• Scrof@sopuli.xyz
        185·
        1 år siden

        Or knives! Or inkjets! There are all kinds of bastards, I used to work with the knife variety (huge Roland thingamabobs) and also sell them.

      • Jay@sh.itjust.works
        74·
        1 år siden

        Thanks, I’ve never dealt with that before. But from what I’ve read, a regular printer would still make more sense for such a task.

        • Madlaine@feddit.de
          10·
          1 år siden

          Benefits of a plotter in this case:

          • easier to align with the existing lines on the paper
          • the ink doesn’t look printed (depending on the pen; I would use a blue ball-pen to make text look more authentic)
          • there are pressure-marks left on the paper, you wouldn’t have these on regular printers
          • Jay@sh.itjust.works
            15·
            1 år siden

            And as I found out in this thread, you can also adjust the handwriting. That’s cool. But in the picture, the writing looks so artificial that the person could have used a normal printer.

            • Madlaine@feddit.de
              3·
              1 år siden

              You can plot anything.

              I use it mostly to print drawings onto birthday cards.

              (btw, I totally agree that OPs results are far from look handwritten; just wanted to stand in for some benefits of plotting in general. If I would try what op does I guess I would try things very differently)

        • amminadabz@sh.itjust.works
          6·
          1 år siden

          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.