Wide Format Printer

[glorybound]

What are you guys using? we are looking for one, for another office we are opening. Mainly for 24"x36" storyboards, so it needs to be color. Also, we will print black and white cad drawings.

[mikeh]

OCE wave...fastest machine on the planet.
mh

[glorybound]

I was looking into this awhile back, but it was to new. Do you have one?

http://global.oce.com/products/colorwave650/

[flino2004]

I'm going to buy a designjet T120 next week, there is a good one also by canon but it uses more cartridges.
Take a look at HP designjet T520 as well

[Pixelcon]

we have a colorwave 600 at work. Its quick but it takes about 20 mins to warm up :/

[glorybound]

was it pretty expensive?

we have a colorwave 600 at work. Its quick but it takes about 20 mins to warm up :/

[Pixelcon]

I had nothing to do with the purchase but I presume it was very expensive. A quick search yields a price of around $20k including installation an training. Not sure if that's outright, how leasing it affects costs, and how much the operational costs are...

[glorybound]

I am meeting with a rep this morning, so I'll have to see.

[mikeh]

I was looking into this awhile back, but it was to new. Do you have one?

http://global.oce.com/products/colorwave650/

We have 2 Oce machines. One BW-only (Faster than the colorwave) and the OCE colorwave. The colorwave is this fast...I send to it... then walk down a flight of stairs to the machine... and the print is waiting.
The BW version is unbelievably faster. Both machines are HONKING BIG. The Colorwave has different quality levels. Production level being the fastest. As you go higher in quality, the speed goes down.
mh

[mikeh]

the other nice thing about the OCE is that it spools extremely fast and doesn't choke on large print files like other machines we have that are now sitting unused.
mh

[glorybound]

We have an OCE 750, which is great. We also have the Canon IPF8300, which is a year old, and I just replaced the print head ($500). The problem is, the space we have is very limited.

[cadmonkey33]

We have the Colorwave 600 too. Great printer. A world away from the Designjets we used to use.

[glorybound]

my guys quoted about $50,000, so it wasn't an option. I m not sure if it was the 600, but even the cheapest one was way to expensive.

We have the Colorwave 600 too. Great printer. A world away from the Designjets we used to use.

[flino2004]

Everything depends on the load of work, how many boards you are expecting to print as well as construction documents?
If you want the expensive plotter you could lease it, few firm buy those.

[glorybound]

We are leasing our Oce 750