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Article: Fast and flexible inkjet plotters. (Special Report: Cadence Lab).(HP Designjet 1055cm Plus, XES X2-TECH large-format printers)(Evaluation)
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- Cadence
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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Inkjet plotters have been the mainstay of the industry for years but have lagged behind fast laser plotters in paper handling. That has changed with HP's DesignJet 1055CM with multi-roll feeder and Xerox Engineering Systems' X2-TECH. Both are multiple-roll color inkjet plotters that are fast and capable of switching sizes or types of media on the fly.
For running many copies of plan sets under the tight deadline most of you typically face, high-speed multi-roll laser plotters, such as those from Kip, Oce, and Xerox, can't be beat. But laser plotters don't offer the color capabilities of inkjets, and until recently, no inkjet plotter supported multiple rolls, ...