Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard for desktop bitmapped graphics. Macromedia Freehand and Adobe Illustrator are very popular programs for creating and editing vector graphics. Photoshop supports a variety of file formats. The plotter should eventually be able to print from Adobe Pagemaker 6.5, a popular desktop publishing application. This is still under development.
Lower resolutions result in low quality results.
Higher resolutions do not produce better results, but do cause large files, which are hard to manage. Please flatten Photoshop files before submitting them for printing, i.e. reduce them to one layer. In addition to reducing file size, this will also ensure that fonts are rendered properly. For instructions on how to do this, please consult Photoshop's online help feature. The plotter takes a 36-inch wide roll of paper.