What (who) is plotter - definition

COMPUTER OUTPUT DEVICE THAT DRAWS ON OR CUTS INTO PAPER OR OTHER MATERIALS BY MOVING A PEN OR KNIFE

X–Y plotter; Xy plotter; Vinyl sign cutter; Pen plotter; X-Y plotter; Cutting plotter; Plotter (printer); Flatbed plotter; Line plotter; Ink plotter; XY-writer; XY writer; X-Y-writer; X/Y-writer

plotter

<hardware> A device that uses one or more pens that can be raised, lowered and moved over the printing media to draw graphics or text. The heart of the plotter is the printer head assembly, consisting of a horizontal bar and, attached to it, the head assembly holding the pen in use. The pen can be positioned horizontally by moving the pen assembly along the bar. Vertical positioning is achieved by either moving the bar (stationary page plotter) or the paper (rolling page plotter). Combinations of horizontal and vertical movement are used to draw arbitrary lines and curves in a single action, in contrast to printers which usually scan horizontally across the page. Colour plots can be made by using more than one pen. Older plotters required a separate pen for each colour and the pens had to be changed by hand. Modern colour plotters usually use only four pens (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, see CMYK) and need no human intervention to change them. Monochromatic plotters have been largely phased out by {laser printers} except when large paper size is needed, e.g. in CAD. (1996-01-10)

Plotter

·noun One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer.

plotter

(plotters)

A plotter is a person who secretly plans with others to do something that is illegal or wrong, usually against a person or government.

Coup plotters tried to seize power in Moscow.

= conspirator

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A plotter is a person or instrument that marks the position of something such as a ship on a map or chart.

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Wikipedia

Plotter

A plotter is a machine that produces vector graphics drawings. Plotters draw lines on paper using a pen, or in some applications, use a knife to cut a material like vinyl or leather. In the latter case, they are sometimes known as a cutting plotter.

In the past, plotters were used in applications such as computer-aided design, as they were able to produce line drawings much faster and of a higher quality than contemporary conventional printers. Smaller desktop plotters were often used for business graphics. Printers with graphics capabilities took away some of the market by the early 1980s, and the introduction of laser printers in the mid-1980s largely eliminated the use of plotters from most roles.

Plotters retained a niche for producing very large drawings for many years, but have now largely been replaced by wide-format conventional printers. Cutting plotters remain in use in a number of industries.

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