Hi David, I've not had the issues you are talking about. Mind you, I don't commonly print anything beyond 36"x36". We have also maxed out the memory for our plotter and we don't have a hard drive on it either. Time wise, it takes ours approximately 5 minutes for a 36x36 map, depending on the detail. This would be for the entire city with street labels. We have a population of 35,000. I have set it to process the print job in the computer, and yes it does pause at each run across the page. I have only had to use this a couple of times though.
Don. David Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ah, someone else using a 1050c and Mapinfo. I've been hoping to run across someone else using these two to compare notes with. I maxed out the memory on our machine and really don't see a difference. If I print a large (54x36) map of our county,(with labels of roads). I see processing times (printer reports 'receiving') anywhere between 20 to 40 minutes. This is processing "before it ever starts to print". I tested yesterday, setting the printer config to "process in computer" as apposed to "in printer" and found that it took less time to transmit the data to the printer, but the printer then doesn't print very fast. (print heads pass and print, pause, pass and print etc.) We have not installed a hard drive to the printer. Any thoughts on this? Thanks, David Reid GIS Manager Colbert County E 9-1-1 Colbert County, Alabama This email and any attachments may contain confidential information. If you have received it in error, notify the sender immediately and delete the email. Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: Don Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 7:42 AM To: Matt Trigg Cc: MapInfo Directionsmag Subject: Re: MI-L HP Designjet 1050 Hi Matt, We use the HP 1050C here. We use it for printing maps from MapInfo and engineering drawings from AutoCAD. We print plain paper maps and mylars for our engineering drawings. Changing the paper roll from one type of paper to the other isn't very difficult (usually takes about 1 minute max). Every now and then, someone will print something to it like a photograph and we are impressed with the quality of the image. However we do this on regular coated bond paper. Have never tried glossy. If you are likely to print large files (we have had MapInfo maps of 40 megs), I would recommend adding extra memory to it. Other than that, we're happy with it. 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