Hey all,
Anyone have any recent experience with large-format printers ("plotters")?
It looks like our venerable DesignJet 750 may finally have given up
for good. [removes hat; "Taps" plays]
We're printing engineering drawings, mainly 2D line drawings.
Usually fairly simple stuff. Mainly black-and-white only. Maybe
simple color for line differentiation. The only hard part is that we
do large drawings, so we need something that can handle 36-inch wide
roll media, and can render drawings 10+ feet in length. It seems like
most products on the market in that size are targeted at high-quality
production (for posters, signs, etc.), and that's more than we need --
and thus more than we want to pay for.
Our software environment is all MS Win, currently mostly XP, moving
to Vista/7 over the next year or two. No funky software requirements,
so long as it can print from Windows. That said, it'd be nice if it
could do something standardish, like HP-GL/2.
HP's current replacement for the DJ750 would be the DesignJet 510
CH337A ($2900 list). Anyone have recent experience with HP plotters,
either the product itself, or the customer service? I know their
printers aren't what they used to be, but their plotters come from a
different group.
The Canon imagePROGRAF iPF710 seems comparable to the DJ 510, and
street price looks a bit cheaper; anyone have experience with that?
Suggestions, ideas, horror stories, etc., welcomed.
-- Ben
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