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Who will explain the concept of a plotter to you?
You?
Plotters are awesome.
Like a printer, but with pens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotter
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.
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.
Benefits of a plotter in this case:
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.
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)
Wait shit I just use one as a printer for bigass drawings. I didn’t realize it used a pen
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.