Wide Format Printers and Solutions for the Plans, Drawings, and Production Work That Won’t Wait
Your site supervisor needs a 230-page plan set by 7 AM tomorrow. Your wide format printer is running at one page a minute. Math says that’s almost four hours straight, if nothing jams. Last time it jammed, the printer deleted the whole scan and the wide-format operator started over at 1 AM. The vendor’s tech support line closed at 5 PM. The bid is due Friday. The contractor is on-site Monday. None of these deadlines are moveable.
Kelley Create’s Wide Format covers the printers, software, media, supplies, and service that make wide format work reliably for AEC, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and large-format graphics. Four wide format manufacturer brand partnerships so the equipment matches your print volume and use case. Real local service technicians. Dedicated supply courier. Exemplary on-site training. One partner. One service relationship. One reliable lynchpin.
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Wide Format Isn’t an Oversized Copier. The Expertise Difference Shows.
Wide format isn’t an oversized copier. The construction firm down the road found that out when their general-purpose copier vendor sold them a wide-format device that couldn’t keep up with blueprint volume. Now there’s a queue. Jobs that should take ten minutes take forty. Drawings come out off-color. The vendor that sold the device doesn’t have a wide-format specialist on staff.
The right partner doesn’t repackage a copier as a plotter. We deploy wide-format equipment built for actual blueprint, signage, and CAD volume, with specialists who understand the media and the workflow. That’s us.
What Is Wide Format Printing?
Wide format printing is print output beyond what standard office copiers and printers handle. Plans, drawings, banners, posters, point-of-sale signage, vehicle wraps, technical schematics, construction documents, architectural renderings, manufacturing specifications. Output sizes from 24 inches wide to 60+ inches wide. Roll-fed printers handling continuous output. Specialty media including polypropylene, vinyl, photo paper, and durable substrates for outdoor and weather-exposed applications.
Free Assessment of Your Wide Format Equipment, Print Volumes, and the Deadlines You’re Trying to Hit.
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How Kelley Create Delivers Wide Format Equipment and Service
Four phases. Understand the work, design what fits, install with training, then service when it matters most.
Current wide format inventory. Actual print volumes by department. Substrate and media needs. Deadline patterns. Honest assessment of what fits and what’s a bottleneck.
Right-sized equipment from the four wide format brands. Production-tier (HP PageWide XL) for high-volume AEC work. Mid-tier (HP Designjet, Canon imagePROGRAF) for engineering and design. Specialty equipment (Mutoh, Epson) for graphics and durability needs.
Equipment delivered, configured, and tested. Exemplary on-site training so the team uses the equipment properly. Roll loading, media settings, color profiles, queue management.
Local technicians for repairs. Dedicated supply courier when UPS sends damaged rolls. Phone lines that don’t close at 5pm. The service relationship that turns wide format from anxiety into reliability.
Wide Format Software, Media, and Supplies
Wide format equipment is half the story. Software, media, and supplies are the other half.
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RIP software, plot stations, queue management, network printing across multiple plotters. Setup so the team prints from CAD without manual conversion.
Local Expertise, National Reach
Wide format equipment is heavy, specialized, and deeply tied to local service relationships.
Local. Regional service technicians who know wide format equipment. On-site for installs, repairs, and the substrate troubleshooting wide format occasionally needs. Dedicated supply courier when UPS damages rolls.
National. Multi-location operations get consistent wide format standards across every site. Engineering firms with multiple offices, AEC partners coordinating across regions.
Why Partners Choose Kelley Create for Wide Format
Wide format specialists who work with these machines every day.
Not generalist copier reps who sell wide format on the side. People who’ve installed the big units for engineering firms, architects, and signage shops. They know which substrates work on which machine.
Equipment matched to production reality.
Production-tier where production volume justifies it. Mid-tier where mid-tier fits. No oversized investment in equipment that gets used twice a quarter, no undersized bottlenecks when the deadline is tomorrow.
Service that matches the deadline urgency.
Local technicians on same-day response. Dedicated supply courier when standard delivery fails. The service relationship wide format work requires.
Multiple brand partnerships, vendor-neutral.
HP PageWide XL for production AEC. Canon imagePROGRAF for technical color. Mutoh for outdoor graphics. Epson for photo-quality. The brand matches the use case.
Exemplary on-site training. Roll loading.
Media settings. Color profiles. Queue management. The training that makes the equipment deliver value.
Decades of wide format expertise. KIP 3000s.
HP PageWide. Seiko Teriostar. We’ve serviced the technology transitions. Partners stay with us 23 years across equipment generations because the relationship outlasts the gear.
Who Wide Format is For
AEC and structural engineering firms with plan-set production cycles that overwhelm office plotters.
Construction companies needing on-site documentation, plan reproduction, and submission packages on tight deadlines.
Manufacturing operations producing specifications, assembly drawings, and quality documentation in-house.
Large-format graphics operations producing trade show materials, signage, and indoor/outdoor display work.
Companies tired of vendors whose support disappears after the sale and ready for the service relationship wide format work requires.
Multi-location AEC and engineering operations needing consistent wide format equipment and service across every office.
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Multiple brand partnerships. Local service. Exemplary training.
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Ready to Talk About Your Wide Format Setup?
Whether you’re trying to make tomorrow morning’s deadline, replacing a six-year-old plotter that deletes scans, or building out wide format capacity for production AEC work, we start with an assessment. Real print volumes. Real deadline patterns. Real recommendations from four wide format brand partnerships.
Free assessment, no obligation. The wide-format operator should be home for dinner.
Frequently Asked Questions
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What's the difference between HP PageWide XL and HP Designjet?
PageWide XL is production-tier wide format. 20+ pages per minute, four-roll capacity, designed for high-volume AEC work and structural engineering production cycles. Designjet is mid-tier wide format suitable for technical drawings, CAD output, and architectural plotting at standard volumes. Different price points, different production capabilities.
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