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 Great Refurbished Plotters 
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CAD Supplies has had the good fortune over the last few months of selling a LOT of equipment. With this new equipment comes trade-ins, and lots of them! We have ended up with some pretty nice plotters. Brochure links are provided below (in bold) where applicable.
GEI 2900: Plots, Scans and Copies at 4 D's per minute. Loaded with controller, hard drive, network card and 2 roll unit. This is modern technology selling today for $18,000 new. This 18 month old plotter is only $10,000.
HP Designjet 5500 (Q1253V): 60" UV Plotter-Still under WARRANTY! Designed to produce high volume banners and graphic output. This is the best production inkjet plotter on the market. 60" is perfect for all over sized output. $10,000.
HP Designjet 1050C (C6074B): 36" Production cad plotter. Utilizes bulk ink system and up to 300' rolls. Plots a D size print in 1 to 1.5 minutes. This is the answer to your bottlenecks at the plotter. Comes complete with maximum memory and a network card. CS2 three (3) year warranty is included -- buy with peace of mind. $6000.
Scanner IS200: This is a BRAND NEW Scanner -- a special from our Distributor 42" wide color scanner includes all necessary software and stand. This is a production scanner designed to scan cad documents for design or archival needs. Regularly sells for $9995 -- on special for $7000.
OCE 9400 -- Two plotters to choose from. The printer only unit plots at 4 D’s size prints per minute. The other model has a scanner to make copies of your originals. These plotters were built like tanks and can still perform well in a production environment. Plotter only $1500. Plotter with scanner $4000.
"Classic HP Designjets" -- We have a dozen of the original Designjets that started everything off: HP 750C, HP450C, HP650C & even some DJ600's. These are inexpensive, dependable plotters ranging from $500 to $2000. Perfect for the home or low production environment.
If you have a need to upgrade your current equipment, or to get a starter plotter, please call or stop by to check out these great deals!
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Spring Break --
What a Concept
The idea (Other than the young's search for debauchery) of Spring Break is for everyone to take a week off to recharge. The practice (or HOPE) is to have a slow week to catch up on things before the spring rush. The reality is everyone is doing the same thing and it turns into another busy week -- with the kids at home as well! Oh well, at least the kids have fun and it's the beginning of March Madness for the rest of us. LET THE POOLS BEGIN!!!
On the business side, we have completed our Roland Service training for all of our Techs. We have sold our first Roland and the ink and media sales are really jumping!!! We have also added an excellent new product line of 10 mil Satin & Gloss. Photographers using the Epson 10 mil will be VERY pleased with this product. Our photobase will NOT require you to color correct.
Don't want you to think we forgot about the CAD side ... the old bread & butter. We appreciate the job Bill Milburn is doing so much that we hired his son Ben to be one of our delivery drivers. Never say nepotism is dead in a small business!
We here at CAD Supplies Specialty, Inc. are preparing for a BIG announcement. If we pull it off, it will be the biggest thing we have ever done. If we don't, I'll never speak of it again. Stay tuned ... I hope.
For now, get back to work and good luck with your brackets -- GO HORNS.
J Christopher Epstein
President
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New Fine Art and
Photographic Products
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CAD Supplies is constantly searching for the finest products for you to bring to your customers. We have partnered with new manufactures like Bulldog Products and Mitsubishi Imaging Products Inc. and are very excited to introduce these new products lines to you.
Bulldog Products is a manufacturer that focuses on the needs of the digital fine art community. We have been chosen as the newest dealer and will provide their products to the businesses across Texas. They provide us with our 20mil water resistant poly-cotton canvas, liquid UV protective coatings and a wide assortment of fine art papers.
Mitsubishi Imaging Products provides us with products that are widely used by photographers and wide format digital reproduction businesses across the world. All of our products are 100% compatible with all ink sets, including Epson UltraChrome. Mitsubishi has been a leader in the development of high-end inkjet coatings, including the original development of microporous technology. They have a line of 10mil premium luster and gloss photo papers that have been specially formulated for use in the Epson printers.
You can rest assured that you are always getting the best products available to the printing, prepress and to the display graphics market. Please use the following links to view their respective product specification brochures:
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The Kamrath Collection and Usonian Architecture
The Alexander Architectural Archive, a part of the University of Texas Architectural Library in Austin, recently acquired a collection of materials belonging to Houston architect and Frank Lloyd Wright devotee Karl Kamrath (1911 – 1988). The collection includes business papers, project records, correspondence, original architectural design drawings, photographs and prints. It provides an insight to his work, much of whose modernist designs honor Wright. Some of his award winning projects include the Kamrath residence of 1939, the M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute and the Contemporary Art Association in Houston. Kamrath was among the first Texas architects to follow a modernist approach to design for which he received national acclaim. Kamrath met Wright in 1945 and immediately became an advocate of Wright's Usonian architectural style.
It was Frank Lloyd Wright that began the Usonian architectural movement. In the 1930's, Wright developed Broadacre City, a four by four mile city whose spaciousness would contrast to the cramped industrial city. As a significant aspect of Broadacre City, Wright suggested that the name of the country be changed from the United States of America to Usonia and that Usonians should be provided Usonian houses designed through his principals of organic architecture.
The Usonian houses would relate to nature unimpeded by a foundation, front porch, downspouts, protruding chimney or distracting shrubbery. Surrounded by ample space, they would open up to the elements in contrast to the traditional colonial homes in the industrial cities. The materials of the Usonian house were to be nature's own: wood, stone, or baked clay bricks, along with glass curtain walls and casement windows. The home's interior was a spacious design with an open arrangement of its living room wing, the elimination of a separate dining room and the direct relation of the kitchen to the eating area. The house also had no garage, instead Wright added a separate structure that he coined the "carport." The Usonian house was meant to introduce a new, modern standard of form following function in home building and was the forerunner of the ranch style house of post World War II America. One of Wright's sons, Frank Lloyd Wright Jr., known as Lloyd Wright, was also a notable architect in Los Angeles. Lloyd Wright's son, (and Wright's grandson) Eric Lloyd Wright, is currently an architect in Malibu, California where he has a practice of mostly residences, but also fine civic and commercial buildings. Another son and architect, John Lloyd Wright, invented Lincoln Logs in 1918, and practiced extensively in the San Diego area. The Oscar-winning actress Anne Baxter was his granddaughter.
The Kamrath collection is projected to be available for use by patrons in August. You can learn more about Kamrath and the School of Architecture's Alexander Architectural Archive by visiting www.lib.utexas.edu/apl/aaa/.
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