Re: large format plotters - advice please
 

There's an HP 650c (A0) plotter c/w Postscript on eBay at the moment. Starts at £350 and currently there's no bids. If you use a postscript driver then this will use very little of your PC's resources.

http://tinyurl.com/3mvuvk

Or search for item 220286494608

Re: large format plotters - advice please
 

Thank you. That's a good find and I'll be watching it up to the wire..

Re: large format plotters - advice please
 

We use the OCE TDS400 at work, that seems to be able to cope with anything that we chuck at it, from all over the company, be it the AutoCad drawings of entire building installations to PDF's of them when sent to us.
I send PDF's in A1/A2 to it and it does fine.
It even manages to cope with me sending A3's that are 80% black ink (PCB with lots of groundplane on).

Although it has its own server, which is where your problem may be solved.
As said, its all about how the data is sent to it, not the format thats sent.