Hewlett-Packard Company has announced the HP DeskJet 880C printer for home and small business users, an addition to its line of award-winning photo-quality DeskJet printers. Building on the success of the HP DeskJet 720C printer, the HP DeskJet 880C printer offers improved image quality, Faster printing speed and USB (Universal Serial Bus) connectivity. The HP DeskJet 880C supports the most common operating systems, including: MS DOS, Win3.lx, Win9x and Win NT. The HP DeskJet 880C is expected to sell at a targeted street price of (insert local price).
"Offering excellent text and image quality is no longer enough for today`s customers:` commented Birgit Neuhold, HP`s European DeskJet Product Manager. "Customers demand printers that offer an all-round balance of outstanding image quality, sharp black text and great print quality on plain paper combined with Fast printing, quiet operation, small operating space and advanced driver Features to make it easy to use. With HP` leading inkjet technology and software expertise, we continue to push Forward the boundaries of all these elements which are important to our customers."
The HP DeskJet 880C provides home users and business professionals with an all-round printer design for creative projects and general office work. The improvements to the award-winning HP DeskJet 720C design are:
Faster printing at the same quiet operation. Most competitive printers are almost twice as noisy. The printer produces up to 8 pages per minute in black and 5 pages per minute in colour (mixed text and colour graphics).
Improved image quality. HP`s improved PhotoRET II colour layering technology has been enhanced in the HP DeskJet 880C printer to deliver even better image quality. HP PhotoREt II colour layering technology precisely blends up to 16 tiny droplets of ink on each pixel to generate any one of thousands of colours without sacrificing print speed.
Universal Serial Bus as well as standard parallel port. USB offers plug and play Functionality.
Increased software Features. Poster-Printing: The HP DeskJet 880C printer enables users to create several poster sizes: a single image over 4, 9 or 16 A4 pages.
Hand-out printing: The new printer also offers hand-out printing which enables users to condense up to Four pages onto a single page, saving printing time, ink and paper.
Increased duty cycle to 2000 pages/month.
HP Printer Supplies are specifically designed to work with HP printers as part of a proprietary system which continuously produces crisp, sharp output every time. Every component of the HP printing process is finely tuned to work together. HP`s specially Formulated inks and toner bond with HP media to create superb colour or monochrome output.
Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and Intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognised for excellence in quality and support. HP has 124,600 employees and had revenue of $47.1 billion in its 1998 fiscal year.
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