Designjet 5500, postscript needed?

Discussion in 'AutoCAD' started by Fatfreek, Aug 18, 2004.

  1. Fatfreek

    Fatfreek Guest

    I am consider a HP Designjet 5500 printer which takes up to a 60" roll. I
    intend to do plots that exceed what I understand to be Adobe PDF length
    limits (129"?).

    I will be plotting from AutoCAD 2005 some large banners that are very heavy
    in text, mostly Arial font. Some drawings are up to 60 mbytes in size. I'
    ve seen samples from this plotter and can easily read such text at some
    0.04" text height (not that I need this small text but I will be frequently
    plotting to 0.06").

    I can buy, for close to a $4000 extra, the Postscript capability. But why
    should I even consider it?

    I don't want to muddy the waters with this post but do want to bring up the
    thermal vs. piezo issue. HP uses thermal and competitors, piezo. Is piezo
    something I should consider in something other than HP?

    Any tips?

    Len Miller
     
    Fatfreek, Aug 18, 2004
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