What kind of plotters?

[draftsman101]

I was wondering what kind of plotters were being used and what plotters people have had the best luck with?

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

I only use B-size (Tabloid or 11"x17") prints and use a Toshiba E280 laser photocopier/printer ... fast and excellent quality.

Before that I used an HP Deskjet 1000C ... qood quality but slow.

 

[ctopher]

We use several models. But, we are doing more electronic and plotting less. I will do 11x17 on the laser as needed.

Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 02-10-07)

 

[Rocko]

HP 450C, works well.

 

[hippieguy]

I would have to agree with CBLthe Toshiba E280 works like a dream.

HIPPIEGUY
Mechanical Designer/Drafter
Tucson AZ.
SW 2007 SP2.2

 

[draftsman101]

The reason I was asking is because we have a HP 650c. It plots just fine out of autocad with the default settings but I cann't seem to get the thing to plot out of Solidworks. It crops my prints. Please refere to my other post thread1103-178712.

 

[crjones]

We use HP Designjet 800 for most SolidWorks stuff, but have a HP Designjet 500 mainly for our leagacy 2-D drafting system stuff. It works with SolidWorks. The older 2-D system has problems with the 800. We are on SW07 SP2.2.

 

[handleman]

We have a Xerox XES8850 36" plotter. It seems to work nicely with SolidWorks. It spits out an E-size in just a few seconds. My only complaint is that its lineweights are a bit lighter than our laser printer. I have to change the print lineweights when switching back and forth between plotter and printer.

 

[BodyBagger]

We use an HP DesignJet 430 for "C" & "D" size plots if needed. Plots fast on draft mode. The one thing that really blows about this model is that angled lines have a terrible resolution even on the high quality mode. Horizontal and Vert. lines look great, but angled lines....blow like the wind.

I would NOT recommend this model to anyone.

 

[pdelnet]

We use HP Designjet 500c for all our large media - works just fine, a bit slow but functional, very few problems

SW 2007 SP 2.2
Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation 670
2048 Megabytes Installed Memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
Windows XP PRO SP 2

 

[Rocko]

Draftsman, you may need to add more memory to your plotter.

 

[draftsman101]

The memory is maxed out at 64.

 

[Rocko]

Have you had this problem before? If not then you may have a bad memory chip. Also , try under properties for the plotter to use computer to print not the plotters memory. Also be carefull using rendered views and printing this takes alot of memory for HP's.

 

[cadman1997]

We use a HP1050 and HP755C Plotters. I like the HP1050 Plotter myself.

Cheers,

Ralph Wright, CSWP
SolidWorks 2005, SP5.0
Intel Pentium D, 3.2Ghz
2.0Gb RAM
nVidia Quadro Fx 1300 Card
Microsoft Windows XP Pro

 

[fcsuper]

Don't get HP! Don't!

Matt
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA

http://sw.fcsuper.com/index.php