Printing, Plotting, Copying & Scanning of Plans and Technical Drawings
Features of our new Kip Equipment
- Full colour or black and white
- The fastest colour plan printer available in the world. 5 colour A1 plans per minute
- Waterproof toner based printing systems, not inkjet
- Up to 914mm wide and almost any length
- Copying and printing on paper, tracing and polyester
- Enlargements or reductions in one step
- Print hard copy or files - email, disk or USB device or upload from this site
- Scanning wide format in both colour and black and white
- Computerised quality management systems
- Two machines, KIP 80 for colour. KIP 5000 for black and white
KIP 80. The world's fastest colour plan printer. Microfilm Digital Print's is the first to be installed in New Zealand.
Send files for printing as attached emails to plans@digitalprint.co.nz or upload here.UPLOAD
See notes below if you want to know more about the kinds of files to send
Notes about plotting from CAD files
Option 1; PDF files
The most common and trouble free way to share and print files from your CAD system is through the use of PDF files. To create PDF files see information that relates to your particular CAD program. PDF stands for Portable Document File and was invented by a company called Adobe. See www.adobe.com
PDF files should contain all font, image and line weight information for accurate printing.
Option 2; HPGL/2 plot files
HPGL stands for Hewlett Packard Graphics Language. (2 is the version) HPGL/2 files are commonly known as plot or print files. They can be created by some CAD programs and by Microsoft Windows applications if a suitable printer or printer driver is installed, which you will have if you have ever printed to a wide format HP printer. We can provide you with a Hewlett Packard printer driver.
HPGL/2 files contain all font, image and line weight information for accurate printing.
Option 3; DWF files
DWF stands for Design Web Format. These files should not be confused with DWG and DXF files. DWF is a trade marked file sharing system developed Autodesk who make AutoCAD. See http://usa.autodesk.com
DWF files contain all font, image and line weight information for accurate printing.
Option 4; DWG and DXF files
DWG and DXF are the file extensions commonly used when saving and sharing CAD drawings but they do not carry all font, line weight and special fill information and are not particularly suitable for anyone to print from. A distinction should be made between these files, which are the actual files that CAD applications use to store drawings, and print or plot files.
DWG and DXF files do not contain font, image, and line weight information. We can print from them but drawings will have thin uniform line thickness and may not contain all the information required.
Summary
PDF and DWF files are used throughout the world to share, view and print CAD files. HPGL/2 files are used to print (or plot) drawings. DWG and DXF are native file formats that CAD programs read and write to, and from.
At Microfilm Digital Print we have specialist-printing applications designed for the purpose of printing and plotting the file types listed on these pages.
Important:
Responsibility for the accuracy of drawings resides with the originator of the drawing. Microfilm Ltd, proprietors of Microfilm Digital Print do not guarantee drawings against inaccuracies or omissions.
Printing CAD files.
Files can be sent to us attached to emails, by disk, USB device or directly uploaded to our server (by arrangement).
Scanning
We have three wide format scanning systems to cover a full range of requirements.
Up to 2400dpi but 200 to 600 recommended for plans
Scans saved to PDF, DWF, Tif G4, TLC, CAL G4, or JPG formats
- Automatic image de speckling
- Full colour, black & white and grayscale scanning
- 24 bit true colour
- Enhanced monochrome image quality
- Full range grayscale with no image dropout
- Flat bed scanner for items that require it
- Two moving throughput 914mm wide scanners
Printing System
New KIP 80 colour plan printer. This is the first KIP 80 in New Zealand and the fastest way to print colour plans and technical drawings. Up to 5 A1 colour plans per minute. Black and white plans can be copied and printed on either our KIP 5000 or the KIP80. Both machines are fast and use toner based technology.
Leaders in Plan Printing
In 1970 Microfilm was the first bureau to offer xerographic plan printing in Christchurch. In the early 1990’s we began wide format colour copying and we continue to be proud of the lead we take in this area. The newest equipment, installed in September 2008, will enable us to provide you with the best and most up to date wide format service possible.Microfilm Digital print utilizes the most up to date technology, the first Kip 2100 colour scanner in New Zealand and the first KIP 5000 b&w plan printer in the South Island, the first bureau to print colour plans in Christchurch, the first KIP 80 in New Zealand.
