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What kind of plotters?

What kind of plotters?

What kind of plotters?

(OP)
I was wondering what kind of plotters were being used and what plotters people have had the best luck with?

RE: What kind of plotters?

I only use B-size (Tabloid or 11"x17") prints and use a Toshiba E280 laser photocopier/printer ... fast and excellent quality.

Before that I used an HP Deskjet 1000C ... qood quality but slow.

cheers

RE: What kind of plotters?

We use several models. But, we are doing more electronic and plotting less. I will do 11x17 on the laser as needed.

Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 02-10-07)

RE: What kind of plotters?

HP 450C, works well.

RE: What kind of plotters?

I would have to agree with CBLthe Toshiba E280 works like a dream.

HIPPIEGUY
Mechanical Designer/Drafter
Tucson AZ.
SW 2007 SP2.2

RE: What kind of plotters?

(OP)
The reason I was asking is because we have a HP 650c. It plots just fine out of autocad with the default settings but I cann't seem to get the thing to plot out of Solidworks. It crops my prints. Please refere to my other post thread1103-178712.

RE: What kind of plotters?

We use HP Designjet 800 for most SolidWorks stuff, but have a HP Designjet 500 mainly for our leagacy 2-D drafting system stuff.  It works with SolidWorks.  The older 2-D system has problems with the 800.  We are on SW07 SP2.2.

RE: What kind of plotters?

We have a Xerox XES8850 36" plotter.  It seems to work nicely with SolidWorks.  It spits out an E-size in just a few seconds.  My only complaint is that its lineweights are a bit lighter than our laser printer.  I have to change the print lineweights when switching back and forth between plotter and printer.  

RE: What kind of plotters?

We use an HP DesignJet 430 for "C" & "D" size plots if needed.  Plots fast on draft mode.  The one thing that really blows about this model is that angled lines have a terrible resolution even on the high quality mode.  Horizontal and Vert. lines look great, but angled lines....blow like the wind.

I would NOT recommend this model to anyone.

RE: What kind of plotters?

We use HP Designjet 500c for all our large media - works just fine, a bit slow but functional, very few problems

SW 2007 SP 2.2
Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 670
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
Windows XP PRO SP 2

RE: What kind of plotters?

Draftsman, you may need to add more memory to your plotter.

RE: What kind of plotters?

(OP)
The memory is maxed out at 64.

RE: What kind of plotters?

Have you had this problem before? If not then you may have a bad memory chip. Also , try under properties for the plotter to use computer to print not the plotters memory. Also be carefull using rendered views and printing this takes alot of memory for HP's.

RE: What kind of plotters?

We use a HP1050 and HP755C Plotters.  I like the HP1050 Plotter myself.

Cheers,

Ralph Wright, CSWP
SolidWorks 2005, SP5.0
Intel Pentium D, 3.2Ghz
2.0Gb RAM
nVidia Quadro Fx 1300 Card
Microsoft Windows XP Pro

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