#HPGL PLOTTING
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Ang:
OK. I have both the HP DesignJet and the Enter NovaJets. In fact – I have
two NovaJets – one of which was sold to one of our clients sight unseen.
Both the plotters work exceptionally well. The HP is heavily built, and
has typical HP ruggedness and thoroughness of design. It works well –
spitting out E size plots every 6 minutes or so.
The NovaJet has the advantage of color. It is not so fast when running
color, because it only has one print head for each color. But when you put
in 4 black heads, it is very fast. No, I haven't timed it yet. No chance
for it yet. But it'll haul butt. The NovaJet is built with a simpler paper
handling mechanism that may not be so accurate (for things such as mapping
this may be important), but it does work very well. Actually, I've had to
perform an engineering change order in the field on both NovaJet plotters
(serial numbers 10 and 11), as there was a small clearance problem on the
head assembly. No big deal – I did give the design engineer hell about it
though.
Fact is, either plotter is mighty nice. And a good justification to retire
the pen plotter.
Evan
Evan-
I'm curious about the NovaJet. With 4 pens, it can aparently do 256 colors,
right? How about 256, or 64, or even 16 shades of grey? Could you put
several different shades of grey-black ink in, and work it that way? (Pardon
the novice questions about colour mixing <g>)
Peter:
It can do grey. I don't know how many levels though.
Evan
Evan,
Maybe the "paper handling mech" doesn't need to be as "rugged" as a pen
plotter since its a "one time thru – w/o a reverse gear". Sounds pretty
exciting! Why would someone buy the HP when the color is the same price?
(except for that'ol product loyalty thing).
Thanks for the input…
Ang