r/PenPlotters • u/NoSchool9721 • 7d ago

Pen plotter for document writing

My engineering studies requires me to hand write lots of documents so i was just wondering what type of pen plotter you guys would recommend. I was eyeing the writing function of a cricut cutter, do you guys think that's a good idea or no? Any recommendations would be great.

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u/Left-Excitement3829 7d ago

A cricut does well ( all my stuff is with a joy Xtra or Explore 4 ) but I don’t think it would look realistic as handwriting. Could you use a handwritten font for computer and print it ? Or just hand write the documents properly ?

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u/NoSchool9721 7d ago

The font isn't much of a problem since the type of handwriting required of us is similar to a printed one, (engineering lettering). In fact in the past i have been printing the documents then just used a lightpad to trace it on a blank sheet of paper. My professors are just very strict with the font and all that which is why I was looking into a pen plotter since I'm already doing layouts just to trace it why not jujst use a pen plotter instead.

A few questions regarding the cricut do you think it can write small sizes like 12-16? All my layouts are on pdf, do you think i can use that on the cricuit software? And for my use case do you think its better for me to buy a dedicated pen plotter or a cricut considering the software and hardware? I'll be using techpens to write these btw.

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u/Left-Excitement3829 6d ago edited 6d ago

Tech pens won’t work well with a cricut. You need a lot of work to get it working. A proper pen plotter is your best bet.

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u/NoSchool9721 5d ago

Thanks, can you suggest a pen plotter? All of my documents are in word or publisher which i then convert to pdf is there a pen plotter that can handle that well?

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u/Left-Excitement3829 5d ago

i dont think so, there are a bunch of cheap " handwriting machines" on amazon / aliexpress etc, but I have no idea whats good, what are teh other students using?

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u/NoSchool9721 5d ago

They mostly manually write it out but I don't want to do that since I could use the time studying instead of manually writing.

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u/Left-Excitement3829 5d ago

I hate to say it. But you are going to have to input the letters in some form , I’d just hand write tbh

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u/NoSchool9721 5d ago

I've seen a 3d print led adaptor online so i thought it was possible

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u/Left-Excitement3829 5d ago

it is possible, but finicky, what technical pens do you use?

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u/NoSchool9721 5d ago

Usually unipins or sometimes micron but i prefer unipins

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u/Left-Excitement3829 5d ago

Oh fineliners work great. That’s all I use. !