Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: HP 7475 plotter

Alan,
I guess I made a mistake in the model number. Right now, I have an
Encad Novajet inkjet plotter, that I use in my work.

Marv Frankel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Marconett KM6VV" <KM6VV@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 10:49 AM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: HP 7475 plotter


> Hi Marv,
>
> Couldn't have been that much! I bought one in '84. Maybe $1400 LIST,
> don't recall. I got in under an HP employee discount. I still have
> mine. "PRINT" under most windows programs often offers a variety of
> printers, including HGPL, and you can usually select save as file.
> Print to this file, then "copy" file to comm port.
>
> I can watch the plotter for hours! I had thought of getting another one
> (surplus), and using the parts.
>
> Alan KM6VV
>
>
> Marv Frankel wrote:
> >
> > Jan,
> > A number of years ago I used that model plotter at my office, and
if I
> > remember correctly, it cost about $4,000 to $4,500. It was just great,
until
> > the inkjet plotters took over. Where a pen plotter took 45 minutes to do
a
> > large plot, the inkjet took about 5 minutes, and then along came the
> > electrostatics, etc. etc. etc...........
> >
> > Marv Frankel
> > Los Angeles
>
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