HP Designjet 1055CM Plus(6075B) - Does anybody use this plotter?

[zoomharis]

Hi,
Is there anybody using this above plotter? If so, what is your openion about its permormance? Have you found any advantages / disadvantages? Our company looks forward to buy one. The product brochure is attached herewith for checking plotter features.

Thanks a lot for your feedback.

[kimlance]

I don't know if this will help but we've been using the HP Designjet 1050C Plus for about 5 years now and never had any problems with it. Also it is a real workhorse and holds alot of ink and paper. From what I've read the 1055cm Plus is a step up so I'm sure you will be satisfied with it.

[Ed Jobe]

We have had the 1055cm for about the same period. No probs either. You haven't said anything about your requirements. HP printers a generally not designed for high production like Xerox of KIP, but they are reasonably priced and quality machines for medium duty shops. All we've ever had are HP's. We also have an HP800ps that is a little slower, but has higher quality outpur for maps/images, etc.

[Mlabell]

We have the HP1055 plus, and have thrown everything at it, make sure to max out the memory though. We have experienced no problems in the three years that we have had it besides routine maintenance. Depending on what type of files and paper sizes that you will be using there may be some custom setup required. Have you ever used HP large format plotters? What is your current setup, and page sizes that you print to?

Our current plotter setup is the HP 1055cm plus and a KIP 3000. The HP is pretty much a color only plotter, and we have a KIP 3000 for production plots, scanning and copying.

P.S. if you end up getting this plotter reply back with any questions on setup for your users, I know that I have experienced, as well as othesr probably have some minor tweaking that needs to be done, and we would gladly help you transition.

[zoomharis]

I don't know if this will help but we've been using the HP Designjet 1050C Plus for about 5 years now and never had any problems with it. Also it is a real workhorse and holds alot of ink and paper. From what I've read the 1055cm Plus is a step up so I'm sure you will be satisfied with it.
We have had the 1055cm for about the same period. No probs either. You haven't said anything about your requirements. HP printers a generally not designed for high production like Xerox of KIP, but they are reasonably priced and quality machines for medium duty shops. All we've ever had are HP's. We also have an HP800ps that is a little slower, but has higher quality outpur for maps/images, etc.
We have the HP1055 plus, and have thrown everything at it, make sure to max out the memory though. We have experienced no problems in the three years that we have had it besides routine maintenance. Depending on what type of files and paper sizes that you will be using there may be some custom setup required. Have you ever used HP large format plotters? What is your current setup, and page sizes that you print to?



Our current plotter setup is the HP 1055cm plus and a KIP 3000. The HP is pretty much a color only plotter, and we have a KIP 3000 for production plots, scanning and copying.



P.S. if you end up getting this plotter reply back with any questions on setup for your users, I know that I have experienced, as well as othesr probably have some minor tweaking that needs to be done, and we would gladly help you transition.
Thanks a lot guys. Glad to see that there is answer for everything in AUGI. We are basically working on Oil & Gas industry specialised in Instrumentation. We do Engineering, Procurement and Construction. Our drawings are mostly plotted in A4 ( Instrument Loop Diagrams, Interconnection Diagrams, Junction Box Wiring Diagrams etc.). A few Block Diagrams, Equipment / Cable Routing Layouts and Single Line Diagrams are plotted in A1 at the final submission. The only colour plotting I remeber is of Overall System Architecture drawing. For A3 plotting, we have HP 8100 for b/w and HP5500 for colour. As a whole, I would say the load on the new machine will be minimum. These are the details I was supposed to provide you people in the first thread :).

Thanks again

[mmccarter]

We have had a 1050 for about 5 years which was running with a very heavy workload, so a year or so ago we bought a 1055 to help it out. Both are used alot every day for a combination of A1 and A0 plots for topographical surveys or complex elevations.

The only problem I have found with them was that initially we had them set up to queue the plots with in their internal memory. We ran into some problems when there was alot of plots queued in the internal memory and a paper jam occured when switching from film to paper etc.
The only way to fix the paper jam would be to turn the plotter off, this then meant that all the plots held in the internal memory would be lost and need to be resent.
We now only hold one plot on the internal memory and queue everything else on the network.

Apart from this minor problem which we have now fixed I would recomend these printers.