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cadalystlabsreview less when IEEE 1394 is mounted), and 1 W or less with the power off. Canon USA offers a full line of products from 13” x 19” to 60”-wide output, with the imagePROGRAF line incorporating a 1.07” print head that has 7,680 nozzles. Designjet T610 Printer Series, T1100 Printer Series The Canon imagePROGRAF iPF9000S is a thermal aqueous ink-jet printer that can accommodate media as wide as 60” and as thick as 0.8 mm at a maximum output resolution of 2,400 x 1,200 dpi. hour). At $5,395, the iPF720 is the least expensive of the three Canon wide-format printers featured here, and that price includes a one-year limited warranty. The second printer is the imagePROGRAF iPF8000S, also a thermal aqueous ink-jet device. The iPF8000S handles sheets as wide as 44” and as thick as 0.8 mm with a maximum output resolution of 2,400 x 1,200 dpi. It has larger ink cartridges at either 330 mL or 700 mL for both black and individual colors and accommodates cut sheets and roll media with a built-in paper cutter. It offers a normal quality speed of 3 minutes, 10 seconds for A0 size plain paper (180 ft2 /hour). The iPF8000S includes a Canon printer driver and print plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop and Canon’s Digital Photo Professional. It features 384 MB of onboard RAM and, like the iPF270, connects via USB 2.0 or 10/100Base-T/TX, with an optional IEEE 1394 (FireWire) connection. The Canon iPF8000S is priced at $5,995, which includes a one-year limited warranty. Canon’s imagePROGRAF iPF9000S is a thermal aqueous ink-jet device that can handle sheets as wide as 60” and as thick as 0.8 mm at a maximum output resolution of 2,400 x 1,200 dpi. Like the iPF8000S, the iPF9000S offers two ink tank sizes — 330 mL or 700 mL — for both black and individual colors. It accommodates cut sheets as well as rolls and incorporates a built-in paper cutter. Output speed at normal setting is 3 minutes, 10 seconds for an A0 size plain paper sheet (211 ft2/hour). Connectivity options, as with the other two Canon devices, are USB 2.0 or 10/100Base-T/TX, with a FireWire IEEE 1394 connection being an optional extra. This model features 640 MB of onboard RAM and ships with a Canon printer driver for Windows and print plug-ins for Photoshop and Digital Photo Professional. Producing the largest sheet size of the three Canon wide-format printers in this roundup, the imagePROGRAF iPF9000S is — not surprisingly — one of the most expensive at $14,995, with a one-year limited warranty. All three Canon wide-format printers use GARO, a proprietary Canon printer language, and all three offer the option to print lower-quality but faster draft versions. Power consumption for the iPF720 is 140 W or less, 5 W or less on standby mode (10 W or less with FireWire IEEE 1394), and 1 W or less with power off. Both the iPF8000S and iPF9000S have a maximum power consumption of 190 W or less, 5 W or less in standby mode (10 W or 22 HP is no stranger to wide-format printing, and the company offers a number of innovative devices. For this article, we looked at the HP Designjet T610 Printer Series and the Designjet T1100 Printer Series. (Covered later in this article is the Designjet T1100MFP multifunction printer–scanner– copier.) The HP Designjet T610 thermal ink-jet printers can handle sheets as thick as 31.5 mil in widths ranging from 8.5” to 24” and rolls in widths ranging from 11” to 24”; the 44” models handle 8.5”- to 44”-wide sheets and 11” to 44” rolls. An automatic paper cutter is built in. The Designjet T610 printers can output at a maximum resolution of 2,400 x 1,200 dpi (optimized) at a speed of 30 ft2 /hour (2.8 m2 /hour) in best-color mode. They incorporate 128 MB of RAM and connect via a single high-speed USB 2.0 certified port, an EIO Jetdirect accessory slot, or optional HP Jetdirect print servers. HP-GL/2 and HP-RTL Windows drivers are provided, as is an optimized Windows driver for AutoCAD 2000 and later. Support for Citrix MetaFrame environments is provided, as is an HP PCL3GUI driver for Mac OS X. Supported printer languages are HPHP 404.995.4545 www.hp.com/go/designjetT610 www.hp.com/go/designjetT1100 Prices: $2,595+, T610 Printer Series; $3,595+, T1100 Printer Series The Designjet T610 printers incorporate 128 MB of RAM and connect via a single high-speed USB 2.0 certified port, an EIO Jetdirect accessory slot, or optional HP Jetdirect print servers. www.cadalyst.com cadalyst September 2008 http://www.hp.com/go/designjetT610 http://www.hp.com/go/designjetT1100 http://www.cadalyst.com

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Cadalyst - September 2008 Contents Editor's Window Cad Central Tech Trends: Genie Out of the Bottle Cadalyst Labs Reviews: Big Tools for Big Jobs — Wide-Format Scanners and Printers Make Small Work of Large Projects Cadalyst Labs Reviews: AutoCAD 2009 — General-Purpose CAD Software Cadalyst Labs Reviews: AecBatchStylesEditor 2009 — CAD Standards Management Software for AEC Cad manager: Synchronize CAD Files over a Wide Area MCAD Modeling: Is 2D Drawing Doomed? Plm Strategies: More Bang for Your Truck Aec Insight: Works and Plays Well with Others Cad Cartoon Issue Indexes Hot Tip Harry: VBA Hints for Customizing AutoCAD

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