Plotters
Enhanced
HP
DesignJet plotter
Hewlett-Packard has enhanced the
DesignJet monochrome
plotter
C
with the
emulation of
GL, support for the
new HP JetDirect card for UNIX-
based systems and
cartridges, a protected mode
AutoCAD
driver, and improved
front panel menus. This version of
the HP DesignJet plotter now
is
available.
Features and benefits
HP
GL
emulation
-
HP
plotter supports
HP GL through an HP
emulation mode. If you use HP GL
drivers or HP GL as your standard
plotter language, you now can use
the HP DesignJet plotter. The
plotter uses
and HP RTL,
a raster transfer language that
allows vector and raster data to be
merged in a single plot.
Network
options
-
Both the original and the
enhanced HP
plotter
will
work with the HP JetDirect
card
for
UNIX-
based systems, including
Sun
and
SCO
UNIX. With
this
interface
installed in the plotter's modular
interface option slot, the plotter
can be placed anywhere on the
network for location flexibility.
The card allows data to be
transferred as fast as the plotter
can accept it. The
plotter also works with the
HP JetDirect card for Novell
Ethernet
and the HP JetDirect card for
HP-IB
High-capacity
-
These new cartridges
also work with
HP
printers and the
DesignJet plotter. The
new cartridges provide twice the
ink
of the previous cartridges.
The plotter uses two cartridges
simultaneously and can plot
standard E-size plots in final mode
or 360 E-size plots in draft mode.
New
driver
-
The
plotter ships with both a protected
mode and a real mode AutoCAD
driver
The protected mode driver
provides a 30 to
increase
in
performance over the real mode
driver and works
with
386 ver-
sions of AutoCAD Releases 10 and
11.
The real mode driver is for use
with
of AutoCAD Release 10 and 11.
The disk contains a
on using
AutoCAD with the HP DesignJet
plotter. When using either driver
with the HP
plotter, set
the graphics language designation
to
GL. The new AutoCAD
driver
is
available from
the HP forum of
Front-panel improvements
-
The
panel provides more
control. You can select
times that match your needs and
environmental conditions. Pen
widths match
standard sizes,
ranging from 0.13 to 12.0
A
new paper-saving mode advances
and cuts roll media drawings to
the actual size of the drawing.
Upgrade kit
-
Current
HP DesignJet users can upgrade
to the enhanced model by pur-
chasing the upgrade
Contact your HP representative for
more information.
Product No.
HP
plotter
HP
card for
based systems
Upgrade kit, includes
installation
is
a U.S. trademark
HP Computer Update, March 1992
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