HP's new PageWide Enterprise printers can print up to 75 pages per minute

HP launches a new line of PageWide printers for businesses

Update, May 27: Updated pricing following HP Singapore's official launch.

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Originally posted on April 6:

HP today unveiled a range of business printers intended to give the traditionally drab idea of business printing a new sheen of technological competence and huge productivity boosts. For starters, the company announced a new product line of PageWide printers, bringing its PageWide technology to printers small enough to fit into small offices.

PageWide printers were previously used in industrial settings like printing presses and repro houses, and the technology has since been repackaged for smaller business and first introduced in their Officejet Pro X series in 2013. Today's new PageWide business printers mark the first time that the series is being made available to regular offices on a larger scale.

True to their industrial roots, PageWide printers have the fastest print speeds out of all of HP’s business printers (up to 75ppm for the Enterprise Color 556 and MFP 586 models), in addition to professional color printing, best-in-class cost of ownership, and excellent energy efficiency. They are designed for small teams comprising between three and 15 people, and are a good fit for businesses which prioritize speed, low operating costs, and efficiency.

HP’s PageWide business printers are further subdivided into two more product lines – PageWide Pro and PageWide Enterprise. The latter offers additional features to suit larger operations, such as faster print speeds, beefier security, and support for higher-capacity input trays. Here’s a table summarizing the differences between the two:

As its name suggests, PageWide technology comprises a single, fixed print head that spans the entire width of an A4 page. Unlike other printing technologies, the print head is stationary at all times and only the paper moves. The print head features a total of 42,240 individual nozzles to eject ink onto the paper, and a thin film will automatically form over the nozzles after printing to seal and protect them from the environment.

Reliability has also been a key design consideration, so each nozzle has a backup, thus ensuring more reliable and consistent print quality. Furthermore, the fixed print head means that there are fewer moving parts – PageWide printers don’t even have drums, fusers, or transfer belts – which further improves reliability and reduces overall maintenance costs.

To cap it all off, the pigment-based ink used by the printers dry rapidly, and are water- and smear-resistant. HP even demonstrated this for us by pouring water onto a printed page, which had no discernible ill effect.

The new HP PageWide Pro business printers include:

• HP PageWide Pro 552dw
• HP PageWide Pro MFP 577dw
• HP PageWide Pro 452dw
• HP PageWide Pro MFP 477dw

The PageWide Pro 500 series printers are targeted at businesses printing up to 6,000 pages a month, with print speeds up to 70ppm. If that seems crazy, we assure it's totally legit; here is HP's previous large office printer solution with the Officejet Pro X576 that first broke the Guinnesss Book of World Records for the inkjet printer speeds:-

On the other hand, the PageWide Pro 400 series printers are intended for smaller-scale operations that print up to 4,500 pages a month, with print speeds up to 55ppm. Both the 400 and 500 series printers will be available at the end of April, with starting prices of S$1,099 and S$1,349 respectively.

Moving on, the line-up of PageWide Enterprise printers includes the following:

• HP PageWide Enterprise Color 556
• HP PageWide Enterprise Color MFP 586

These are for larger enterprises and work groups that print up to 15,000 pages a month and offer the fastest print speeds at up to 75ppm. Both printers are now available to buy. 

Source: HP.