i use Solidworks and am wondering whats a great printer to buy for use

[sixftsix]

to use for a small business. I have a 3 in 1 hp but it is a hassle and it doesnt work to great. i'd like to spend around $300. But is this realistic. Any recommendations would be great.

thank you

 

[JMirisola]

What do you want to be able to print? 8x11? Pictures? Plots?
Really need a bit more info.
There are a lot of good printers out there. I'd suggest doing a comparative search online, comparing price and capabilities.

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP, Certified DriveWorks AE
CAD Administrator, Ultimate Survival Technologies
My Blog

 

[sixftsix]

definately fax , pics, print designs, also documention or drawings. i know they are only 8.5 by 11 but its a start for the price.

 

[itsmoked]

You should look at B-size printers. Not many around but A-size is really not very useful for a lot of designs.

Keith Cress
kcress -

http://www.flaminsystems.com

 

[ctopher]

Also:
Océ TDS400

http://www.solidworks.com/sw/products/details.htm?productid=402

Chris
SolidWorks 08, CATIA V5
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
ctopher's blog
SolidWorks Legion

 

[sixftsix]

Thank you gentleman

 

[smcadman]

HP has some Deskjets and Officejets that print ANSI B 11" x 17" sheets. They may not be all-in-one printers, but sometimes that bigger sheet makes things a lot easier to read (obviously it depends on what your product is).

Flores

 

[Waidesworld]

We have a HP DesignJet 130 for about two years now, handles A B and C paper and are very happy with it.

drawn to design, designed to draw

 

[itsmoked]

I have the HP K850.

I caution you that if you don't use most HPs at least weekly you will have problems with all of them. Mine is frustrating me because I only need it about once every 6 months and as I go to use it the cartridges are dead, or the print heads are dead, or both. So single prints are costing me close to $100. I can't tell you how annoying that is.. Recently I started taking my drawings to Kinko's on a USB stick drive.

Seventeen cents <<<< $100. BW
Color are substantially more but still << $100

If you would use it more than once a week I suspect you'd have no issue and get full life out of the heads/cartridges.

I'm not sure if other brands have the same problem or not.

My DesignJet was so annoying with the exact same issue that I just recycled it.

Keith Cress
kcress -

http://www.flaminsystems.com

 

[GRF]

I believe most ink jets have a fine print somewhere that states ink is only good for 6months after opening. That being said I have a HP officejet7300 that I have had at home for ~4.5yrs and I have only bought 3 black ink cartridges and 3 color ink cartridges for it in that time. I have had problems with the pages not quite printing out correctly at times and replacing the ink did solve those.

1 advantage that HP has over cannon or epson is that when you replace the ink cartridge you also replace the print head so you tend to have less issue with print heads clogging up. If you do the situation is much easier to fix by replacing the print cartridge vs taking a big chunk of the printer appart.

 

[itsmoked]

Not on the K850. On it and several other new models they have separated the heads from the ink. That's why it costs me so much to rejuvenate this thing. 4 cartridges + 4 heads = $$$$$

Keith Cress
kcress -

http://www.flaminsystems.com

 

[sixftsix]

thank you all for your thoughts