Re: OT - Wide Format Printers for Schematics

From: Rich Grise (rich_at_example.net)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:47:29 GMT

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:41:59 -0700, Tim Wescott wrote:

> Nicholas O. Lindan wrote:
>
>> "Tim Wescott" <tim@wescottnospamdesign.com> wrote
>>
>>
>>>Any thoughts on economical ways to print pages wider than 8-1/2 inch?
>>
>>
>> If you are doing this for a living then buy a plotter.
>>
>> If you only have to do a few sheets then print them A size and
>> take them to Kinkos, they will turn them into C's for not
>> a whole lot of $$.
>>
> When I have a contract that demands it I do it often enough not to want
> to make the 10-mile run to the nearest photocopier. Then I'll have long
> stretches where I'm writing software or science fiction -- no, I mean
> preliminary functional specifications.
>
> So who makes a good economical plotter? Seems like HP is out of that
> business.

Check e-bay daily. I missed an awesome opportunity by about 10 minutes -
some guy was _giving_ away a 36" Calcomp plotter, about 40 miles from me.
But by the time I got it cleared with the PHB, the guy had taken it off
sale.

He called a few weeks later, but by then the PHB had paid about $1200.00
for a used HP Design-jet, then another $600.00 getting it fixed. )-:

Good Luck!
Rich