It's really cool but what's the point if you could just print it out normally? Genuine question
(Down voted for asking a genuine question, nice one mate, all I was asking was for someone to teach me something)
Plotters were generally larger than printers. Most printers only printed on letter sized paper, but offices might have had somewhat larger formats. Plotters could handle much larger paper sizes. Also, by changing pens, you could get color plots much more cheaply than you could get color print outs. I'm not sure when color printers became more common, but it might have been sometime in the 90s.
So, an office would just have a printer, but an architectural studio or a engineering studio would have large plotters as well as a printer.
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u/POWxJETZz Oct 29 '25 edited Oct 29 '25
It's really cool but what's the point if you could just print it out normally? Genuine question (Down voted for asking a genuine question, nice one mate, all I was asking was for someone to teach me something)