Hey Tony,
As a printer of maps as our primary business, we’ve opted for the ‘production’ type over the ‘fine art’ style. Although we’ve generally opted for Canon printers over the
years & have gone through a half dozen or so of them, it looks like the Z6 is the HP version of what we’ve been running in our shop for years, so that would be my recommendation. If you were doing prints for photography or art reproductions then the Z9 but
for maps and posters on plain paper I’d go with the Z6. These things are expected to be run pretty frequently so if you don’t run prints on them every day I’d set up some kind of schedule so run a few prints each week just to keep things humming along. I hope
this is helpful!!
Paul Norrell
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Subject: Help choosing a large-scale printer
Hi all, I have a proposal to finally replace our 2005 era HP printer, out IT department came up with two finalists:
Which one would be better? We are only interested in plain-type paper, and we will use it to print maps and posters, primarily. We don’t expect a lot of volume either, since our population is rather small.
They came up with:
Tony Diaz
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