Plotters

[drawoh]

I think this is the best place to ask about drafting tools.

We have a Hewlett Packard DesignJet 450C full sized colour printer. This is no longer supported by Hewlett Packard on Windows[ ]7 64[ ]bit. We may have to buy a new plotter to replace our otherwise perfectly functional plotter.

Does anybody have experience with other plotter manufacturers, and their support of old machines on new, up to date operating systems?

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JHG

 

[MintJulep]

While there may not be a driver specifically for that model, the Win 7 drivers for some similar newer HP plotter may work.

Alternately, there must be a way to connect it as a local printer to an old XP machine and share it - although your IT group might balk.

Is there a driver for Linux?

 

[drawoh]

MintJulep,

I looked up Linux support. It might be supported by GhostScript, which is how Linux prints. This allows me to take it home, assuming the company will let me, and assuming I can find somewhere to put it. Not likely.

A print server might work, if I can talk someone into it.

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JHG

 

[berkshire]

There was a company in Australia that specialized in drivers for obsolete plotters. I used them to get an updated driver for my Draft Pro EXL when I went from XP to win 7. Unfortunately I got rid of their details when I finally junked the draft pro and bought an Office Jet wide format printer/plotter. However it gives you a point to start looking.
B.E.

You are judged not by what you know, but by what you can do.

 

[dgallup]

We had to do the same thing several years ago. Took it as an opportunity to get a plotter that is also a copier/scanner so we could finally scan in all out old Mylar & sepia drawings and get rid of the vertical files.

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