topic Re: Printing vs. Plotting in Documentation

Printing vs. Plotting

Stephen Dolbee — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:19:20 GMT

I know from time to time this issue has been raised-to plot or to print. I did not think it really mattered until today. For the first time, we tried to "print" using our old Hp designjet 250. Since we only print black and white "line drawings" (construction documents), we set it to print in "draft mode". The drawings came out fine and the speed increase was incredible! From about 10 min./sheet to 2 1/2 min./sheet (24"X36"). Since there doesn't seem to be a way to change this setting for plotting, we will be PRINTING from now on!
Sorry, if everyone else knew this. It was a revelation to me.

Steve

Re: Printing vs. Plotting

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 05:19:44 GMT

Stephen

I think plot quality is controlled by the panel on the HP plotter so you play with the setting there. From memory sending draft to an HP 210 had a significant drop in quality but on an HP 1055CM we use the draft setting for all our plots, experiment with your HP 250.

regards

Re: Printing vs. Plotting

Stephen Dolbee — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 16:08:21 GMT

Bill wrote:
Stephen

I think plot quality is controlled by the panel on the HP plotter

Those buttons actually do something?

Steve