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Our interest in architectural plotters comes from growing up in a family of architects, including three Hellmuth's who work at HOK (Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, Architects). There is an HP 500ps in the adjacent Department of Architecture.Īt BGSU we were in the same building as the architects, so have acquired plenty of experience in CAD plotters. The FLAAR facility at the university was next door to the department of architecture so we have two CAD-GIS printers, the HP 1055CM and the newer HP 800ps. I would surmise that Encad, Canon and Oce CAD printers also have those drivers, but of course HP is the longtime plotter manufacturer since the early days of pen plotters. So with HP you get the CAD drivers included in pertinent models. HP CAD printers are not flawless, but HP knows CAD and AEC inside out. Epson printers also have other issues and have not been successful in the CAD or AEC markets. I guess you could use an Epson to do technical line work but they are slow and are known for inexpensive ink and costly media. If you need to have top quality photographs associated with your drawings, then certain printers will be better than other brands. When you need to do AEC engineering drawings one day yet posters, signs, or banners another day, than it helps to know which brand of printer can produce better quality. Encad did not survive being taken over and mismanaged by Kodak. Your options for architectural and engineering drawings, computer generated renderings (AEC) GIS, maps, aerial photography, and comparable graphic designs are still a Canon, or a Hewlett-Packard DesignJet. Hewlett-Packard 500 plotters and HP Designjet 500ps for CAD, GIS, AEC, reviews, evaluations, problems.

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