help hp 7475a plotter

[frodo59]

can any one help i need aa hp 7475a plotter driver for xp can ant one help please?????

[CUTCNC]

You can buy from their aftersell service

[CalG]

A "driver" that allows you to send a file directly to a HPGL printer is nice, but a program that generates the HPGL format file must come first and is all that is required. From a DOS screen, terminal or terminal emulator, you have only to copy <somefile> Device/ttys0, or equivalent.

It's a "save as" sort of thing for the file. In the same way that a *. JPEG file will not open in a *.txt text editor. When yoiu say "driver" what you are really wanting is a file format converter. There are only a few programs that produce HPGL files anymore.

HPGL format is purely ASCII text based.

Some applications allow you to import alternate file formats, and convert them to HPGL to be sent to a printer.
There are scripts like "pstoedit" that do conversions also.
Some older AutoCad versions allowed saving and printing directly to HPGL machines.

There are applications such as Signgo (unsupported) that will send output files created in the application as HPGL.
With any application, you may "print to file" If the printer set up allows "save as HPGL" and your printer settings include "Generic HPGL printer" All is good.. After saving , just copy the file to the printer port.

If such settings and options are not available in your application, you will need to convert the file. (pstoedit)

You will need to have the correct connection cable, and communication settings in order to talk to the HP plotter.

Full documentation is available on the web.
HP Computer Museum
As well as much discussion. search "HPGL cutting plotter" and follow the trail till you have had enough ;-)

I have a 7475 myself, with a dedicated PC set up to send files to the plotter. Files are saved in HPGL format and transfered with a memory stick. It's been a while since I have needed to use the machine however.

Oh, There is link A bit thick for my needs, but gets to the core of what is going on inside HPGL in an interesting way.
Chiplotle Tools &mdash; Chiplotle v0.3.0 documentation

cheers

[TomA1]

Autodesk DWG Trueview can output hpgl.

It will only open .dxf or .dwg files, but it
will output to both my designjet [hpgl2]
and the Calcomp pen plotter [cpgl= calcomp hpgl hack].

It's free software.

hope this helps,

TomA1