HP Designjet 450C 36" Wide Format Printer Plotter

Discussion in 'Large Format Inkjet Printers' started by MrToner, Aug 4, 2016.

  1. MrToner

    MrToner New Member

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  2. Jeff

    Jeff Senior Member

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    I had a Designjet 750C that ran for 15 years!!! (Started with a 350C before that.) The only maintenance I had to do on it was to replace the drive belt once. The cartridge station (where the cartridges sit and get capped when at rest) could have been replaced too as the cartridges tended to clog more as it got older. The resolution wasn't very high by today's standards, but the biggest problem I faced with it and the reason I didn't bring it with me to a new location and decided to put my money towards a newer printer instead was that I couldn't get drivers for windows 7 64-bit or 10 64-bit and so to print with it I was running xp in a virtual machine, plus I found I often had to rasterize and then print to avoid surprises. So I'd check to see if you are able to get a driver to support it from the operating system you want to run.
     
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