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Plotters are awesome.

Like a printer, but with pens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotter

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Or knives! Or inkjets! There are all kinds of bastards, I used to work with the knife variety (huge Roland thingamabobs) and also sell them.

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Thanks, I’ve never dealt with that before. But from what I’ve read, a regular printer would still make more sense for such a task.

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Benefits of a plotter in this case:

  • easier to align with the existing lines on the paper
  • the ink doesn’t look printed (depending on the pen; I would use a blue ball-pen to make text look more authentic)
  • there are pressure-marks left on the paper, you wouldn’t have these on regular printers
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And as I found out in this thread, you can also adjust the handwriting. That’s cool. But in the picture, the writing looks so artificial that the person could have used a normal printer.

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Wait shit I just use one as a printer for bigass drawings. I didn’t realize it used a pen

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Most modern “plotters” are just bigass printers. The word used to only mean pen-based vector-drawing machines, but the overlapping use in architechture and engineering meant that as cheap inkjets supplanted the pen plotters they co-opted the name.

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