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I love pen plotters. When I worked with CAD we still had them. It was so much fun seeing it slowly working on a technical drawing. Laser printers are obviously

I love pen plotters. When I worked with CAD we still had them. It was so much fun seeing it slowly working on a technical drawing. Laser printers are obviously much better and faster but much less fun to watch.

dougmany 7y ago
Oh yeah. When it would change colors it would run over to the pen holder and pick up a new color. That was fun to watch.
- ficklepickle 7y ago
  That reminds me of the create-a-card machine that was in Hallmark stores in the 90's! I had forgotten about that. I remember watching in awe as it drew a Simpsons-themed card.
C1sc0cat 7y ago
Back in the day we used to use HP's biggest and badest Super A0 plotter for small print runs used to park it the computer room (to keep the temperature controlled) and let it run all nig