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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I was forced to resample the monster graphic and double its size on output to get the banner printed – until….<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I learned that HP has a new, free product called eShare from Kevin Standland.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="https://h30510.www3.hp.com/?jumpid=re_R10931_go/eprintandshare">https://h30510.www3.hp.com/?jumpid=re_R10931_go/eprintandshare</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>This utility made it far easier to plot the huge banner. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The utility is also designed to store graphics on a common web-base system. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I was able to add the enormous JPEG file directly. It takes Autodesk DWF files too. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The colors were more vibrant when the plotter was controlled by eprint than they were from my resampled image. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chip Birdsong can still find a setting for rasterizing on the computer in his driver set. That’s what I was looking for from the start, but I still can find no reference to it on the current HPGL2 or PostScript drivers for the Z6100<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>I could turn off queuing on the plotter and tell it to start printing instantly – but it would not print the large file from Corel or ArcGIS by streaming data. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I tried copying a 10 MB RTL file with directed output to the plotter with queuing off but it still would not plot it. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It seems to be related to file size, but it shouldn’t care about size when a file is streamed. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have streamed plot data in the past from machines running SunOS, OS/2 and Windows . <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>William B. Porter <b>william.porter@famu.edu<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Application Coordinator for GIS / Infrastructure<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Florida A&M University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>EIT / GIS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>1601 S. M L King <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>Suite 303<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>TLH FL 32307<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>