About plotter and the issue of HP plotter to repair

Author: Tiffany Morris

The Plotter is the first type of printer that prints with the advanced feature than the regular printer. It is bigger from a regular printer. It could print in color with the graphic and in a full size of drawings by engineers. The plotter commands and interprets from a computer to make line drawings on paper with more than one automated pens. From vector graphics commands or files, the plotter can draw continuous point-to-point lines directly like drawing any structure of building on A4 size of paper. There are three different types of plotter:

  1. Drum plotter: This type of plotter used to print by the process of wrapping around the drum to one direction of the plot where the pen moves in another direction.
  2. Flatbed Plotter: It creates plotting on a flat surface
  3. Electrostatic plotter: With negatively charged paper and positively charged toner the plotter creates under electrostatic plotter.

Now you decide which type of plotter you have a drum, flat or electrostatic. Normally plotter is most expensive than the normal printer. HP (Hewlett-Packard) is the leading vendor in plotter manufacturing. Most of the users of plotter recognize HP. This is most frequently used for computer-aided engineering or CAE application, like CAD (computer-aided design) and CAM (Computer-aided manufacturing).

Used too of any things of electronic machines going to show the problems and that problem should be diagnosed or repairs. Any mechanic or any barber can’t solve the solution we need to see the diagnostic center solve the issues of the machine and the laptop service center is one way to the complaint and manages the problem.

There are few most common problems in plotter machines for HP plotter repair :

1. Dead in the print head: Using a printer or plotter overtime going to effects on the head of the printer. It just likes a brake on your vehicle, the more you use the more it will lose. An improper care leads to the certain issues like:

  • Failure in the print head early to culprit bigger when it is not in use.
  • With thousands of microscopic nozzle in the printhead can go to dry the ink.

The precaution is to leave the machine’s power on so the maintenance going to perform well in the automation cycle and another is to check the head by routine print calibration from which the estimation of ink’s quality determine.

2. Jamming and distort of paper: Most of the user have relied on the gravity-fed delivery system of plotter or printer. The sheet of paper which is printed sometimes prints and become garbage to the basket of dustbin due to wrapping over the jams.

  • The issues of jams are often and exaggerate by a curling plan from inkjet printers. So try to use the printer of heavier stock.
  • From the problem of static electricity, there will possibility of an issue in LED plotter. The solution is a correction with anti-static measurement.
3. Compatible software: The biggest issue when there is Windows 7 concern. Many plotter manufactures systems drop the support of software on an old model when announces to hardware support in advance version. The clash of supporting a hardware and software take place while installing a plotter and changing the operating system of the computer.