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Hardware Forum / Peripherals / Printers / June 2009I NEED A HP PLOTER PRINTER
i need a Ploter Printer with new dimensions and print out. color hp ploter, the latest brand from hp > i need a Ploter Printer with new dimensions and print out. color hp > ploter, the latest brand from hp No one can advise you unless you say where you live or where you intend to buy.  SignatureDon Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) > > i need a Ploter Printer with new dimensions and print out. color hp > > ploter, the latest brand from hp A plotter uses pens driven by stepper motors. A plotter is characterised by its positional accuracy. Plotters are used for engineering drawing and scientific applications. A plotter is less than ideal for pages of text, letters, etc. A printer is general purpose, it can produce colour images, pages of text, bar charts, and the like, it is more versatile than a plotter. Which are you looking for? You don't get combo units, with both pens and laser/inkjet printing. >>> i need a Ploter Printer with new dimensions and print out. color hp >>> ploter, the latest brand from hp [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > You don't get combo units, with both pens and laser/inkjet > printing. Pen plotters went the way of the Dodo 15-20 years ago. The inkjets that replaced them are still called plotters in engineering circles. > Pen plotters went the way of the Dodo 15-20 years ago. The inkjets that > replaced them are still called plotters in engineering circles. Your Dodo is not extinct, large format pen plotters are still available, Ioline's 600Ae comes to mind, though they are getting fewer in number since the days of the large Calcomps, and the HP desktop A4 pen plotters. >> Pen plotters went the way of the Dodo 15-20 years ago. The inkjets that >> replaced them are still called plotters in engineering circles. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > since the days of the large Calcomps, and the HP desktop A4 pen > plotters. I can't think of any reason to buy a pen plotter over an inkjet. The pens wear out, run dry, plots take forever etc. HP hasn't made a pen plotter since 1995 and there is good reasons why this is so. >>> Pen plotters went the way of the Dodo 15-20 years ago. The inkjets that >>> replaced them are still called plotters in engineering circles. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >pens wear out, run dry, plots take forever etc. HP hasn't made a pen >plotter since 1995 and there is good reasons why this is so. Agreed. I recall seeing one of those letter sized HP plotters in about 1985. Slower than molasses in January. The 48" inkjet "plotter", which used ink cartridges, at a clients about 5 or 6 years ago was nice and fast. Tony SignatureTony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/ >>> Pen plotters went the way of the Dodo 15-20 years ago. The inkjets that >>> replaced them are still called plotters in engineering circles. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > pens wear out, run dry, plots take forever etc. HP hasn't made a pen > plotter since 1995 and there is good reasons why this is so. I can think of a few. The first is a cheat: I have a script lying about somewhere that takes ASCII and produces a reasonable simulacrum of my handwriting. At least, my idealised, cursive handwriting - in everyday life I only ever print for legibility so my my cursive handwriting is all over the place. It's smart enough to introduce a small amount of variability (mainly to pen speed) so the results are not _too_ consistent but still far neater than I could manage by hand. Goes down very well with the girlies when used for love letters. ;-) More usefully, I've found that with a little experimentation and adjustment I have got a flatbed plotter to work very well drawing circuit board layouts onto bare sheets of copper clad PCB board. The ink forms the etch resist and it can go straight into the etching tank. The traditonal method involves printing onto OHP transparencies, exposing photosensitive boards under UV and finally developing with sodium hydroxide to get to the same point. That's quite a time consuming process when you only want one board. Sure its a specialist application but plotters always were specialist devices. SignatureAndrew Smallshaw andrews@sdf.lonestar.org >>>> Pen plotters went the way of the Dodo 15-20 years ago. The inkjets that >>>> replaced them are still called plotters in engineering circles. [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > its a specialist application but plotters always were specialist > devices. I was referring to printing onto paper, vellum, mylar etc. I would think that complex plots would be more time consuming with a pen plotter regardless of the media/purpose. I know that some construction plan sheets would take 2-3 hours to plot with an HP pen plotter where the same sheets would take a few minutes with an inkjet plotter. >>> i need a Ploter Printer with new dimensions and print out. color hp >>> ploter, the latest brand from hp [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > You don't get combo units, with both pens and laser/inkjet > printing. However, many PCL printers understand HPGL (the language of pen plotters) - so if you're looking to print an HPGL file a suitable laserjet printer might be all you need. Alternatively, there are HPGL->PostScript converters available. Try google with "printing hpgl". "H" >i need a Ploter Printer with new dimensions and print out. color hp >ploter, the latest brand from hp I'll sell you one of mine. Make me an offer. HP Colorpro A4, 8 pen (short body). 45x35x12cm. Advance Bryans (Ioline LP4000 not HPGL) A0 roll feed, 20 pen (5 pen holders). 125x23x23cm, stand with castors 105cm high. Collect only in Midlands UK. Both pinch feed. Last used when AutoCAD 12 was current so pens will be dead. There's a Xerox 4020 kicking around too. SignaturePeter Hill Spamtrap reply domain as per NNTP-Posting-Host in header Can of worms - what every fisherman wants. Can of worms - what every PC owner gets! |
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