Oldest wide-format printer winners

Oldest wide-format printer winners

Just before Sign and Digital UK this year GWL Colourlink resellers went on a mission to find the oldest wide-format inkjet printer and the oldest wide-format plan printer in the UK. The outcome is that the oldest wide-format inkjet printer (36in+ wide) has been identified as a HP Designjet 200 bought in 1991 and still working at Slater Engineering in North Yorkshire. 

The oldest plan printer (24in+ wide) winner was a fully operational curved glass light Diazo copier printer and ammonia wooden developing box circa 1950 at John Watson and Carter, in North Yorkshire.