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Buying an A0 plotter printer is a significant and long-term investment. As an AEC professional, you expect your plotter or wide format printer to last for years while giving you the best print quality, performance, and ease of use. Above all, it has to provide you with value for your money. But with all the different plotters and wide format printers in the Philippines on the market, how do you pick the right model and brand while ensuring that you get value for your money? Let's look at all the factors you need to consider when buying an A0 plotter that suits your needs.

Plotters have come a long way since the old flatbed pen plotters. Modern large-format printers are packed full of features and functions to suit AEC firms. To help you decide which wide-format printer will best suit your needs and budget, you need to look at several features, models, and brands.

Large-format printers are largely classified by features like:

• Print media width: 24" to over 60"
• Paper size: A0 (33.1 x 46.8 inches), A1 (23.4 x 33.1 inches), B0, B0+, and so on
• Sheet-fed or roll-fed
• Type of inks including dye-based inks, pigment-based inks, or both
• Printing technology, which is usually inkjet, but it can also be a flatbed or drum plotter

As an AEC professional, you probably want the best A0 plotter that can print CAD and architectural drawings quickly, accurately, affordably, and on a wide range of paper sizes. Here are some of the things you need to consider when choosing an A0 plotter for AEC firms.

Top-notch security is non-negotiable when choosing an A0 plotter in the Philippines. You may not know it, but printers are a prime target for cybercriminals. When you're regularly printing architectural drawings, blueprints, and other potentially sensitive drawings, protecting your organisation and your clients should be a priority.

A good plotter should have inbuilt security features such as user authentication (PIN, password, or biometrics), a secure network connection, and a secure boot process. The latter ensures that even if someone plants malicious code in the printer, it will always reboot from a clean version of its software.

Also, whitelisting ensures that only authorised devices, files, and software interact with the printer before automatically triggering a restart. The printer can recognise trusted devices from their digital signatures to verify authenticity.

A0 Plotter Printer Price and Operational Costs in the Philippines

When you have found an A0 plotter that checks all your boxes, the final question is whether the overhead A0 plotter printer price and operational costs fall within your budget. Plotters can be expensive, and firms in the Philippines, and trying to stretch their dollars may find premium plotters a hard investment to justify.

However, for a device that you trust to serve you reliably for five, ten, or fifteen years, the best A0 plotter is worth more than its price tags. More than that, you should consider how much it will cost you to operate the printer in terms of paper, ink, energy, and maintenance costs.

It always pays to conduct a [cost-benefit analysis of different printer models] (https://largeformat.hp.com/ph/blog/is-buying-a-printer-worth-it-understanding-the-roi-on-your-plotter-printer). Then you can choose one that gives you the best value for your money. Ideally, you should be able to install data tracking and reporting software to oversee your firm's printing activity so that you can monitor your spending per week, per month, or per quarter.

There are many reasons why the printers under HP DesignJet in Philippines are perfectly suited to printing architectural drawings, including:

• High-quality drawings with up to 0.01% line accuracy (31% more than competitors)
• Up to 65% bigger colour gamut based on internal tests for more vivid drawings
• One-click printing thanks to HP's Click software that works with PDF, JPEG, TIFF, DWF, and HP-GL/2 files
• Fast printing: The Designjet T650 36" printer model delivers a print speed of up to 25 sec/page on A1; 82 A1 prints per hour
• Prep-to-print times up to 102% faster compared to other brands, based on in-house testing
• Advanced security features are embedded, making HP DesignJet printers some of the world's most secure.
• Automatic sheet feeding, cutting, and collating, allowing you to handle different sizes of printing jobs remotely with our HP Mobile Printing app

Depending on the model you choose, you will be able to enjoy these and many other features. A0 plotter printer prices can vary considerably, from about 57,700 PHP for the low-end models to ten times more for the biggest, high-end plotters.

For example, the HP DesignJet wireless plotter printer is one of our best and biggest printers for large A0 printing jobs. Despite its comparably small physical footprint and elegant finish, the T950 features advanced functionality and is one of our fastest, most secure, and most capable large-format printers. You can pick it up for a little over 221,900 INR, but prices can vary.

The HP DesignJet T650 is also a large-format wireless printer perfect for A0 printing. It features sheet feed, roll feed, an automatic feeder, and automatic cutter functionality, among other features. You can get the HP T650 for about 111,110 PHP, but costs can vary.

Finding the best A0 plotter printer for your firm can be overwhelming. Even among the top-rated HP printers in the Philippines, there are many options to choose from, all of which are designed to meet the needs and price points of different AEC users. If you need some help finding the right plotter for A0 prints, contact us today to discuss your printing needs with our experts.