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Post Your HP5500/5000 Usage

Brandon708

Brandon708

New Member
I thought this would be fun to see how many miles you have on your HP5500's Also to see how much usage we can get out of them.

Who has the most ink & media square footage?

If you don't know how to check: Printer Setup Menu, Utilities, Usage, Print

Here is one of ours
Media Usage = 60,551 sf
UV Ink Usage = 58,874 ml
 

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Billct2

Billct2

Active Member
Thats my original one, I double my speed by adding a second used one a few years ago. Mostly paper.
 
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Tony McD

New Member
I bought my 5500uv new, and have only used uv inks.
Don't know why it shows any dye ink usage, unless it wasn't
really new from the dealer. Hmmmmm

Media Usage 16,358 sq ft
Dye Ink Usage 9,163 ml
UV Ink Usage 4,115 ml
 
WB

WB

New Member
mines at 38382.84 sf.

slowly stopped using it and now I think she's fried.. needs about $2000 worth of parts not sure if we're going to fix it or not.
 
ProColorGraphics

ProColorGraphics

New Member
Sorry to be a thread pirate, but I am wondering what kind of quality you can get out of these machines? Can you get real high photo quality prints?
 
ProColorGraphics

ProColorGraphics

New Member
Are ICC profiles more important on an aqueous printer? I know on my Roland, I have like 2 profiles that I use. Do they need to be matched specifically with each material you use?
 
WB

WB

New Member
I just found out ours is up for grabs if anyone is interested. We were going to fix it but are going to move more High quality stuff to the flatbed..
 
syn1ders

syn1ders

New Member
Designjet 5500 Usage Report
Media Usage (sq.ft) 293879.66
Media Usage (sq.meters) 27302.31
Dye Ink 10982.78 (ml.)

Cyan 550.19
Magenta 356.71
Yellow 1623.94
Black 644.98
Lt. Cyan 3800.97
Lt Magenta 4005.98

I Love this machine It's truly a work-horse I've had this machine since 2005.
I service her myself. 1 belt change just last week up and running perfectly well almost- I 'm now getting a error code 0f0100038d01c7
anyone have a clue what it means please feel free to let me know PS it still runs with error code.:cool1:
 
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bwizz

New Member
Machine 1
310205.63 sq ft
117909.75 ink (ml)

Machine 2
249017.89 sq ft
165876 ink (ml)

Machine 3
102056.38 sq ft
121896 ink (ml)


Machine 1&2 have now been upgraded for 2 z6100's, Machine 3 still kicking about doing the odd job's
 
Bly

Bly

New Member
5000:
Paper usage (sq/ft) 111169.59
Paper usage (sq/m) 10327.99
Dye ink usage (ml.) 49165
UV ink usage (ml.) 54382

5500:
Paper usage (sq/ft) 69454.33
Paper usage (sq/m) 6452.52
Dye ink usage (ml.) 5711.41
UV ink usage (ml.) 70746.73
 
ndowd

ndowd

New Member
5500:

Media: 48644
UV Ink: 34241

Ours is for sale as well let me know if you are interested.
 
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