I am in the final stages of starting up my own solo practice and I need a plotter. I have been looking at the HP T520 as well as the the HP T120 any thoughts on these as well as other suggestions.
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I went with the t520 recently as an upgrade from my previous hp plotter. The wireless printing is nice. It's fairly quick and quite. I am more than satisfied with it, for the $ it was a good option for me.
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T520 for me as well. Pretty satisfied considering price, and being a small shop it is more than sufficient for my needs.
I replaced my DJ800 with the T520 as well. Works great for the small amount I plot. The only problem I'm having is plotting tabloid through CAD. I must have something set up incorrectly.
John Putnam, post: 427111, member: 1188 wrote: I replaced my DJ800 with the T520 as well. Works great for the small amount I plot. The only problem I'm having is plotting tabloid through CAD. I must have something set up incorrectly.
I have the same issues, my workaround is printing to PDF first and then to plotter, which I'm guessing you have to do as well.
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Hollandbriscoe, post: 427063, member: 9155 wrote: I am in the final stages of starting up my own solo practice and I need a plotter. I have been looking at the HP T520 as well as the the HP T120 any thoughts on these as well as other suggestions.
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I absolutely loathe my HP T120; loathe may not even be a strong enough word for my feelings toward this POS.
My favorite of its MANY peccadilloes is -
say I want to make 6 paper copies and a mylar of a C size drawing. The paper copies come from the roll feed, while the mylar is individually sheet fed. Both the roll and the single sheet are fed from the top of the printer. Until I learned to provide a much larger margin than that indicated by the driver, Invariably the mylar would print with part of the border missing, while the paper copies were fine.
Another: my $99 Brother will print right to the edges of ledger size paper, while the T120 requires margins, and different margins, no less, on the ends of the paper.
A very poor replacement for the DJ500........
I have a DesignJet T520, and really like it. It is the 24" wide version, and was around $1,800 or so. I had it about 1 year before I merged my solo firm with my current firm. I have the 3 year lease (interest free), and it will be paid off in November. I kept it because I use it for check plots and getting stuff ready for the crews, and I don't have to stay late at the office. It was also very useful as I wrapped up those loose ends for a year or so after I moved over to the new firm. It took about a year for some of my ongoing projects to wrap up.
I have not had any problems with it, is easy on ink, and loading and unloading the roll is simple. The only thing I do have problems with is printing multiple copies of a plat. I am thinking it is a driver issue, I just go to the control panel on the plotter, and reprint last job.
Anybody using the Canon Imageprograph 24" Plotter?
We've had the HP T120 for a couple of months now only gone thru one roll of paper but no complaints so far. We picked it because we have a small office and to put the plotter on the receptionitst desk
We have a cannon ipf 755 and couldn't be happier it's going on 5 years now
I bought an HP designjet 500 back in November of 2001. It is still going strong. Have had to change the belt a couple times. If HP is still putting out the same quality. I'd go with HP.
I'd also recommend getting a plotter that you can buy a continuous ink system for. It's a lot cheaper to buy bulk ink. All you have to replace are the print heads periodically.
Plotters are an expensive time waster, in my opinion. Find a local commercial print shop that can produce reliable results and just outsource it. Printing various sizes, trimming edges, binding.. this all takes time. Meanwhile printer head cartridges dry out, misprints waste time and paper, it's a hassle that I prefer not to deal with.
When I need a plot I make the PDF pretty and then email it.. and hour later I pick it up and pay next to nothing for it to be perfect. No overhead and time wasted.
geopro_consultants, post: 427563, member: 9959 wrote: Plotters are an expensive time waster, in my opinion. Find a local commercial print shop that can produce reliable results and just outsource it. Printing various sizes, trimming edges, binding.. this all takes time. Meanwhile printer head cartridges dry out, misprints waste time and paper, it's a hassle that I prefer not to deal with.
When I need a plot I make the PDF pretty and then email it.. and hour later I pick it up and pay next to nothing for it to be perfect. No overhead and time wasted.
If you have a print shop anywhere nearby, I think this is a good solution, too. Any mistake you'll pick up on a full-size print you should also pick up on tabloid that you review beforehand. And it also takes the time suck factor way down.
