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To this day HP still sells "plotters". They are just mostly used for cutting but you can definitely put a pen in there. And they have an optical eye to read mar
by AlexanderDhoore 5y ago
To this day HP still sells "plotters". They are just mostly used for cutting but you can definitely put a pen in there. And they have an optical eye to read markers on the printed media.
See HP Latex cutter: https://www8.hp.com/us/en/printers/large-format/latex-plus-cutting.html https://www8.hp.com/us/en/printers/large-format/latex-plus-c...
EDIT Oh, and they still speak HP-GL!
- scruss 5y agoYou can still make many HP and compatible laser printers speak HP-GL (well, HP-GL/2) through some arcane PJL commands. Fun fact: HP-GL is equally compatible with metric and US customary measure as it uses 1/40 mm as its base unit. This just happens to be 1/1016 inches: not a tremendously useful integer factor, but every bit of integer goodness mattered back when peripherals were 8-bit.
- rbanffy 5y ago> Fun fact: HP-GL is equally compatible with metric and US customary measure as it uses 1/40 mm as its base unit. This just happens to be 1/1016 inches That’s a brilliant hack.
- Gibbon1 5y agoReminds me of a high precision delta-sigma ADC I saw that had nulls at 60 and 50 HZ.
- emmelaich 5y ago> This just happens to be The inch is defined as 2.54 cm, since 1959. You might know this, just thought I'd add this note.
- scruss 5y agoand you guys finally got rid of the US survey foot - the bane of this Canadian's existence when working on big civil jobs in the states. We'll get you guys using proper units afore long
- brtkdotse 5y agoThe HP Latex cutter is a rebranded Summa cutter. AFAIK HP doesn’t produce plotters/cutters anymore, they do however produce large format printers (which operate on a totally different paradigm)
- AlexanderDhoore 5y agoNote how I said "sells" ;)
- brtkdotse 5y agoOops, you’re right! :)