I've not used any recent models, but the 1055CM and the 800PS are solid. I would buy another DesignJet if it were me.
-- Mike Gill -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 8:32 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Large format printers (plotters) 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 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
