Epsom Stylus Pro 9000

[Anonymous]

Someone has offered to sell me this "new" Epsom plotter, for "pennies on the dollar." I don't know anything about it. Would it be appropriate for simple plotting tasks, such as architectural working drawings?

Thanks.

[owen]

The Epson Stylus Pro 9000 was once one of their high end large format printers .. so it should be more than adequate.

We just upgraded to a 9800, however before this our 9000 was being used for all our large format printing, from B&W drawings to glossy photographic panels. It is a little slow, but if you aren't doing big runs it should be fine.

Only issue you might want to consider is there are no Epson drivers available for OS X - you would need to use 3rd party drivers such as the GIMP / Gutenprint drivers and I can't guarantee they will work. The reason we replaced it (aside from speed, its over 7 years old AFAIK) was the Hardware RIP box connecting it to our network died and we (along with Epson) could never get it to work on our OS X network on its own. You may want to see if you can get it working with your machine/network before handing over your spare change