D&D 5E I bought a wide format printer!

[darjr]

Saw one of these show up on craigslist for sub $200. Just in time for my Wednesday night players to go into Strahd's castle.

Note that the print in the photo was printed without a working cyan cartridge.

And I love the Parnast map from AL. I just wish the original artist would make one without the cloud castle in it.

 

[77IM]

Nice! How wide is it?

I wanted to get one of these but they were all like $1000. It turns out that this is mostly because they are only available as professional quality printers, and those start at around $1000.

 

[darjr]

36 inches, about.

 

[darjr]

Looking around these older ones keep poping up. At 600dpi they are no longer good enough for many professionals, but just perfect for my needs. This was a first generation plotter that is really a glorified injet printer. It's built like a tank and this one was taken well care of.

 

[Jester David]

Niiiice.

Is it hard getting paper or ink cartridges? How expensive to maintain?

 

[darjr]

Looks like I can get color cartridges for about $11 and black for $9. A set of refillable ink is about $30, lots of ink. Rolls of paper 155 feet long go for $20-30. Poster like paper goes for more. But I can print on my easel one inch grid paper as well and I have a ton of that. Also a friend of mine who's dad is a retired architect may have quite a bit of ink.

 

[Scott DeWar]

Looking around these older ones keep popping up. At 600dpi they are no longer good enough for many professionals, but just perfect for my needs. This was a first generation plotter that is really a glorified inkjet printer. It's built like a tank and this one was taken well care of.

My brother has or had 60" wide printers professional ink jet - and before the .com bubble bursting He had a thriving business in wide format printing.

He still has the wide format business, but he had to merge with another hard hit printing business.

 

[Morrus]

Looks like I can get color cartridges for about $11 and black for $9. A set of refillable ink is about $30, lots of ink. Rolls of paper 155 feet long go for $20-30. Poster like paper goes for more. But I can print on my easel one inch grid paper as well and I have a ton of that. Also a friend of mine who's dad is a retired architect may have quite a bit of ink.

How long does an ink cartridge last when printing images of that size?

And -- wow! I'm very jealous! Sadly, I wouldn't have space for such a thing, but I would love one!

 

[Plaguescarred]

Wow nice machine it's gonna be useful i'm sure!

 

[Scott DeWar]

Oh, the game day maps that can be mad on one of those! . . . . . . . . it boggles the mind . . . . .