wide format (11x17 - 13x19) printer recommendations?

[matt wilkie]

We're looking to purchase a wide format (11x17 - 13x19) printer for
printing maps, any recommendations?

We will be using this printer pre-press proofing as well as production
map printing (cartographic quality). We expected to print about 5,000
full size pages per year. Duplex printing would be a plus.

We currently own an HP Designjet 20ps; while we are very happy with
its output it has proven to be a very finicky machine as well as being
quite slow. We are not sure we want to continue with this
machine/model.

Any replacement printer would have to at least equal the quality of
the 20ps. I'm especially interested in the Canon imagePrograf w2200.
Has anybody actually used it? What do you think?

thanks in advance,

-matt

(crosspost: http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=93&f=989&t=106842&mc=0)

 

[The village idiot]

(e-mail address removed) (matt wilkie) wrote in

We're looking to purchase a wide format (11x17 - 13x19) printer for
printing maps, any recommendations?

We will be using this printer pre-press proofing as well as production
map printing (cartographic quality). We expected to print about 5,000
full size pages per year. Duplex printing would be a plus.

We currently own an HP Designjet 20ps; while we are very happy with
its output it has proven to be a very finicky machine as well as being
quite slow. We are not sure we want to continue with this
machine/model.

Any replacement printer would have to at least equal the quality of
the 20ps. I'm especially interested in the Canon imagePrograf w2200.
Has anybody actually used it? What do you think?

thanks in advance,

-matt

(crosspost: http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=93&f=989&t=106842&mc=0)

I would recommend an Epson of some kind, most likely a pro7600. But most
people will shoot that down as being a crappy Epson.Funny, I never have all
the problems that other people have. If not the pro7600 I would say a used
7500 or maybe 7000. While a little bigger than what you are looking for, they
will be built for the demands of commercial printing. The 7500 and 7600 both
use pigment inks that are to some form waterproof too, though that may not
matter. After that you should look into some of the newer HP's but I can't
help you there.

 

[Yianni]

I also recomend Epson 7600 or HP 100/120. I don't know the Canon
imagePrograf w2200.
If you need postscript check for it.

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