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Uh, no. Here is Canon's page on the machines in question: https://cpp.canon/products-technologies/large-format-plotters/ https://cpp.canon/products-technologies

Uh, no. Here is Canon's page on the machines in question: https://cpp.canon/products-technologies/large-format-plotters/ https://cpp.canon/products-technologies/large-format-plotter... See how they are called plotters? They currently use Radiant Fusing technology: https://www.tavco.net/articles/bid/57020/see-the-advantages-of-oc-radiant-fusing-technology-0ce-plotter https://www.tavco.net/articles/bid/57020/see-the-advantages-... "Toner does not bleed." I know but I was describing the needs not that toner bleeds. I have worked in printing plan sets and the old way for color was ink jet usually the HP 5000 series. The industry moved to the colorwave because the ink jet prints would bleed when wet. Yes, the colorwave uses toner but I was told it was in a wax medium. The toner balls certainly felt like wax if you handled them... Seems like you are being a tad pedantic and not entirely correct...

vincnetas 4y ago
Canon pages has it in the title "plotters AND printers". Plotter is a pen moving over paper drawing continuous lines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotter
- BashiBazouk 4y ago
  Well, we called them plotters when printing plan sets...
  - vincnetas 4y ago
    You could have called them "cars" or "planes" or whatever. This does not change the definition of word "plotter" ;) edit: well, when i think about it, it does change definition of word if everyone starts calling plotters "cars", but there has to be a majority.
    - BashiBazouk 4y ago
      https://cpp.canon/products/plotwave-series/ https://cpp.canon/products/plotwave-series/ "Get great looking technical documents with the black and white plotters" The B&W machines are plotters. The color machines are printers and I don't see anything pen based at all...
- myself248 4y ago
  If it understands a plotter pen-based language like HPGL, I consider it a plotter even if the actual print mechanism is an inkjet. I say this as someone with a Draftmaster II in the spare bedroom...
  - BashiBazouk 4y ago
    It's been many years since I've ran plan sets, so my memory is a bit fuzzy, but we would occasionally get old school plot files. The Canon RIP that controlled the plotter would covert them automatically.

vincnetas 4y ago

Canon pages has it in the title "plotters AND printers". Plotter is a pen moving over paper drawing continuous lines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotter

BashiBazouk 4y ago
Well, we called them plotters when printing plan sets...
- vincnetas 4y ago
  You could have called them "cars" or "planes" or whatever. This does not change the definition of word "plotter" ;) edit: well, when i think about it, it does change definition of word if everyone starts calling plotters "cars", but there has to be a majority.
  - BashiBazouk 4y ago
    https://cpp.canon/products/plotwave-series/ https://cpp.canon/products/plotwave-series/ "Get great looking technical documents with the black and white plotters" The B&W machines are plotters. The color machines are printers and I don't see anything pen based at all...
myself248 4y ago
If it understands a plotter pen-based language like HPGL, I consider it a plotter even if the actual print mechanism is an inkjet. I say this as someone with a Draftmaster II in the spare bedroom...
- BashiBazouk 4y ago
  It's been many years since I've ran plan sets, so my memory is a bit fuzzy, but we would occasionally get old school plot files. The Canon RIP that controlled the plotter would covert them automatically.