HP DesignJet Z9+ 24" PostScript Printer

Save your money and buy something else. If you leave it powered on, you'll burn hundreds of dollars in ink a year, and if you turn it off, the print heads will fail when you turn it back on.This is a complete piece of junk, and the worst investment I've ever made in a printer. HP support is non-existent - they're a shadow of the former company.Go buy an Epson, it's what I wish I'd done.

The software for the Z9 is terrible. The Z9 is my 5th HP large format printer. The last one was the Z3200. It was a good a printer, and with a few upgrades would have been a great printer. But HP had to go ahead and design a completely new printer. One that I feel was rushed and full of problems. Many compatibility issues with the Adobe Creative Cloud. Many hours on the phone with HP reps. They know the Z9 has problems and they don't have any solutions. The starter cartridges are ridiculously small. You will have to buy the full size ones right away at a cost of over €1,400.00. No USB connection for the printer. You have to use an ethernet connection. The Z9 runs a 5 step preparing print system every week that takes over 45 minutes. What a waste of time! I checked the ink level on a couple of low cartridges before the interruption. Ink level dropped by 3%. So every preparing print system it is wasting 3% of the ink cartridge's. You will have problems with this printer every week, if not every day. The HP techs said to leave the printer on all the time and let it go into sleep mode to avoid it from running the preparing print system. The problem is that the printer will randomly turn back on and will not go back into sleep mode. That is dangerous having the printer stay on constantly. Then you have to turn it off and risk it running the preparing print system again. I recommend going with the Canon imagePROGRAF

The set of starter inks had a few that were empty and the machine wouldn't go through set up without adding new set

The postscript printer did not have software/firmware installed. Working with technicians we finally got it working but it remains slower than the Z6 and only slightly faster than the T790 it replaced.

Completely regret the purchase. Poor color, lousy software, horrible hardware design. One example: There's a tab in the paper load area that is right in the way when you try to load a roll of paper. When you manage to get the paper past it, 9 times out of 10 it decides to cancel the load. On that 10th time, when you print, no matter how you send the data to the printer, it always prints in portrait mode. That is if it even prints at all, because for some reason it default to a 610mm printer instead of a 24 printer, and then won't print without an override on every single job. And if you don't print for a month, it'll eat 2-4% of your ink every month. At €1500/set, that's not acceptable. Worst printer ever. Save your money, buy something else.

Got this to replace my workhorse HP Z2100. First, it lists USB as a connection, but you can't actually connect to your computer via USB. Had to have IT come in and set up via internet. Device interface is confusing and very different from my old Z2100. Documentation is poor. No good videos on use/troubleshooting from HP. After less than one year - have to replace a Printhead. Only plus is fast, quality prints (after a drawn out initialization period.) Used to be a big fan of LF HP printers. Next one I buy will not be HP.