Hewlett-Packard Co has announced the HP DesignJet 220 plotter. Designed for the small office computer-aided design market, the monochrome inkjet plotter will replace Hewlett-Packard’s discontinued DesignJet 200 plotter. It is 40% faster than its predecessor and has a 600 dots-per-inch resolution mode. Hewlett-Packard say the plotter produces simple plots at up to five times the speed of pen plotters with an average A1 size plot taking three minutes. It has an optional HP JetDirect EX external network interface for access to Novell networks, TCP/IP, and LAN Manager. It will also connect to IBM Corp LAN Server, Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT, AIX, Solaris, SunOS and Token Ring networks. The DesignJet 220 plotter will ship with drivers for Microsoft Windows 3.1 and AutoCAD releases 10, 11 and 12. It switches automatically among HP-GL, HP-GL/2 and HP RTL, Hewlett-Packard’s raster transfer language and Hewlett-Packard’s PJL, its page-description languages. The D-sized plotter will cost $3,000 and the E-sized will retail for $4,000.
