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[–] DavidGA@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who will explain the concept of a plotter to you?

[–] Jay@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You?

[–] DavidGA@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Plotters are awesome.

Like a printer, but with pens.

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

[–] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] Jay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Oszilloraptor@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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
[–] Jay@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Oszilloraptor@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

You can plot anything.

I use it mostly to print drawings onto birthday cards.

(btw, I totally agree that OPs results are far from look handwritten; just wanted to stand in for some benefits of plotting in general. If I would try what op does I guess I would try things very differently)

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] amminadabz@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

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.