LAS VEGAS Mar. 8, 2007. The HP Designjet Z Photo Printer Series has been acknowledged with the DIMA Innovative Digital Product Award at the PMA 2007 International Convention and Trade Show in Las Vegas (USA).

DIMA Innovative Digital Product Awards are given to products or services utilizing new technologies and/or applications that make the product either distinct or the first of its kind.

We want to take this special opportunity to thank you for helping us to create the Z printers. Your constant feedback, knowledge sharing and care have helped us to create the Z Series printers, that are today distinguished with the DIMA Awards as "first of its kind".

For further information about the DIMA Innovative Digital Product Awards please read PMA News release http://www.pmai.org/index.cfm/ci_id/32954/la_id/1.htm

At HP we keep on working hard to find first in class products and solutions for creative professionals. And we continue to need your help in order to keep innovating and creating. Please keep sending us (through your main HP contact) your so valuable feedback and keep on sharing your experiences with us to help us creating better future products!

We also seized the opportunity to share the recently posted Wilhem Imaging Research "Print Permanence Ratings for HP Designjet Z3100 Printer and Vivera Pigment Inks" with some excellent durability results: 250 years** under glass with some of the media combinations! Please see http://www.wilhelm-research.com/hp/Z3100.html

**Wilhelm Imaging Research New Durability Results

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