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It’s small and light enough to sit on any standard office surface, while the care put into its looks won’t have aesthetes trying to hide it from view
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Compared to its older siblings, the ink cartridge capacities are modest — black (80ml); black (38ml); cyan, magenta, yellow (29ml). With 256MB memory and no hard drive to store queued jobs, the Designjet T120 is very much a ‘personal printer’. But this doesn’t mean it must be tethered to a computer via USB or Ethernet. It’s one of the first Designjets to offer WiFi built-in. WiFi is a standard feature in many desktop printers, but not wide format. Like all new HP Designjet ePrinters, the T120 is web-connected and supports HP Designjet ePrint & Share technology. This means users can print direct from a webbrowser, iPhone, iPad or Android device, or by sending an email to the machine. Documents stored on the ePrint & Share cloud service can also be accessed from the T120 using the touchscreen. HP’s touchscreen controls has also been refined. With a clean and simple user interface the 4.3-inch screen is easy to navigate, and extremely quick to pick up and to operate. The full colour screen presents clear and useful print previews where users can pan and zoom around a drawing prior to committing to print.
Conclusion The HP Designjet T120 looks to be an excellent proposition for the independent architect or engineer. It may lack the print throughput and workgroup capabilities of the more expensive members of the Designjet family, but it’s good to see HP hasn’t cut back on other key features, notably the touchscreen control, ePrint & Share and built in WiFi. The 2-in-1 print capability is also a clever way of reducing the cost and space of running two separate machines. At under £750 the T120 seems like a great piece of equipment for small offices, but the T520, another new addition to HP’s Designjet family, will arguably be the better option for those with more print heavy workflows. www.AECmag.com
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