Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!info-vax From: info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: Re: Plotters with DI-3000 Message-ID: <4056@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 13:26:39 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.4056 Posted: Mon Jan 7 13:26:39 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 03:18:38 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 27 From: Enzien.WBST@XEROX.ARPA John, We have been using DI-3000 with several hardcopy devices for three or four years. If you are looking for a pen plotter - you CANNOT beat Hewlett Packard - we've had two older models running under DI-3000 very successfully. Now they've come out with faster and cheaper models: HP 7550 - 8 pens w/ automatic sheet feed - A or B size $4000 HP 7470 - 2 pens $1095 HP 7475 - 6 pens $1895 If you have a "production" environment you'll need the 7550 - we had to write some software to facilitate the automatic sheet feed (labeling plots too) in the DI-3000 driver - maybe PVI has that available now. If you need better resolution or speed - you might look at the new Tektronix 4692 - they call it a Color Graphics Copier - it's ink jet technology - don't know if PVI supports this yet but I imagine they will eventually. Colleen Enzien Xerox Corporation Webster Research Center