Kimcz Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 I am trying to buy a new A3 printer. I am using v11 with Windows. I have used a HP1220c for many years with lots of problems. Bad pattern printing- different patterns printed No multiple copies. I have now tried a HP9800. Patterns are more accurate, but they are banded, not seamless as they are on screen. Again no muliple copies. It works fine in other programmes, and I have imported the uptodate driver from HP. Does anybody have any experience as to why this is happening? Is the HP1280 any better? Or are there A3 printers which are guaranteed to be totally compatible with VW. The system is brand new with plenty of oomph. Pentium D 830 2x250GB HD 128MB nVidia Quadro FX 1400 Quote Link to comment
michael john williams Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 I found my HP 1220 a great workhorse and had a few problems but kept going for 3 yrs and now using the HP1280 with great results Quote Link to comment
russellhall Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 I still use my HP1220 and have had no problems at all with VW12 (yet). Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted May 24, 2006 Share Posted May 24, 2006 many of my clients are happy with the canon 6500 Quote Link to comment
litebrite Posted May 24, 2006 Share Posted May 24, 2006 I use a 1220c at work and love it atleast so far. Seems to do what I need it to. Quote Link to comment
Kimcz Posted May 24, 2006 Author Share Posted May 24, 2006 I have tried the HP 9800 with VW11 and VW 12. The results for all patterns and productivity I got were: V11 Banding for patterns, problems encounted with v11 Try "Raster Print"-sometimes better but still unacceptable. Multiple prints with V11 -NO V12 Multiple prints with V12 -OK. Patterns only print accurately with "Raster Print" ativated-then all OK. If printing with only "patterns as monitor on screen",-some patterns, especially white upon colour, it prints as a solid colour. It would be nice to plug and play without problems. So far I have lost hours of hopefully productive time trying to sort out differences between Vecrorworks and HP printers. It should work seamlessly. It would be nice if Nemetschek would come into the debate as to which printers work or DO NOT WORK within the Vectorworks family. Quote Link to comment
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