----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Hi, Sami - For sheet-fed, large-format color plotters, you've basically got two choices these days, Tektronix or HP. I view sheet-fed as the only way to go if you will have users doing the plotting, i.e., you don't want to hire somebody to run the plotter full time. If you have a mainframe or serious Unix box and have somebody to run things full time, then Calcomp-Versatec and Iris are possibilities. Expect to pay around $10K US for the Tektronix or HP + whatever shipping to S.A. Expect to pay something considerably more than that for the Calcomp-Versatec or the Iris. All of them will require that you use their special magic printing "juice" or whatever they use for the "ink" source. They all have special magic paper as well, but both Iris and Tektronix allow you to print on anything you want from rice paper (in Tektronix's minimum paper thickness) to Bristol board (Tektronix's maximum paper thickness) and cardboard (Iris' maximum paper thickness). HTH. vh -- \ / Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California 0 Bellnet: 310.206.7588 Oo Email: [log in to unmask] http://www.ioa.ucla.edu/~hetrick Site of the month: http://www.2chicks.org/