³ on a range of HP and HP Hahnemühle papers.
• Beautiful black-and-white prints have smooth transitions, true neutral grays thanks to the HP Quad-black ink set.
• Get exceptional gloss uniformity and minimize bronzing on most glossy photo papers with HP Gloss Enhancer.⁴
• This printer’s expanded color gamut achieves 95% PANTONE® coverage(5 enabled by its new chromatic red ink.
• Over 50 HP papers supported, from photo and fine art papers to coated and display-graphic printing materials.

Easily calibrate and profile with HP DreamColor Technologies

• Calibration and profiling are made simple with HP DreamColor Technologies and embedded spectrophotometer.¹
• Expect consistent color from print to print regardless of fluctuating environmental conditions.
• Simplify workflows: easily access, create, and share paper presets⁶ using the enhanced HP Color Center.
• Get questions answered with the HP Knowledge Center, and control color settings with Adobe® Photoshop^®.⁷

Achieve productive operation and great ink efficiency²

• Expect always-on quality with proactive automatic servicing routines that result in great ink efficiency.²
• Optical Drop Detector (ODD) prevents nozzle clogging and, as a result, printing errors and media waste.
• Rich, dark blacks on matte and glossy papers— and you don’t have to swap cartridges.
• This printer contains an HP Embedded Web Server, print previews, and other efficiency-enhancing features. Embedded TIFF, JPEG, and Adobe PS3/PDF RIP—enables direct job submission, queuing, nesting capabilities⁸ for a more efficient operation so you save time and money.
• Preserve resources and your budget. Predictable, reliable printing leads to more efficient printing, which is good for your business and can reduce the impact of printing on the environment.

The HP Designjet Z3200 Photo Printer series is ideal for professional photographers, digital fine artists, print service providers, graphic designers, and pre-press professionals who want to create:

• Gallery-quality prints
• Portraits
• Limited editions
• Albums
• Art reproductions
• Large-format designs
• Proofs

Easy calibration and profiling

The Designjet Z3200’s built-in X-Rite spectrophotometer and HP printer linearization and profiling software take the cost, effort, and guesswork out of printer color management. You are never more than a few mouse clicks and 20 minutes away from a professional ICC profile customized for your printer, paper, and environmental conditions. Custom HP profiles make the most of your Designjet’s extended color gamut in reds, blues, and greens whether using matte fine art paper, satin or glossy photo paper, canvas, backlit film, or any of a wide range of other compatible substrates. Perfectly neutral black-and-white prints with extended tonal range, fine shadow detail, and continuous tone appearance are all unlocked by custom HP printer profiles.

Add the optional HP/X-Rite Advanced Profiling Solution (standard on PostScript® models) for additional flexibility and functionality such as monitor calibration and profiling, RGB and CMYK printer profiling, profile verification, and profile editing.⁸

Simplify workflows—easily access, create, and share paper presets using the enhanced HP Color Center

An enhanced HP Color Center offers a single point of control for all color-related functions.

From there, you can download or easily create your own Paper Presets, and have the option of more control using advanced settings.

Create leading gallery-quality black-and-white and color prints with the Vivera Color Ink System

Color

Excellent gloss uniformity and minimal bronzing on glossy and semi-glossy papers; thanks to HP Gloss Enhancer.

B&W

New Red

The new HP 73 Chromatic Red ink provides a wide color gamut that meets the needs of photographers, graphic artists, and pre-press professionals alike.

Features:

HP Designjet Z3200 PostScript printer at a glance
	Additional features	Benefits
Save costs	Automatic nesting with margin controls	Optimize use of media when printing several images
	In-printer processing with embedded TIFF, JPEG, and Adobe PS3/PDF RIP	Free-up your computer processing time Print 16-bit TIFF and JPEG images with HP Embedded Web Server’s 16- to 8-bit LCED color converter
Advanced color management options	HP Advanced Profiling Solution	Calibrate your computer monitor (i1 display calibration device included) Edit RGB and CMYK ICC profiles More color patches for more sophisticated ICC profiles
	HP Professional PANTONE Emulation	Accurately achieve in-gamut colors and properly reproduce out-of-gamut colors Print customized spot color simulation swatch books for the media of your choice
Enhanced for workgroups and remote management	Driverless direct job submission Queuing Storage of files	Manage the printer remotely using HP Embedded Web Server: Send print jobs to the printer without having to open the image from an application, from any computer (no driver needed) Easily manage your print job queue Store jobs—with various print settings—on the printer for easy, frequent re-prints without ripping

HP Professional PANTONE Emulation

With 95% coverage of PANTONE colors, you can produce accurate spot-color proof prints for your design projects using the HP Designjet Z3200 PostScript printer.

• Assign PANTONE color names to graphical elements in your PS/PDF-capable design application, and have the printer automatically generate matching in-gamut colors and visually optimized equivalents for out-ofgamut colors, using a specific spot color rendering intent not available from standard ICC profiles*.
• Automatically create your own PANTONE swatch book illustrating the closest available match to PANTONE colors for the print medium selected. The printed color swatch comes with a numerical indication of how closely colors match, and the included device color values make it easier to create customized emulations for applications that do not support named colors completely**.

* For HP Professional PANTONE Emulation to work correctly, design applications must allow the assignment of the correct color name to design elements, and the name must be preserved intact in the PostScript or PDF file passed to a supported RIP with embedded HP Professional PANTONE Emulation technology. Since ink values are calculated based on colorimetric information present in an ICC profile, a correct and up-to-date ICC profile is required for the specific printer, inks, and media being used.
** These may be RGB or CMYK values, depending on your workflow.

Specifications:

HP Designjet Z3200 Photo Printer series
Print speedA
Best	12.4 min/page on D/A1 or up to 27.76 ft2/hr (2.58 m2/hr) on glossy media
Normal	7.2 min/page on D/A1 or up to 47.55 ft2/hr (4.42 m2/hr) on glossy media 3.8 min/page on D/A1 or up to 92.43 ft2/hr (8.59 m2/hr) on coated media
Draft	2 min/page on D/A1 or up to 182.93 ft2/hr (16.99 m2/hr) on coated media
Printing
Print resolution	Up to 2400 x 1200 optimized dpi
Margins (top x bottom x left x right)	Roll: 0.2 x 0.2 x 0.2 x 0.2 in/5 x 5 x 5 x 5 mm (borderless available on glossy/satin roll media) Sheet: 0.2 x 0.67 x 0.2 x 0.2 in/5 x 17 x 5 x 5 mm
Technology	HP Thermal Inkjet
Ink types	HP Vivera pigment inks
Ink colors	12: blue, green, magenta, chromatic red, yellow, gray, photo black, matte black, light cyan, light gray, light magenta, gloss enhancer
Ink drop	4 pl (lc, lm, lg, pK, E, G), 6 pl (M, Y, mK, R, GN, B)
Ink cartridge size	130 ml
Printheads	6
Nozzles	2112 per printhead (2 colors per printhead, 1056 nozzles per color)
Lightfastness	Approximately 200 yearsB fade resistance
Water resistance	Water-resistant on a range of HP creative and specialty media
Image quality
Color accuracy	Median < 1.6 dE2000, 95% of colors < 2.8 dE2000C
Short term color stability	< 1 dE2000 in less than 5 minutesD
Print-to-print repeatability	Average < 0.5 dE2000, 95% of colors < 1.4 dE2000D
Maximum optical density	4 L* min / 2.5 DE
Media
Handling	Sheetfeed, roll feed, automatic cutter (cuts all media except canvas)
Types	Photographic, proofing, fine art printing material, self-adhesive, banner and sign, bond and coated, film, backlit, fabric/textile
Weight	Up to 133 lb (500 g/m2)
Size	24-in models: 8.5 x 11 to 24 x 66 in (216 x 279 to 610 x 1676 mm) sheets; 11 to 24 in (279 to 610 mm) rolls 44-in models: 8.5 x 11 to 44 x 66 in (216 x 279 to 1118 x 1676 mm) sheets; 11 to 44 in (279 to 1118 mm) rolls
Thickness	Up to 31.5 mil (0.8 mm)
Memory
	256 MB standard memory, 80 GB hard disk
Connectivity
Interfaces (standard)	1 10/100Base-T Ethernet RJ-45 port (1000Base-T for ps models), 1 Hi-Speed USB 2.0 certified port, 1 EIO Jetdirect accessory slot
Interfaces (optional)	HP Jetdirect EIO print servers
Print languages	HP Designjet Z3200: HP PCL 3 GUI HP Designjet Z3200ps: Adobe® PostScript® 3™, Adobe PDF 1.6, TIFF, JPEG, HP PCL 3 GUI
Supported operating systems
	Windows® XP Home, XP Professional, XP Professional x64, Vista®, Server 2003, Mac OS X v 10.4 and 10.5
Dimensions (w x d x h)
Printer with standF	24-in models: 49.7 x 27.2 x 41.2 in (1262 x 690 x 1047 mm) 44-in models: 69.7 x 27.2 x 41.2 in (1770 x 690 x 1047 mm)
Shipping	24-in models: 57.8 x 30.7 x 29.1 in (1470 x 780 x 740 mm) (NA, LAR, EMEA) 65.3 x 30.3 x 23.2 in (1660 x 770 x 590 mm) (AP) 44-in models: 77.3 x 30.7 x 30.7 in (1965 x 780 x 780 mm)
Weight
Printer with standF	24-in models: 143 lb (65 kg) 44-in models: 189 lb (86 kg)
Shipping	24-in models: 57.8 x 30.7 x 29.1 in (1470 x 780 x 740 mm) (NA, LAR, EMEA) 65.3 x 30.3 x 23.2 in (1660 x 770 x 590 mm) (AP) 44-in models: 77.3 x 30.7 x 30.7 in (1965 x 780 x 780 mm)
Weight
Printer with standF	24-in models: 143 lb (65 kg) 44-in models: 189 lb (86 kg)
Shipping	24-in models: 225 lb (102 kg) (NA, LAR, EMEA); 88.5 kg (195) (AP) 44-in models: 271 lb (123 kg)
What’s in the box
HP Designjet Z3200 Photo Printer, spindle, printheads (6 x 2 colors), introductory ink cartridges (x12), Original HP media roll, stand(F, rear tray, adaptor kit (3 in) for spindle (x2), quick reference guide, set-up poster, USB cable, power cord, HP Start-up kit including printer software, HP Advanced Profiling Solution (PostScript models only)

A Mechanical printing time. Measured on a 44-in model.
B Display permanence rating by Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc. on a range of HP creative and specialty media. See www.hp.com/go/supplies/printpermanence
C ICC absolute colorimetric accuracy on HP Proofing Matte paper
D With HP Premium Instant Dry Photo Satin media, right after calibration
E With HP Premium Instant Dry Photo Gloss media
F Stand not included in the box in Asia Pacific for 24-in models

Environmental ranges
Operating temperature	41 to 104° F (5 to 40° C)
Recommended operating temperature	59 to 95° F (15 to 35° C)
Storage temperature	-13 to 131° F (-25 to 55° C)
Recommended operating humidity	20 to 80% RH
Storage humidity	0 to 95% RH
Acoustic
Sound pressure, active	49 dB(A)
Sound pressure, standby	29 dB(A)
Sound power, active	6.5 B(A)
Sound power, standby	4.4 B(A)
Power consumption
Maximum	200 watts
Power requirements	Input voltage (autoranging): 100 to 240 V ac (+/- 10%), 50/60 Hz (+/- 3 Hz), 2 amps max
Certification
Safety	IEC 60950-1 compliant, EU LVD and EN 60950-1 compliant, certified by CSA for Canada and US, Argentina IRAM, Singapore PSB, Russia GOST, China CCIB, Taiwan BSMI
Electromagnetic	Compliance for Class B products: EU (EMC Directive), USA (FCC rules), Canada (DoC), Australia (ACA), New Zealand(MoC), China (CCC), Japan (VCCI), Korea (MIC) and Taiwan (BSMI)
ENERGY STAR® qualified models	see: http://www.hp.com/go/energystar
Warranty
Warranty Support call 1-800-HP INVENT	One-year warranty with onsite, next business-day service

Footnotes

¹ Embedded in this HP Designjet Photo Printer is an i1 spectrophotometer from X-Rite. Close collaboration between HP and X-Rite ensures a reliable solution that’s been thoroughly tested to meet customer demands for ease, quality, and dependability.
² Based on internal HP testing, the HP Designjet Z3200 Photo Printer series utilizes at least 30% less ink during routine maintenance operations versus select printers from other vendors.
³ Image permanence estimates by HP Image Permanence Lab based on testing on a range of HP photo, fine art, and specialty papers: confirmation tests in progress at Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc. For details, see www.hp.com/go/supplies/printpermanence
⁴ Bronzing is minimized as an image-quality issue when HP gloss enhancer is used. HP gloss enhancer can be used on photo paper, with the exception of matte-finish papers.
⁵95% coverage of PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM® and PANTONE GoeTM System, based on HP internal testing (PANTONE approval pending). Please visit www.hp.com/go/Z3200/PANTONE for final results.
⁶ Visit www.hp.com/go/Z3200/paperpresets to find paper presets for HP and other commercially available media.
⁷ Avoid double color management when using Adobe Photoshop CS3 Improved Printing Experience—co-developed by HP—for both Mac and Windows Vista. Check www.hp.com/go/Z3200/solutions for more details on the exact configurations supported.
⁸ HP Professional PANTONE Emulation, HP Advanced Profiling Solution, remote management, queue management, nesting, job submission and storage capabilities, and support for 16-bit TIFF and JPEG files are standard on HP Designjet Z3200ps Photo printers only. HP Advanced Profiling Solution is also available as an accessory for HP Designjet Z3200 Photo Printers.

Documentation:

Download the HP Designjet Z3200 24-in PostScript Photo Printer Datasheet (.PDF)