With most current wide-format LED printers, the replacement procedure requires an expensive service visit by a factory-trained technician. Now, these parts have all been incorporated into one easy-to-replace process cartridge much similar to today’s desktop laser printers. The replaceable drum feature is a nice option for us. It helped lower our cost- per-copy charges as well as reduce downtime, he reports.One feature that really impressed Chapman was that the LP-1010-MF offers the industry’s first user-replaceable drum in a wide-format printer LED plotter. The user-replaceable drum includes the photo processing unit, lens, and charge wire. With this unique capability, owners can replace their photo processing unit by themselves.
One design firm that recently made the digital transition was Allied Steel of Los Angeles, CA. Allied Steel is a steel fabrication company that has been in business for more than 50 years. They specialize in helping design water and sewer treatment plants as well as other types of steel structures. Chris Chapman, project manager at the company reports that up until this year they were still using traditional methods when it came to outputting blueprints. We were a little late to the digital party.
Over the past few years the blueprinter/reprographer community has gone through a major transition in technology. Today, the originals, with which reprographers work with don’t exist on a drawing board, but as a series of bits and bytes on a computer screen. As a whole, the reprographic industry has not only embraced this digital revolution, but is now using these electronic changes to develop new markets and services.
We were still using an old traditional blueprint machine that used the yellow paper and ammonia. Our supplier, KB Blue Prints, told us that they weren’t going to be supporting these types of analog machines anymore. So we started shopping for a new digital unit.