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Re:Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of... by quercusa on Saturday October 16, 2021 @02:28PM (#28890172)
I don't think I've ever seen an inkjet plotter in action. Does the paper go through a single pass? I was always fascinated by pen plotters, especially when drawing diagonal lines or changing pens.
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Re:Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of... by ChuckMcM on Saturday October 16, 2021 @03:29PM (#28890703)
Yes it is single pass, this particular model is an HP750C+. I had a wide format pen plotter before it and it would send the paper back and forth which was pretty mesmerizing but it required a lot of maintenance on the paper handling system so that the paper wouldn't slip.

The HP inkjet "plotter" works by rasterizing the plot in the host computer's memory and then sending strips of raster to the plotter. The dot resolution of the print head (replaceable, but not part of the ink system) matches the 0.7mm resolution of the pen plotters it replaced.

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Re:Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of... by bondarchuk on Saturday October 16, 2021 @02:42PM (#28890286)
It's called a plotter but it's really just a large inkjet printer these days.
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