Which plotter would you recommend and why?
Which plotter would you recommend and why?
(OP)
Our 13 year old plotter allegedly won't work with our Windows 7/Autocad 2012 upgrade. I can now get a new plotter. My usage is minimal, probably 2 to 4 times per month on average. I was plotting a color drawing once every other week to keep the pens fresh.
Any help is appreciated and thanks in advance.
Tom
Any help is appreciated and thanks in advance.
Tom





RE: Which plotter would you recommend and why?
Otherwise, HP has some very nice 24x36 (D-size) printers - but they are in the $6000-$7000 range!!
We have switched most of our drawings (color) to "B" size (11''x17''). You can buy those from $500 -$1500 - depending on speed and options!!
We love it and so do our field personnel. Cut it in half and fax it. Fold it up and it fits in your back pocket!!
RE: Which plotter would you recommend and why?
RE: Which plotter would you recommend and why?
RE: Which plotter would you recommend and why?
For bigger stuff I use a 17-inch Canon Image Prograf 5100. Again, pretty expensive but I defined a "half-D" and "half-E" paper size so that I can use Acrobat and tile D and E size pages onto two panes, connect them with glue stick, and can hardly see the seam. I just didn't have floor space for a D- or E-size plotter and this has been a great compromise. Print quality on photos is better than studio quality and I do a lot of that (photographs for framing and using the roll paper for long panorama scenes is amazing), if you don't print photos then this printer may not be worth the money to you.
David
RE: Which plotter would you recommend and why?
B+W Engineering and Design
Los Angeles Civil Engineer and Structural Engineer
http://bwengr.com
RE: Which plotter would you recommend and why?
David
RE: Which plotter would you recommend and why?
They just keep going out of business because of Kinkos and relatively inexpensive printers.
RE: Which plotter would you recommend and why?
It prints oversize A0 and is very easy to load anything down to A5 (sorry I am not familiar with American sizes) good print quality, unless you want high quality photos and very cheap to run and quick, well worth a look, if you can find one.
RE: Which plotter would you recommend and why?
B.E.
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