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| Subject: | RE: GISList: After One Year With Our Kodak 3000 Series Plotter |
| Date: |
02/12/2003 02:29:57 PM |
| From: |
Ryan Morgan, Aerials Express |
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I highly recommend Scott Blue Reprographics: Michael Parks 480-833-3912.
They are out of Phoenix, but can get anything to you.
We were looking at an Epson Piezo as well (the Kodak is defined as a piezo
printer, essential for printing photography) but their paper/ink costs were
higher at the time, and rumor was their technology only worked well with
their papers.
:)
Ryan
-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian "Butch" Clark [mailto:aclark221@comcast.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 1:17 PM
To: Ryan Morgan, Aerials Express
Subject: Re: GISList: After One Year With Our Kodak 3000 Series Plotter
Ryan:
I am in the process of researching color plotters in the 36" - 42" range,
for a purchase this month or next. I have just about settled on the HPDJ800
42" ($6213.00 w/tax and extras, including set-up and training). Which
plotters did you compare prior to buying the Kodak 3000, who and where was
your vendor?
Adrian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Morgan, Aerials Express" <RMorgan@AerialsExpress.com>
To: "MapInfo-L" <MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com>: "Manifold-L"
<manifold-l@lists.directionsmag.com>: "Gislist@Geocomm. Com"
<gislist@geocomm.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:58 AM
Subject: GISList: After One Year With Our Kodak 3000 Series Plotter
> Pardon the cross-posting...
>
> I'd like to compare notes with any other MI Pro, Manifold, ESRI users out
> there printing with a Kodak 3000 series Plotter. I would also like to
> welcome any of your comments on experiences with other plotters as well.
As
> plotter/paper/ink consumers, our efforts to communicate and compare notes,
> can result in lower prices, and better service for all. Your expert
> contribution is greatly appreciated.
>
> In February, 2002 we paid $7,500.00 for a new Kodak 3062 60" Large Format
> Printer. Since then, it has been running 6-14 hours a day for one year
now,
> without hardly a hitch. After nearly 6000 feet of 60" paper (30,000 sqft)
> and 190 220ml ink cartridges printing exclusively aerial photography in
> stunning detail, we have found our 3062 to be both reliable and low
> maintenance. Through a local distributor we are paying $160.50 per roll
of
> Kodak 60" 180g Premium Glossy paper and $76.50 per ink cartridge.
>
> In the course of a year we have gone through the following amounts of ink
> (broken down by color):
>
> Cyan: 6 cartridges, 3%
> Yellow: 33 cartridges, 17%
> Magenta: 9 cartridges, 5%
> Black: 21 cartridges, 11%
> Light Cyan: 54 cartridges, 28%
> Light Magenta: 67 cartridges, 35%
>
> The following service / maintenance has been preformed:
>
> In June, 2002 a technician came out to replace a defective drive motor.
> In October, 2002 Kodak sent a software update which was installed in the
> plotter via PCMCIA card.
> In February, 2003 a technician came out to clean and replace the
> "maintenance station," or head cleaner.
> All services were completely covered under warranty.
>
> We did not purchase rip software, like Onyx PosterShop because the plotter
> came with a basic, proprietary rip called Kodak Easy Print. In fact, we
> looked into Onyx, but at that time they did not support the plotter
because
> (and I'm not making this up) the plotter HAS NO DRIVER and can only print
> image formats like .jpg, .tif, .bmp, etc. That's right, there is no
> traditional driver for the plotter, so printing directly from MapInfo in
the
> traditional sense is impossible because there isn't a printer installed
that
> one can choose from. Instead, we use Adobe Distiller to create a .pdf,
and
> then rasterize the .pdf in Photoshop, which gives us greater, and faster
> control over color, size, etc. than a rip can.
>
> A Pentium 4 with 1.5 GB of RAM, creating a 45"X45" layout using .ecw
> photography and various vector GIS data layers takes about 10 minutes to
> create a 600dpi .pdf. The same computer then takes about 40 minutes to
> rasterize the .pdf at 300dpi, 30 minutes at 250dpi. Color enhancements
(if
> needed) are made, the image can be enlarged to any appropriate size above
> 45"X45", cut into tiles if a boundary is to exceed 59", and saved as a
.tif
> image(s). Here's the good part, once Easy Print is pointed to the file
and
> told to print, the plotter begins printing immediately, and batch
processes
> the image to the plotter as printing continues. This allows us to print
> from any workstation, AND allows the user of that workstation to continue
> running other processes on their machine at the same time. We do not have
a
> dedicated computer running the plotter (unless you consider my own t
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