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posted: 7 Jul 2010 10:45 from: Stephen Freeman
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Hi, Recently I had occasion to dust off my ancient Roland Plotter and use it. Purpose was twofold. 1) I had just run out of normal A3 paper and only had plotter paper to hand having used most of my supply for a rather large project. 2) I wanted to test it out, as I have decided to use it for other purposes, namely custom waterslide transfer and pcb production (one-offs mainly) plus it also gives me the possibility for small quantities of chemical etching. How you might ask is this possible? Well, I originally bought the thing, many moons ago to produce artwork for just that but technology overtook the need for hardcopy and I was too busy to go further with it (all pre-dates my business activity). You can get special pens for it which can be used for putting down resist, for pcbs the only problem is board thickness, standard 1.6mm is too thick so I'll probably have to get some 0.8mm to meet my requirements on that score. Transfers - opaque water proof ink is not a problem in black,red or white and can go onto standard decal stock. Apologies for the ramblings but I'll get to the nub of issue now. Templot still offered to calibrate my printer but I don't see how it can do this, in any event I used it uncalibrated without problem. Am I missing something here? Stephen |
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posted: 7 Jul 2010 12:23 from: Martin Wynne
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Borg-Rail wrote:Templot still offered to calibrate my printer but I don't see how it can do this, in any event I used it uncalibrated without problem. Am I missing something here?Hi Stephen, Provided: 1. the plotter has a Windows printer driver (i.e. appears in the Windows list of installed printers -- if not you won't be able to use it in Templot anyway), and 2. you answered "impact printer or pen-plotter" in the printer setup dialogs, you should be able to calibrate it in the usual way: 2_070720_130000000.png For impact printers and plotters Templot omits any solid infill on the rails and timbers, and omits the drawing of a saddle-tank locomotive on the calibration test sheet. (Impact printers means old-style dot-matrix printers and electric typewriters using an ink-ribbon.) regards, Martin. |
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posted: 7 Jul 2010 18:07 from: Alan Turner
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I have an HP 7475A. Can I ask where you get your pens and ink from, in particular white? Alan |
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