HP Designjet T2300 eMFP and ePrint & Share is the first-ever wide format printer that comes with web-ready printing system with MFP benefits. The new HP Designjet T2300 eMFP promotes sophisticated workflows with HP ePrint & Share.
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Compare HP Designjet T2300 eMFP with HP Designjet T1200 HD MFP
The HP Designjet T2300 eMFP has integrated the HP Designjet wide format printer, 36-inch large format scanner and the PC that served as the connectivity interface for both scanner and printer into one single device.
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There is no significant improvement in term of print productivity. The mechanical printing time exclude file processing time is still maintain at 28 seconds per A1 size with Economode on.
In term of color images printing, the HP Designjet T2300 eMFP is able to produce 41m2/hr (445 ft2/hr) with ‘Fast’ settings under Economode as compared to 51m2/hr (549 ft2/hr) for HP Designjet T1200 HD MFP under the same settings.
But there is no improvement on printing speed for images printing with ‘Best’ settings. Both HP Designjet T2300 eMFP and HP Designjet T1200 HD MFP mechanical printing time for color images at ‘Best’ settings with Economode on is 3.1m2/hr.
In term of color images printing, the HP Designjet T2300 eMFP is able to produce 41m2/hr (445 ft2/hr) with ‘Fast’ settings under Economode as compared to 51m2/hr (549 ft2/hr) for HP Designjet T1200 HD MFP under the same settings.
But there is no improvement on printing speed for images printing with ‘Best’ settings. Both HP Designjet T2300 eMFP and HP Designjet T1200 HD MFP mechanical printing time for color images at ‘Best’ settings with Economode on is 3.1m2/hr.
The print quality of HP Designjet T2300 eMFP with Fast mode settings as compared with HP Designjet T1200 HD MFP with the same settings is questionable as the printer driver development of HP Designjet T2300 eMFP may had compromised the print quality in exchange with higher productivity.
Evaluation on this doubt will be published upon further review is done.
Optical Scanner Specifications:
Apparently HP Designjet T1200 HD Multifunction Printer comes with a better performance and more versatile scanner.
The HP Designjet T1200 HD MFP color scanning speed is at 5.1cm/sec (2 in/sec) while the HP Designjet T2300 eMFP color scanning speed has reduced to 3.81 cm/sec (1.5 in/sec).
For black and white or greyscale scanning performance, the HP Designjet T1200 HD MFP is rated to be at 15.2 cm/sec (6 in/sec) while the HP Designjet T2300 eMFP is performing at 11.43 cm/sec (4.5 in/sec).
The media thickness for the HP Designjet T1200 HD MFP is up to 15mm (0.6 in) while the thickness allowance for the new HP Designjet T2300 eMFP has reduced significantly to 0.8mm (0.03 in).
It seems like a total downgrade on the scanning capability of the HP Designjet T2300 eMFP over the previous generation, HP Designjet T1200 HD MFP. A further review on the scan quality will be posted upon scanning test is done between them because the comparison need to made to justify if the scanning speeds of both series of MFPs are done under same quality settings.
The HP Designjet T1200 HD MFP color scanning speed is at 5.1cm/sec (2 in/sec) while the HP Designjet T2300 eMFP color scanning speed has reduced to 3.81 cm/sec (1.5 in/sec).
For black and white or greyscale scanning performance, the HP Designjet T1200 HD MFP is rated to be at 15.2 cm/sec (6 in/sec) while the HP Designjet T2300 eMFP is performing at 11.43 cm/sec (4.5 in/sec).
The media thickness for the HP Designjet T1200 HD MFP is up to 15mm (0.6 in) while the thickness allowance for the new HP Designjet T2300 eMFP has reduced significantly to 0.8mm (0.03 in).
It seems like a total downgrade on the scanning capability of the HP Designjet T2300 eMFP over the previous generation, HP Designjet T1200 HD MFP. A further review on the scan quality will be posted upon scanning test is done between them because the comparison need to made to justify if the scanning speeds of both series of MFPs are done under same quality settings.
Software Versatility:
The HP Designjet T2300 eMFP is a new milestone in the wide format printer world via its software capability.
Instead of performing file opening, sharing and sending via PC, the HP Designjet T2300 eMFP users have the option to perform some of these tasks via the touch screen user interface on the HP Designjet T2300 eMFP.
The HP Designjet T2300 eMFP executable tasks via the new touch screen interface with enhanced connectivity are as below:
1. Scan and upload content to the Web.
2. Print and share files over the Web/ touch screen (HP ePrint & Share)
3. Print direct from USB memory device.
4. Print to any web-connected HP Designjet (HP ePrint & Share)
5. Share files via email links
6. Etc.
Instead of performing file opening, sharing and sending via PC, the HP Designjet T2300 eMFP users have the option to perform some of these tasks via the touch screen user interface on the HP Designjet T2300 eMFP.
The HP Designjet T2300 eMFP executable tasks via the new touch screen interface with enhanced connectivity are as below:
1. Scan and upload content to the Web.
2. Print and share files over the Web/ touch screen (HP ePrint & Share)
3. Print direct from USB memory device.
4. Print to any web-connected HP Designjet (HP ePrint & Share)
5. Share files via email links
6. Etc.
HP Designjet T2300 eMFP Review in a Nut Shell:
This is a preliminary review on the HP Designjet T2300 eMFP with HP ePrint & Share. It is definitely going to bring excitement to the wide format multifunction printer industry with the evolutional interface and advanced connectivity.
But, users are advised to go back on the fundamentals prior to decision making such as defining your needs as below:
1. Print volume
2. Copy volume
3. Expected print productivity (Times needed to process, print and cut the paper, do not based on the mechanical printing time alone to make justification).
4. Expected scan productivity (Times needed to scan a document at desired scanning quality).
5. Existing technical documents workflows.
6. IT Compliance and securities issues with the new connectivity features offered by HP Designjet T2300 eMFP.
Last but not least, the major concern of mine would be the practicality of having the scanner and printer totally integrated into one single device.
Concerns as below:
1. A scanner, being a static device, mounted on the dynamic device (while printing, the print head is driven to left and to right, this create vibration), would it deteriorate the scanning quality in long run? An optical device is highly sensitive to vibration as it will lead to focus point misalignment.
2. A dynamic device will normally have more down times than a static device. Will the downtime of the printer affects the scanner for HP Designjet T2300 eMFP?
3. There are minimal mechanical parts for an optical scanner. The scanner will definitely outlast a printer for many times because the printer is considered a highly wear & tear device. Take HP Designjet T1200 HD MFP as example; if the printer is aged, and going for a replacement, the company has an option to maintain the scanner of the HP Designjet T1200 HD MFP, hence the capital investment would just be on the new large format printer.
Will HP Designjet T2300 eMFP has such flexibility?
*The large format scanner cost more than 2 times than a large format printer.
It is always a smarter way to focus on functionality and fundamentals over anything else.
But, users are advised to go back on the fundamentals prior to decision making such as defining your needs as below:
1. Print volume
2. Copy volume
3. Expected print productivity (Times needed to process, print and cut the paper, do not based on the mechanical printing time alone to make justification).
4. Expected scan productivity (Times needed to scan a document at desired scanning quality).
5. Existing technical documents workflows.
6. IT Compliance and securities issues with the new connectivity features offered by HP Designjet T2300 eMFP.
Last but not least, the major concern of mine would be the practicality of having the scanner and printer totally integrated into one single device.
Concerns as below:
1. A scanner, being a static device, mounted on the dynamic device (while printing, the print head is driven to left and to right, this create vibration), would it deteriorate the scanning quality in long run? An optical device is highly sensitive to vibration as it will lead to focus point misalignment.
2. A dynamic device will normally have more down times than a static device. Will the downtime of the printer affects the scanner for HP Designjet T2300 eMFP?
3. There are minimal mechanical parts for an optical scanner. The scanner will definitely outlast a printer for many times because the printer is considered a highly wear & tear device. Take HP Designjet T1200 HD MFP as example; if the printer is aged, and going for a replacement, the company has an option to maintain the scanner of the HP Designjet T1200 HD MFP, hence the capital investment would just be on the new large format printer.
Will HP Designjet T2300 eMFP has such flexibility?
*The large format scanner cost more than 2 times than a large format printer.
It is always a smarter way to focus on functionality and fundamentals over anything else.
15 comments:
I dont agree with your blog about hp. It is propagating against hp. And most videos shown by Canon are simply bias.
Ur comment on T2300e MFP is simply shown that you do not understand hp approach. One of the simple example is that u do not know the T2300 eMFP is a CIS scanner. It is designated to target lower budget and every 5 years will be a machines refreshment. U see? U simply blog but will be laughed by many on ur concern is not making sense at all. Pls find out more then blog properly my friend.
Hi Anonymous, you have got the point.
I agree with you that HP T2300 is positioned at very attractive price.
But the users is actually paying more because of the need to replace the entire MFP system (printer + scanner) in every 5 year*, it is going to cost a bomb.
The rational are as below:
1. A large format scanner is 2-3 times a large format printer price.
2. It is common to replace a large format printer in 5 year time, but not a large format scanner.
3. A large format scanner can easily last more than 10 year.
4. HP T2300 eMFP is forcing the users to change the scanner and printer as the scanner is integrated with the printer. (You've got this point right.)
How can you say HP T2300 eMFP is meant for low budget customers by knowing that the users have to pay for the cost for scanner and printer in every 5 year duration?
A part from that, HP T2300 eMFP does not really comply to green procurement (buying green) as the entire system (scanner + printer + touch screen panel) will be disposed in 5 year* time.
*Expected large format printer life span.
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The hp t2300 is a nice unit with a great scanner. That said we bought it and returned it becuase the plotter can not stack prints. To get it in and out of our office we had to pay a trucking company to carry it up 3 flights of stairs because it would not fit in our Freight Elevator. Our old hp1050 has a wire rack that stacks the sheets as they print out. the T2300 has a cloth basket that the drawing roll up into when we print. HP must have been cutting corners when they designed the plotter.
If you print out more than one sheet at a time like we do this is not the plotter for you.
We have a similar experience of returning the HP T2300 after paying the cost to ship it back and forth because it does not stack paper at all. We tried different way of rigging the cloth basket and putting different plotter wire rack but nothing works. It is hard to believe when the HP reps that come to our office claimed that nobody complain about the cloth basket. It is puzzling not to use the same wire rack that works fine on our current HP Designjet 4000 on this plotter to just cut cost. At the minimum they could have offer it as an option for people to buy the wire racks. They could also put more design effort if they want to use the cloth basket because today I see a demonstration of Canon iPF755 MFP plotter that use a similar cloth basket but their design works in stacking the paper. It is too bad that HP is not correcting the problem because this plotter/scanner combination could have dominated the market in this large format plotter price point.
dear sir,
hp design jet t2300 emfp have some issue with the scanner
1 when ever you scan you can not select the drawings width problem generate your drawings is cut form any of two side
2 you don't have any crop software so it is also a issue with me
3 when ever you scan the drawings it will come back that reduce the glass plate life it is over all failure product form hp if they don't solve this problem software of scanner now available with small scanner too.
if you face same problame mail me
vishang9@yahoo.co.in
I suppose getting a dedicated scanner, be it Colortrac or Contex is better than an integrated device which share on common power supply, PCBs and network port.
hp designjet is such a good, but can i have a hp scanner overview as well.
Thanks
I sold many HP T2300eMFP and last Friday a customer called me that the scanner would clip the 36" wide dwg. about 8-10" on the right hand side, customer was in a panic, so I went there today and could get the scanner to do anything wrong(Scanned)about 6-8 dwgs. Could it be that the scanner gets to hot when you scan 25+ dwgs at a time and maybe needs time to cool down? I solved the basket problem, I have a wonderful metal basket that stacks almost 100% Tony
Hi Tony, Maybe it is time to clean up the roller, or replace a new roller.
Would you like to share your metal basket design? You may send me the write-up and pictures, so that I can post them up over this LFP blog.
Print stacking is not an issue for us. We found that if you roll the cloth catch bin up onto the front or rear rail, clip it in place so that it is almost horizontal, 24x36" prints fall and stack nicely.
Mike
We just purchased this plotter and we are having the same basket issue. who wants to share thier design? we also have the issue when you use highlighters it smuges, any suggestions?
Liz
My issue is when scanning it goes to processing 1% then hangs up. I' be been scanning up to 7000 scans with a lot more to go. Any ideals?
Hi Gary, normally a large format scanner require a powerful controller to perform.
For example, the M40 scanner that comes with the Canon iPF MFP system require the controller specifications as below:
1. SATA HDD 7200rpm
2. Windows 7
For your case, if you are using the HP Designjet eMFP T2300, you may want to clear the HDD memory and try again. Second attempt would be upgrade firmware.
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