Wide Format

World-Leading Wide Format Printers and Scanners

At Konica Minolta we want to offer only the very best in Wide Format Printing and Scanning solutions. We’ve partnered with HP, a leading manufacturer, to offer a comprehensive range that provides you with the ultimate in choice and cost-effective quality. We have a wide range of large format printers for indoor and outdoor applications that offer high-value range of benefits to suit your unique business needs, with the utmost in professional quality and performance. Whether you are looking for a solution that can cater for:

• High demand project requirements
• Space saving workgroup needs
• High value multi-function solution convenience
• Breakthrough value and performance level
• Large format canvas printing

 

A huge range of flexible benefits with wide format printers and scanners

These printers have been developed to give you the best combination of affordability and performance to fulfil all your wide format printing needs. The printers are perfect for tasks spanning from architectural engineering and construction documents, to maps, posters, signs and photo enlargements as well as durable signage applications. The HP Design Jet range caters for technical drawings, maps, high impact graphics and professional photo quality prints. The DesignJet range includes:

• Office Wide Format Printers - ideal for individual or multiuser environments, delivering from black & white CAD drawings to colour presentations, while streamlining workflows with tools like automatic media-roll alignment and accurate print previews.
• Production Printers - turn jobs around in record time with market-leading technology that delivers fast print speeds. Produce AEC, CAD drawings, and high-quality photos, POP/POS, posters, canvas, backlits, banners, and event graphics.
• High Impact Graphic Printers - Achieve consistent, exceptional quality and efficient operation, whether you’re producing POP signs, banners, GIS, posters, presentations, photos, canvas, or backlits.
• Professional Photo Quality Printers - Produce professional photo- and gallery-quality fine art prints and photo enlargements, plus concept and contract proofs. HP DesignJet large-format professional photo printers offer a wide color gamut, so you can confidently deliver fine detail that satisfies even the most discerning art lover.

The HP Pagewide XL range is designed to:

• Produce high volume wide format monochrome and colour printing with up to 50% savings in total production costs for technical, GIS, maps and point-of-sale (POS) poster printing.
• Printer only or multifunction configurations and options including extra drawers for up to 6 rolls on board, and high capacity stacker or top stackers.

The HP Latex Production Printer range delivers :

• High-quality indoor or outdoor signage applications same-day, in widths up to 1.63 meters, all while keeping costs low.
• HP Latex printers use water-based Inks to ensure rich colours are produced accurately with several models available with White ink to provide advanced application —and all prints emerge dry, odour-free, and ready to use.
• Provide an extensive range of applications to diversify your business from vehicle graphics, to stunning outdoor displays, textiles, and more.

 

Boost production with accurate colour scanning

Whether your original documents are hand-drawn engineering drawings, B&W photos, or maps the HP large format scanner range offers options for CIS (Contact Image Sensor) or CCD (Charged Coupled Device) scanning technology.

• Easily reproduce AEC/CAD drawings, maps, and blueprints and even damaged originals with crisp lines and fine detail
• Produce incredibly accurate and high quality scans with 1200 dpi optical resolution
• Avoid reprints: large touchscreen to preview, enhance images; post-scan editing with HP SmartStream software
• Protect your data with advanced security: set up a password to scan to USB and access advanced settings
• Integrate and secure your workflow with seamless integration with HP PageWide XL and HP DesignJet printers
• Experience an uninterrupted workflow with the intuitive touchscreen controller for ultra-fast processing

 

What is the Difference Between a Plotter Printer and a Wide Format Printer?

The main difference between a plotter printer and a wide-format printer lies in how they operate and what they are used for. Plotter printers are designed to produce high-precision line drawings, making them ideal for technical tasks such as architectural blueprints, engineering designs, and CAD (Computer-Aided Design) projects. Instead of using traditional inkjet or laser methods, plotters use pens or digital print heads to draw continuous lines, which is why they’re perfect for tasks that require exact detail and accuracy. On the other hand, wide format printers are generally used for printing larger-scale images and graphics like posters, banners, or signage. Unlike plotters, wide format printers rely on inkjet technology to produce images in a variety of colours, shades, and patterns. They are excellent for businesses that need vibrant, detailed visual media on materials like canvas, vinyl, or photo paper. In short, plotter printers are best suited for precise line work and technical drawings, while wide format printers excel at producing high-quality visual prints on a larger scale.