Advantages: Prints are massive and very high quality Disadvantages: Big initial outlay - unlikely to be useful for the average home user.
...We decided to buy the HP DesignJet 130, A1 Inkjet Printer mainly due to its price but also because we were allowed to have a demonstration. It costs £820.12 excluding VAT (as we are a registered charity for fundraising purposes we don’t pay VAT) adding VAT to the price will raise it to £963.64.
It does appear to be a large amount of money, but many other departments in the NHS and social services are in the same boat so we will be able to share ... ...cost which isn’t bad
HP DesignJet 130, A1 Inkjet Printer
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This printer is not as big as one would expect considering the size it prints out. Its dimensions are 1050 x 415 x 220 mm (W x D x H) and it weighs 22 kg. It has 6 individual ink cartridges; black, cyan, magenta, yellow, light cyan and light magenta. The maximum paper size is 1625 mm x 625 mm (Length x Width) and it leaves a border of 5 mm at the ...
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Advantages: reliability quality and very very cheap to buy. Disadvantages: can be a little slow upto 45 minutes to print a high quality picture.
The hewlitt packard 500 plus.
I do not have a bad word to say about this.
the printer is employed in my printing company for producing one off prints large scale and it does the job without any quarms.
i have gone through loads of ink cartridges for this which does add up.
but the money you can make for your time is well worth it.
it is a little slow but if you are going to use it to print plans or like me one off prints it is fine if you can ... ...a bargain.
I have never had any problems with this machine at all,
I have printed literally hundreds of 60 inch by 40 inch pictures on it,
you do have to look after the machine try to keep dust out of it don't put dusty paper rolls in. Try to stick with official paper it does a better job.
as for running costs well in my experience based on the ammount of ink I put on a poster:
on a 42 inch roll this machine costs in the region of £7 per metre ...
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Advantages: None Disadvantages: Never work well from the begging, tech support terrible
...the cutter defective it took HP about a two weeks to have a new cutter send to the technician that was fixing the plotter. When I finally got my cutter working properly the car in which the cutter runs was not working properly. The technician requested info from HP and never got and answers back. I had to cal
