Plotters have a wide variety of applications, since they are capable of printing large scale images and can be used with many different types of media. Typical uses include architectural drawings, maps, large signs or POP adverts in shops and supermarkets, art gallery prints or large photographs etc.
Media options include: vinyl, canvas, fabric, card, paper, film, adhesive paper, coated paper, billboard paper etc and the media can either be sheet fed or roll fed. Common widths of media purchased are typically 24", 36", 42", 60" wide. Inks are also variable and are supplied as dye based inks, pigment based inks, and dye or pigment based UV inks for outdoor printing, to prevent fading.
HP is the biggest manufacturer and has the largest market share both in the UK and Worldwide. We specialise in HP Plotters, better known as Designjets, because they are well built, reliable, offer excellent value for money including providing savings in terms of cost of ownership when compared to competitors and they get the job done! Our competitors often offer a wider range of large format printers - citing Canon as their favourite because customers need to upgrade every 3 years.
A lucrative sales opportunity for the reseller - however we just want the best quality for our customers. Once you purchase a HP Designjet you'll keep it for years or more. You may also hear the term 'large format printers' or 'wide format printers' in the industry to describe these machines. In essence, there are technical printers for the likes of Architects, Engineers and other CAD users and photographic quality printers for the likes of Graphic Artists and Photographers.
After the A, HP continued designing new plotters based on the original A design until During this time, the only way for a business to get high resolution graphic output from computers was through pen plotters.
Pen plotters provided a variation of resolution between 72 dpi and dpi and line resolution equivalent to dpi. By , HP started to introduce different style plotters which would carry a greater number of pens which were capped to stop them from drying together with improved reliabilty and roll feed capability. At the end of the s HP then introduced paper moving plotters to replace the old flatbed technology making the printers cheaper and smaller.
Inkjet technology was the ideal replacement, with a small self-contained print head that moves across the paper, allowing manufacturers to produce wide format plotters that can print on large paper sizes. Microchip and memory advances enable plotters to perform more processing onboard, allowing for faster printing at high resolutions, with high levels of accuracy.
Unlike pen plotters that can only print line art, one big advantage with inkjet technology is the ability to print photo quality graphics, increasing the versatility of the plotter. Gareth Downes-Powell has been writing since He has contributed to a number of U.
He has also worked as a technical editor on a number of titles for U. How Does a Plotter Printer Work? By Gareth Downes-Powell. What Are Thermal Printers Used for? Color Inkjet Vs. Regular inkjet or laser printers are fundamentally raster scan devices that print a single line on the given media at one time. However, plotters on the other hand are vector-based and they function by printing continuous lines from point to point.
You can use plotters in two ways: as a standalone gadget with its internal processor or as an external output device that you can connect to your computer. Once it's set up and there is something that needs to be printed, a set of commands from the host computer is sent to the plotter and the pens and carriage begin to move according to those commands. Based on what needs to be printed, the pens and carriage operate in unison.
For instance, when it comes to printing something that involves more than a single color, hundreds of pens that carry wide ranges and combinations of color are instructed to work in sync on the selected media.
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