For what it is worth, we bought an Epson 3000 for checkplotting
and love it. The plotter has (so far) been trouble free. The
only downside is that the media is expensive and so far we have
not found anything less than 4 mil film that is acceptable.

I'd love it if someone has found an ultra translucent vellum
that works well in an ink jet plotter

Doug Brooks





At 01:31 PM 4/14/98 -0400, you wrote:
>        My work group has recently purchased our first ink jet plotter,
and we're
>uncertain as to whether or not we like it yet.  It is used intermittently,
>maybe that is why we have been having problems with the cartridges
>malfunctioning before they run out of ink.  Is there a popular brand and
>model used in the PCB layout industry that is proven to be reliable?
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