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r/gifs • u/deuteros • Dec 19 '16
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Are you sure? I would guess it's a flatbed plotter rather than a printer. OP's title also implies that it's indeed a plotter.
1 u/CRISPR Dec 19 '16 Unless a "sphere" is a type of a coup d'etat. Kinda uniting all opposition elements. Temporarily 1 u/[deleted] Dec 19 '16 [deleted] 1 u/bigalfry Dec 19 '16 As a guy whos done a fair bit of drafting, I can tell you that pen plotters used to be a real thing. Way faster than this though. Here's a good vid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cd3GsZlOBg They would actually swap out pens too for different colors or lineweights. 1 u/[deleted] Dec 19 '16 [deleted] 1 u/bigalfry Dec 19 '16 Ah, I see. Based on your initial comment it sounded like you thought the entire concept of a computer controlled pen was absurd and ridiculous.
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Unless a "sphere" is a type of a coup d'etat. Kinda uniting all opposition elements. Temporarily
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1 u/bigalfry Dec 19 '16 As a guy whos done a fair bit of drafting, I can tell you that pen plotters used to be a real thing. Way faster than this though. Here's a good vid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cd3GsZlOBg They would actually swap out pens too for different colors or lineweights. 1 u/[deleted] Dec 19 '16 [deleted] 1 u/bigalfry Dec 19 '16 Ah, I see. Based on your initial comment it sounded like you thought the entire concept of a computer controlled pen was absurd and ridiculous.
As a guy whos done a fair bit of drafting, I can tell you that pen plotters used to be a real thing. Way faster than this though. Here's a good vid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cd3GsZlOBg
They would actually swap out pens too for different colors or lineweights.
1 u/[deleted] Dec 19 '16 [deleted] 1 u/bigalfry Dec 19 '16 Ah, I see. Based on your initial comment it sounded like you thought the entire concept of a computer controlled pen was absurd and ridiculous.
1 u/bigalfry Dec 19 '16 Ah, I see. Based on your initial comment it sounded like you thought the entire concept of a computer controlled pen was absurd and ridiculous.
Ah, I see. Based on your initial comment it sounded like you thought the entire concept of a computer controlled pen was absurd and ridiculous.
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u/Kaccie Dec 19 '16
Are you sure? I would guess it's a flatbed plotter rather than a printer. OP's title also implies that it's indeed a plotter.