Seven Ways HP SitePrint Unleashes the Power of Versatility

BuildingPoint Canada’s customers often ask us how adaptable our new HP SitePrint offering is to the diverse, real-world construction environments in which they work. So, in this newsletter, we outline several examples of this robotic layout solution’s versatility, and how its capabilities can drive productivity on your projects.

HP SitePrint is transforming the way construction crews plan and organize their work. It’s a robotic, autonomous printing solution for completing construction floor layout tasks.

Compared to conventional methods of layout, HP SitePrint’s precision and accuracy can make your layout specialists up to ten times more efficient. The SitePrint also prevents errors and clashes, reducing delays and costly rework throughout your construction project’s lifecycle.

Versatility

The HP SitePrint system’s key feature is its versatility. Here are seven examples of challenging working conditions in which HP SitePrint is able to deliver higher levels of accuracy and productivity.

1. Rough or Uneven Surfaces

Construction site floors present a wide range of surface profiles. Their degrees of roughness, levelness, and friction vary widely, depending on your project’s materials, methods, and working conditions.

The HP SitePrint’s 2-inch (50 mm) printhead sits 3/4” (19 mm) above your printing surface. This design enables the autonomous printer to instantly deliver easy-to-read layout and text, even when your site’s work surfaces are rough, tilted, or uneven.

2. Various Types of Surfaces

Construction site surfaces also vary in absorbency depending on what the surface is made from. HP SitePrint can deliver clear, legible layout and text on either porous or water-resistant work surfaces. The robot prints accurately on many types of surfaces such porous, rough concrete, asphalt, pavement, or plywood.

HP SitePrint produces equally effective and precise layouts on non-porous surfaces like polished concrete, terrazzo, vinyl, paint, or epoxy coatings.

3. Customizable Print Durability

For some sites, layout crews want their drawings to stay readable for months, other times they’d prefer a temporary layout that fades out within a week. HP SitePrint supports these differing requirements by taking advantage of HP’s printing expertise and range of specialty inks including:

• Fast-fading inks that last a few days
• Medium-fading inks that stay in place for weeks
• Slow-fading inks that crews can read for months

These flexible ink options enable projects to layout floor plans for multiple subcontractors and trades simultaneously with one easy-to-use tool.

4. Choice of Layout Colours

Colour coding your floor layouts is a simple way to differentiate construction elements. HP SitePrint’s water-based inks come in black, cyan, and magenta. Its solvent-based inks include blue, red, and black. This colour range lets layout crews markup colour-coded floor plans to guide multiple trades simultaneously using a single device.

5. Prints Points, Dashed Lines, Curves, and Even Text

Unlike conventional chalk lines, HP SitePrint does far more than draw straight lines. It reads directly from your CAD model and then instantly prints points, complex curves, multi-sided shapes, arcs, and circumferences directly onto your site floor.

HP SitePrint instantly delivers elaborate figures that even experienced layout teams find difficult to draw out accurately. It can even print text onto your site floor straight from your digital drawings, providing crews with written specifications, attributes, explanatory notes, or written warnings.

6. Hot or Cold Temperatures

Another advantage of HP SitePrint’s water and solvent-based ink portfolio is that it enables successful printing at a wide range of temperatures. The robot can layout floor plans in temperatures ranging from -10˚ C to 40˚ C, with relative humidity between 20% and 80%.

So, even freezing Canadian winter temperatures won’t stop your crews from getting layout work done with HP SitePrint.

7. Pick It Up and Take It Anywhere

The complete HP SitePrint weighs less than 25 pounds (11 kg) and has a built-in carrying handle. So, one worker can easily transport it around your active work sites.

HP designed the SitePrint’s rugged, hard-shell case specifically for construction environments. Its housing is durable, shock-resistant, and weatherproof, and its electrical connections are sealed against dust, dirt, and moisture.

Your crews can take the HP SitePrint just about anywhere and use it with confidence.

BuildingPoint Canada Can Help

As a Canadian distributor of the HP SitePrint solution, BuildingPoint is proud to offer contractors, sub-contractors, trades, and other project stakeholders a versatile, automated solution that saves time and reduces errors and project costs. HP SitePrint delivers the flexible, user-friendly, autonomous layout solution your crews need to save time, cut project costs, and make your business more competitive in a wide range of conditions.

BuildingPoint is committed to a cost-effective process that all stakeholders can apply at any phase of the design, build, and operate lifecycle of any structure.

To learn more about HP SitePrint’s versatile functions, or to request a customized price quotation for this adaptable layout tool that drives productivity, contact BuildingPoint Canada today.