Large format printers are a very suitable and often vital tool in producing hard copies of digitalized images like technical drawings, paintings, maps, and office documents. It is an important part of electronic document management, in which the first step is scanning. Thus it is, in several cases, desirable to have printers with scanning ability. This need is all the more obvious when it is necessary to produce enlarged images from drawings stored on microfilm. The conversion of real drawing into microfilm requires a scanner with medium resolution.

HP Design Jet 815 MFP is a printer-scanner with a resolution of 2400x1200 dpi. This make it right for scanning microfilms plus for any other scanning purpose, and it handles even broad, rigid media. It is designed to handle CAD output, GIS and graphics. It is able of scanning and printing both color and black and white images. The printer is of thermal inkjet type. It can direct widths of up to 42 inches and media as long as 50 feet.