At the heart of the Z6200 are several new technologies including new printheads, inks and the third generation of its Omas media sensor, which the company said combined to produce a throughput of up to 140sqm per hour and saleable output three and a half times faster than rival machines from Epson and Canon at a comparable quality.

"The Z6200 isn’t just an upgrade to the Z6100, there are a lot of new elements that make this a ground-breaking product," claimed HP UK category manager Anne Sharp. "It offers high speed, top quality and a wide media range, including backlit."

A new eight-colour inkset uses five colours and three blacks/greys, which improve the colour gamut, the gloss and reduce bronzing. New colours include a chromatic red, magenta and light grey. Unusually, the new inkset doesn’t use cyan, which the firm said was a result of the chromatic red. Despite the lack of cyan the colour gamut is only slightly reduced in the blue/green and is increased elsewhere. Samples showed a full range of colours.

Pricing remains the same as the Z6100 at £8,300 for the 1,118mm model and £14,000 for the 1,524mm version. HP will unveil a trade-in price when the product ships on 1 November.

The two CAD machines are the T2300, which is based on the T1200 and is designed to make it easier to submit and share work via a new cloud-based service called ePrint & Share. The HP-hosted service allows simple job submission, sharing and project management including scan to print, scan to PDF, scan to cloud and simultaneous print and PDF creation, archive and distribution.

Finally the T7100 was described as offering LED speeds with a breakthrough total cost (TCO) of ownership, including low upfront hardware costs of just over £10,000.

"Traditionally LED has had a high acquisition cost and then high running costs, often hidden in a click charge," said Sharp.

HP claims that over three years the TCO of the T7100 was 50% that of a monochrome LED rival and 66% cheaper than colour inkjets.