-=> Quoting Eric Herring to Floyd Williams <=-
 -> I'm using autocad Release 12. Anyone recommend a printer (brand name)
 -> for a home office that uses paper up to size 11 x 17 inches. One that
 -> will allow setting line intensities so that background or center
 -> lines will appear on the printed page much lighter than
 -> the principal parts of the drawing.
 
 EH> In what price range? If you want a laser the HP 4V works well for
 EH> about $2000.
     Cannon has just introduced a color BJ printer capable of handling
     ledger size (11x17). The model BJC-4550 sells on the street for
     about $500. All previous brands and models that would handle this
     size of paper, STARTED at about the $1700-1800 price range. So,
     it's really a breakthrough.
     
     More details about the BJC-4550:
     Print Resolution - color: 720x360dpi on plain paper
                        black: 720x360dpi with smoothing 
                        
     Paper types: 
     Plain, high resolution paper, back print film, high gloss
            film, transparencies, fabric sheets, T-shirt transfers,
            water resistant BJ paper, greeting cards, brochure paper
            and envelopes.
     Built-in sheet feeder/letter-100, legal-100, ledger-50, envelopes-15
     Print speed: high quality color - 1 page/min
                  high quality b/w -   5 pages/min
     64KB Buffer/Ram      Mac or PC interface  
     Dimensions: 17.6"W x 8.5"H x 10"D Weight - 9.5lbs.
     Comes with 300+ True-Type(tm) fonts on CD-ROM, 7 resident bitmap.
     No I don't work for or sell this product. Just wanted to pass on this
     info, 'cause I spent several months looking for just such a machine,
     to find out that they were out of my price range, and settled on a HP 
     820Cse, instead. Which is an excellent machine, don't get me wrong, 
     but I would have been happier with one that would have allowed me to 
     retire my old Panasonic KX-P-1624, dot matrix dinosaur.
     
     Just a hunch, but now that Cannon has broken the ice, don't be 
     surprised to see the other major players follow suit. 
     So if you don't care for Cannon, perhaps it might be wise to wait 
     a while and see what shakes out.
... What was I doing again????
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