In early June 2014, HP announced its PageWide
wide-format printers, indicating that this new generation of wide-format
printers would not be released until the second half of 2015. So, over a year away from the announcement
date!
(During the
month of June, I put up several posts about HP’s Page-Wide wide-format
printers. You can easily find those
posts, if you want to look back at what those posts said.)
When I wrote
about the (over one year) gap-in-time between the announcement date and the
release, I speculated that many reprographers would, for the next year,
hold off on orders for wide-format equipment – hold off on ordering OCE, KIP,
Canon, Xerox, Ricoh (and other brands of) wide-format equipment – not wanting
to invest in wide-format equipment that may, essentially, become obsolete
because of HP’s PageWide wide-format technology. In particular, that reprographers would hold
off on orders for black-and-white-only wide-format printers and KIP color
wide-format printers.
At the time
HP announced its PageWide wide-format technology, HP essentially claimed that
its technical document PageWide wide-format printers , which, per HP’s claims,
will print b&w and color
technical documents for the same cost, will be far faster than anything else on
the market and that the cost of operating its printers would be equal to or
less than the operating costs of non-HP black-and-white-only and color
wide-format printers.
Well, it’s
been six months since HP announced its PageWide wide-format technology.
What are reprographers thinking?
How about taking the brief, confidential
survey I’ve just posted on-line?
Link to Survey:
SURVEY IS NOW CLOSED, LINK REMOVED! RESULTS WILL BE POSTED SHORTLY.
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