Looking for plot data files

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Fri Aug 22 07:21:00 2003

At 01:25 PM 8/22/03 +0200, you wrote:
>Joe wrote:
>> FWIW I used to have a HP 7550 serial plotter connected to my PC. Windows
>> 3.1 even had a printer driver for it. I could create text documents using
>> MS Word and even highlight areas in it IN VARIOUS COLORS and then "print"
>> it on the plotter. It was amazing to watch it write all the text. It would
>> even switch pens automaticly to write the various colors of text. You
>> couldn't use it for graphics with areas of solid colors but for line
>> drawings, including text, it was fine.
>
>Yes, watching a plotter draw a complicated drawing with text etc would
>be an interesting exhibition element.

  What's really interesting is to shrink the font size in the document and
watch it draw those TINY little letters! It's AMAZING how accurate and
repeatable the HP plotters are. FWIW I used to make all kinds of tiny
labels with a RS CGP-115 printer-plotter (before I could afford HP.) Some
of the letters were so small that they were barely readable.

   I would have kept the HP plotter if it didn't take up so darned much
room! The 7550 is a great plotter. It will handle up to 17" paper, has 8
colored pens and loads and feeds paper automaticly. Around here they're
throwing them out everywhere. I've seen literally hundreds of them in scrap
piles.
   
   Joe


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> -- hbp
Received on Fri Aug 22 2003 - 07:21:00 BST