Newer electrostatic plotters are really large-format laser printers and focus light onto a charged drum using lasers or LEDs. See electrostatic. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

Sure, we see quite a few plotters and other motion machines ... You might ask; if you have a 3D printer, why you wouldn’t just mount a pen on it and call it a day? Well, you could do that ...

It’s why desktop 3D printers are such a powerful tool, and why this scalable plotter from the [Lost Projects ... If you’ve got some unusually large computer-controlled scribbling in mind ...

The plotter was the first output device to print graphics and large engineering drawings. Using different colored pens, it could draw in color long before color inkjet printers became viable.