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I NEED A HP PLOTER PRINTER
i need a Ploter Printer with new dimensions and print out. color hp
ploter, the latest brand from hp |
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I NEED A HP PLOTER PRINTER
"Monica" wrote in message
... 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. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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On 16-Jun-2009, "Don Phillipson" wrote: 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. |
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Ato_Zee wrote:
On 16-Jun-2009, "Don Phillipson" wrote: 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. Pen plotters went the way of the Dodo 15-20 years ago. The inkjets that replaced them are still called plotters in engineering circles. |
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On 16-Jun-2009, Michael Johnson wrote: 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. |
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I NEED A HP PLOTER PRINTER
Ato_Zee wrote:
On 16-Jun-2009, Michael Johnson wrote: 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. 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. |
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I NEED A HP PLOTER PRINTER
Michael Johnson wrote:
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. 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. 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 -- Tony 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/ |
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I NEED A HP PLOTER PRINTER
Ato_Zee wrote:
On 16-Jun-2009, "Don Phillipson" wrote: 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. 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" |
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I NEED A HP PLOTER PRINTER
On 2009-06-17, Michael Johnson wrote:
Ato_Zee wrote: On 16-Jun-2009, Michael Johnson wrote: 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. 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. 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. -- Andrew Smallshaw |
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Andrew Smallshaw wrote:
On 2009-06-17, Michael Johnson wrote: Ato_Zee wrote: On 16-Jun-2009, Michael Johnson wrote: 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. 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. 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. 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. |
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