We use a two plotter system... Oce for the black and whites, and Canon IPF750 for the colour prints. Like you suggested in the last part of your email, how often do you print colour prints... so we went with a slightly used plotter from the same people that supply/service the Oce machine... they even gave us a 2 year warranty on replacement parts and labour...
Good luck! Steven MacKinnon Fire Protection Division Hartcorn Plumbing and Heating, Inc. 850 South Second Street Ronkonkoma, NY 11779 Office 631-580-2300 Fax - 631-580-1090 -----Original Message----- From: Sprinklerforum [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Young Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 1:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Wide format plotters I've been asked to get a plan in place for when we have to replace our current plotter. We have an Oce TDS 600 which is hard to get electrical parts for, and the controller is causing our IT department all kinds of headaches. The TDS 600 is really a beast of a printer and hasn't been down more than half a day in over five years, so we're very happy with the Oce Brand. My issue is going to Color. Right now I'm looking at the Colorwave 500, which is slightly slower, but isn't inkjet based (gel toner pearls, instant dry, no special paper, etc.) Have others moved into color for their field prints? Obviously bid drawings are rarely in color, so I'm thinking only about 5-10% of the printing we do is going to be in color, and we average about 16,000 sqft per month. Any other manufacturers I should consider that can match the long-term reliability of Oce? So consumer reports doesn't test plotters, so reviews or other pro/con information is scant for me at this point, so I thought I would throw this out to the sprinkler forum people since we probably all have to print our stuff out at some point. Any input or thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Benjamin Young _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
