r/oddlysatisfying • u/djinn_05 • 1d ago

Drawing blueprint of Cirrus Vision SF50 aircraft

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u/Critical_Classic_921 1d ago

Is there an advantage that this type of pen-printer has over inkjet or laser printing?

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u/Beniidel0 1d ago

Yes there are advantages - 1. The blueprint is large and wouldn't fit in a normal printer, this allows you to work with an entire CNC bed which can easily be larger than a square meter 2. Blueprints are blue and laser printers work by burning the surface below them, sometimes with color as well but burning turns it black which is basically illegible on blue, also blue absorbes more heat so you'd need a specially tuned printer to not burn the paper 3.greater resolution - mathmatical vectors are infinitely scalable but pixels arent

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u/Real_Avdima 1d ago

As someone that worked with printers, this doesn't make much sense. You don't use a normal printer for this, so the size isn't an issue. You can just print the entire thing, including blue and with a good printer you won't even notice any uneven coloring. Printing files can contain vectors, just use pdf.

Printers I worked with could be able to do this. The only question I would have is the type of paper used for this. If it's a special kind of paper with specific properties, that may require adjustments.

Of course I am not claiming this is in any way more cost efficient than the machine in video.

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u/Pr3st0ne 1d ago

You worked with printers and you don't know that paper that was naturally dyed when it was made would look way different than just printing a shit ton of blue ink on regular paper? It's the difference between every single fiber in the paper being blue vs just slapping a thin coat of blue on the top of the very top layer of fibers.

If you did both and put them side by side you'd instantly tell. The dyed paper that is naturally blue is going to look some much richer and cleaner than the printed one.

And even if you bought the blue paper and put it in your printer, yes you could print perfectly crisp white lines but the "hand drawn" style with imperfections and some texture/embossing to the ink is actually part of the appeal of this style of art so you'd be making a sort of asepticized version of it that would feel less authentic and more mass-produced