The Advance Reprographics Plotting Department supports a wide variety of industry-standard file formats. If you are working in AutoCAD, we strongly recommend using the AutoCAD VIC driver to make accurate, print-ready files directly out of AutoCAD. The .vic is the native file format of Apprentice, our large-format print server. Both Apprentice and the VIC driver are made by AutoDesk. Upon installation, the VIC24.pc3 driver will appear in your AutoCAD plot configuration dialog along with you other plotters. For more information, click here.

If you are not using AutoCAD and want to send plot files, we recommend HGPL/2 plot files (configured for an HP 650, 750, 755CM, 1055, etc). Additonally, we can plot TIFF, CALS and PDF files. In order to plot native AutoCAD DWG files, we must receive all supporting files: fonts, Xrefs, .ctb/pc2, etc. To ensure all files are included, make an eTransmit (R2000 and higher) or Pack & Go (R14). Without all supporting files, we cannot guarantee either accuracy or a quick turnaround. Please note that we also charge more to plot AutoCAD DWG files than we do to plot other formats.

Files formats :

VIC [link to VIC page]

HPGL/2 plot files

HGPL plot files

PDF

LDF (made by the Oce Publisher) [link to the Oce Plan Center page]

TIFF Group IV

TIFF Group III

TIFF Packbits

TIFF Uncompressed

CalComp 906/907/PCI

CALS Group IV

HP-RTL (color and monochrome)

AutoCAD DWG (R2.5-R2002)

AutoCAD DXF

Media Accepted:

CD ROM

DVD-ROM

ZIP 100,250

3.5” Floppy

FTP

Email

Softwares :

AutoCAd

DPI :

300 dpi

Files formats :

PDF

TIFF

EPS

JPG

GIF

Media Accepted:

CD ROM

DVD-ROM

ZIP 100,250

3.5” Floppy

FTP

Email

Softwares :

Photoshop

Illustrator

QuarkXpress

PageMaker

FreeHand

InDesign

AppleWorks

MS Office (Word, Excel,PowerPoint)

CorelDraw

Publisher

DPI :

300 dpi