Printing to a HP Design Jet from a Mac

Discussion in 'AutoCAD' started by Tim Owen, Apr 15, 2004.

  1. Tim Owen

    Tim Owen Guest

    Hello,

    We have a HP DesignJET500 at work, and would like to print from Macs. HP
    says that the printer does not support macs however there may be conversion
    software (Rips) available. It has something to do with converting from Post
    Script (Mac??) to PCL (HP printers).

    Has anyone come across this problem? If so did you manage to find a
    solution?

    Thank you

    Tim
     
    Tim Owen, Apr 15, 2004
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  2. Tim Owen

    Johannes Dressel Guest

    Does this HP DJ dispose of possibility of Network?
    If not, it might be difficult.
    But you can look for a HP JetDirect-Card, then yor Mac will talk with
    your Plotter.

    Johannes
     
    Johannes Dressel, Apr 15, 2004
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  3. Tim Owen

    Norbert Grund Guest

    the HP DJ500 is the cheapie version of HPs DJ series and thus doesn't
    support the HP-GL/2 plotter language by default and which is needed
    (instead of dumb PCL) for using third party rips/drivers which can
    output to this industry standard only.

    for example MacPlot Classic (for OS9):
    http://www.microspot.co.uk/products/classic/macPlot.htm
    or X-RIP (for OS X):
    http://www.microspot.co.uk/products/techInfo/xrip.htm
    not for free, of course (it's a Mac ;-)
    N.
     
    Norbert Grund, Apr 16, 2004
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