CAD Plotters

[j_follett_88]

for brand wise OCE all the way I have used Cannons, HP etc. Get the laser style ones with toner not ink just in general its a lot faster especially if you aren't using colours. OCE seems to have less jams etc. I forget what series my office used but we could plot full A0 or E which ever like I'll say maybe a minute. with standard A1 I could send a batch of 15 or so and by the time i walked up one floor and got the room it be done the next print job after mine.

[Ian Philpott]

Had an Oce Colourwave 600 on trial for a while. Absolutely brilliant laser machine. Complex test print I used, took 5-6 mins on our hp4000 was done in 65 secs on the Colourwave.

Procurement problems meant we are back on the hp4000 for now

[DSTUTLER]

Quick question for everyone, about three years ago i had been working with a Oce Colorwave 600, and i went to work for a new company and talked them into buying an Oce Colorwave 650. I was wondering if you can use the Colorwave 600 toner pearls in the Colorwave 650? they look to be the same and some websites are selling colorwave 600/650 toner pearls but if i call the tech guy that set our printer up he says, "well the only thing i know is Oce says its a different formula".....??? i was just wondering if anyone has tried to use the 600 pearls in the 650???

thanks

[donbraun]

Years ago I used a 650C and it served me well. I've been out of the CAD world for about ten years but am slowly being forced into it. I can acquire an old 650C at little or no cost. Since it's familiar to me and would serve my purposes, subject to connectivity, I'd get it. As I recall, the 650C worked with either a serial or a parallel printer port (36 pin?). Can I get to it with a USB cable and some kind of converter?

[cadtag]

best bet for connectivity would be a network print server with a parallel port connection - unless there's an HP JetDirect optin for that old a machine. While I was a fan of the 650 a couple of decades ago, that was a couple of decades ago. seriously - if you need to do any printing for a final deliverable, a 24" sheet/roll printer is not all _that_ much. (says the guy with a 450 roll plotter setting in the corner....

[PijPiwo]

Years ago I used a 650C and it served me well. I've been out of the CAD world for about ten years but am slowly being forced into it. I can acquire an old 650C at little or no cost. Since it's familiar to me and would serve my purposes, subject to connectivity, I'd get it. As I recall, the 650C worked with either a serial or a parallel printer port (36 pin?). Can I get to it with a USB cable and some kind of converter?

I’m successfully using hp 430 with this cable http://www.dynexproducts.com/product...s/DX-UBPC.html
The only problem is that the drivers for Win7/8 are not available anymore, same with 650. I’m using a driver for 500 instead, since this is the only (I think) old generation plotter still supported and running on the same language http://h20180.www2.hp.com/apps/Nav?h...&lang=en&cc=us
I remember I had some minor difficulties setting it up, but if you know what you’re doing, it should be a piece of cake.