Hello Don,
We've been using a HP 800 (non PS) with MI8.0 for a while
now. It took a little while to find the appropriate settings before we got
exactly what we wanted but we're quite satisfied. The trickiest
parts are scaling patterns and transparencies (of course !!). The only
thing we've never been able to do is to get proper pattern scaling of both the
old patterns (the one already there in Mapinfo 5, 5.5, 6,etc...) and the new
patterns (from Mapinfo 7.5 onwards if I remember well) when these two patterns
are used together on the same map, and transparent...except....when they
are both in Black and White (yes I know, don't ask....can't
explain).
Apart from that, we're quite happy with it, printing both
aerial photo and vector layer on top, either directly on the printer or using
pdf file (need to find a good pdf writer though)
Not much maintenance, except that we lost the 6Go HDD last
monday (after two years). And we haven't found a way to replace it yet because
the hdd format seems to be non standard (it's not fat, fat32, ntfs, etc....)
We've spend some hours trying to make a image of another working HP800 HDD but
none of our software could handle that disk (even bite to bite copy didn't
work). To top it all, HP resellers can't be bothered to replace the hdd :
they replace everything : the hdd, the "formatter" as they call it (an
electronic card) and the RAM....not cheap but not much
choice.
Sorry.....just needed to get this off my chest
!!
I suggest you look in the archive for some other advices :
there's been discussion about HP800 lately (16th of june this year "AO plotter
and RIP questions" and 24th of septembre "Printing
transparencies")
I remember saying at the time that one of my customer had
trouble with an EPSON9600. Well, after many (many many) tries and different
settings, etc..., we got some result (eventually) and had to come to the
conclusion that both printers (HP and Epson) are experiencing the same
difficulties. There's not that many differencies (I mean when used with
Mapinfo).
Good luck
David HILPIPRE
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Hi
All,
We're
currently using an HP 1050C and it has been giving us some problems
lately. I think it's driver related and we'll solve it
eventually, however, I decided to look at some options for when
it decides to "no longer co-operate".
I was
looking at the HP website at their Designjet 800 series. Has anyone used
it with MapInfo? Any opinions or advice?
Thanks in
advance for any input,
_________________________
Don
Mitchell
GIS
Technician (IMS)
City of
St.Thomas
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