HP offers families versatile four-color printer for under $200.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 1997-- Hewlett-Packard Company, the world's leading supplier of printers and scanners, today introduced the HP DeskJet DeskJet is a brand name for inkjet printers manufactured by Hewlett-Packard Company. These printers range from small domestic to large industrial models, although the largest models in the range have generally been dubbed DesignJet. 670C series color printers. The new printers, which replace the HP DeskJet 400 printer, offer built-in color, fast print speeds, superb print quality and versatile paper handling starting at breakthrough prices of about $199 (U.S.). The HP DeskJet 670C and 672C printers represent a price/performance milestone for HP and extend the company's leadership in the low-priced home-printer market. The printers are ideal for price-conscious first-time customers, including college students and families seeking an affordable color printer to replace their outdated dot-matrix printers. "HP is bringing its renowned inkjet printing technology to a new category of home customers," said Andrew Tallian, HP's consumer marketing manager for North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . "Priced lower than an average color TV, the HP DeskJet 670C series of printers are within the budget of almost any family that wants to add creative benefits of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color printing to a home computer." HP MAKES COLOR PRINTING “colour separation” redirects here. For other uses, see colour-separation overlay. Color printing is the reproduction of an image or text in color (as opposed to simpler black and white or monochrome printing). EASY AND VERSATILE The printers' dual-cartridge configuration and HP ColorSmart color technology take the guesswork out of color printing. ColorSmart automatically adjusts color settings to produce optimum results for text and graphics. The printers are simple to connect to the family PC and features easy-to-use installation software, on-screen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. help and HP PrintSmart technology for complete Microsoft(R) Windows(R) printing. The DeskJet 670C series of printers turns a home computer into a creativity station, adding vivid color and lively graphics to any document. The DeskJet 670C series printers also offer the versatility that home consumers need to produce everything from custom birthday cards and personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. calendars to professional-quality memos and presentations. In addition, the DeskJet 672C printer comes bundled with PrintPaks Pop-Up Greeting Card Kit II, which allows families to create clever greeting cards See e-card. with pop-up messages inside. Both printers provide outstanding print quality on plain paper, cards, envelopes, labels, transparencies and custom-sized papers for fun family projects. The DeskJet 670C series printers support a wide variety of customized papers, including HP Greeting Card Paper (a 20-card and 20-envelope package for an estimated average selling price The average sales price of goods or commodities. Especially used in the retail sector and technology distribution. of about $8.50), HP Bright White Paper (a 500-sheet package for an estimated average selling price of about $10.79), and HP Transparency Film (a 20-sheet package of film for an estimated average selling price of about $20.77). The printers feature a single-envelope feeder, which allows envelopes to be printed without removing paper from the input tray. The built-in input tray automatically feeds 100 sheets of paper, 50 transparencies, 20 envelopes or 30 cards. HP SPEED AND PERFORMANCE The DeskJet 670C series printers are among the fastest in their class. The printers produce up to 4 pages per minute (ppm) for black text and 1.5 ppm for color graphics The ability to display graphic images in colors. and images. The printers achieve 600 x 600 dots-per-inch (dpi) resolution for professional-quality black text printing and 600 x 300 dpi color printing for vivid graphics and images. BUILT TO LAST The printers are designed meet the output requirements of even the most demanding home projects. HP backs the DeskJet 670C series printers with a one-year limited warranty Limited warranty A warranty with certain conditions and limitations on the parts covered, type of damage covered, and/or time period for which the agreement is good. and offers an optional three-year extended warranty The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. . ABOUT HP HP is the world's leading supplier of hardcopy products that set the standard for technology, performance and reliability. HP's market-leading products include LaserJet and DeskJet printers, DesignJet large-format printers, ScanJet scanners, and OfficeJet all-in-one products. HP is the official information-technology hardware and maintenance supplier to the 1998 World Cup soccer tournament and the 1997 Tournament of France. Selected for its technology and skills to support and manage mission-critical applications, HP will help create an information-management infrastructure for handling game-scoring; media centers; personnel accreditation; hotel information; and various ticketing, stadium, warehouse and back-office operations. Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and Intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. It is the second-largest computer supplier in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , with computer-related revenue in excess of $31.4 billion in its 1996 fiscal year. HP has 112,800 employees and had revenue of $38.4 billion in its 1996 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com . -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Microsoft is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. Windows is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. CONTACT: Copithorne & Bellows PR (for HP) Betsy Higgins Noonen, 408/988-2100 betsy.noonen@cbpr.com Michele Spring, 408/988-2100 michele.spring@cbpr.com |
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