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Plotters are awesome.
Like a printer, but with pens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotter
Wait shit I just use one as a printer for bigass drawings. I didn’t realize it used a pen
Most modern "plotters" are just bigass printers. The word used to only mean pen-based vector-drawing machines, but the overlapping use in architechture and engineering meant that as cheap inkjets supplanted the pen plotters they co-opted the name.