Tip 1: What is the difference between plotter and printer?
Tip 1: What is the difference between plotter and printer?
Many have heard of the plotter, but do not represent,what it is. Only an engineer and designers will be able to tell with confidence, but an ordinary person will not understand unless he has dealt with him. So what's the difference between a plotter and a printer?
Plotter - a giant printer of design engineers
Plotter is a special kind of printer thatis designed specifically for large-format graphics printing. This large printer prints lines without tiny breaks, which is ideal for creating drawings of any size for engineering and architectural needs. Typically, plotters are quite massive in size due to their specificity. Therefore, they have large consumables, and, therefore, the costs are significant. Such printers are used only in factories and any institutions that can afford such costs, and also have the necessary space for this cumbersome but necessary equipment. The plotter is divided into two types: inkjet and laser. Usual paint is used in inkjet, and in laser - a powder special mixture. The installation uses special cartridges. Many think that plotters print a solid line. In fact, this is not so. The plotter simply draws the pixels so close that they create a single whole. This gives particular high accuracy. Also, colors are printed more clearly and better, which is great for large-format drawings.Where is the plotter used, and what are its advantages?
Engineers and architects for duty are alwaysuse a plotter to print their charts and charts. Because of its accuracy, it is ideal for this job. It is often used for printing large drawings, posters and signs. Thanks to the excellent accuracy and color reproduction, the plotter creates rich and clear drawings. The printer is not capable of large formats and high accuracy, unlike the plotter. This is their difference. If the printer is suitable for normal printing of medium-quality text and drawings, where exactly it is necessary to create a high-precision drawing, graph or drawing, the plotter comes into play and easily copes with the problem. Printing services on the plotter can also be found not in production, but in some printing company in the city, but such a press is not cheap. Therefore, most often there are ordered to print large-format advertising, announcements and posters marketing firms. Some plotters are installed in schools, if there is a need for it. The ordinary inhabitant does not have a square to accommodate this monster, neither money to buy and expenses, nor work that is worth printing in this way. Therefore, in an ordinary store, you rarely see this large-format printer on sale.Tip 2: What is a plotter?
Plotter called a widescreen device thatis intended for printing on a paper of large-format images, examples of which can be graphs or drawings. Otherwise, this device is called a plotter.
Instructions
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The principle of plotters and inkjet printersis the same. For drawing an image a special writing block is used, which is called a pen. Large-format printers are also called plotters, but this is not entirely true.
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Classification of plotters is carried out onthe following parameters: - the method of forming the drawing: raster, with arbitrary scanning; - the type of the drawing head: photographers, fountains, with a milling head, with a scribing head; - method of moving the media: drum, tablet, mixed.
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There are the following types of plotters: - flatbed and roll, - inkjet, pen and electrostatic - raster and vector.
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Tablet plotters differ in that the carrierin them fixed in a fixed manner. Fastening can be carried out on electrostatic, vacuum, mechanical basis. For use in flatbed printers, plain paper can be used. Its size is limited only by the size of the device itself.
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Plotter with moving carrierare divided into three categories: drum, friction and roll. In the drum-type plotter, a special rotating drum is used to secure the carrier. Friction plotters for moving media use rollers. Due to this, these plotters are substantially smaller than the drum type. Roll media are similar to friction media, but they use a special medium.
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The principle of operation of electrostatic plottersis as follows. The electrostatic head moves the dielectric paper. On the heads there are needles with negative voltage. Due to this, the paper is charged, after which the toner is sprayed, which is charged positively. As a result, a negative charge attracts positively charged toner particles.
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The main characteristics of plotters include drawing format, drawing speed, accuracy and resolution.
Tip 3: What is the larger format print?
Large format printing originallywas used only for advertising purposes, but is increasingly being used recently to decorate home interiors. Photographic image quality in combination with the use of environmentally friendly materials significantly expanded the scope of this technology.
Large format printing in advertising
For closed rooms printing can be performedon ordinary thick paper, it's all known posters or posters. In outdoor advertising paper is used only for the construction of city lights, under the glass of which it is not affected by weather conditions. It is manufactured in a special way and has the name of paper for interior lighting. For outdoor advertising products, printing is performed with special solvent paints that are well absorbed into the material and do not burn out. So make banners of special PVC fabric, banner mesh, self-adhesive film for display windows and bigboards. There is a special type of film for advertising on transport or to save part of the natural lighting of the rooms on the windows of which the gluing will be done. Perforated film allows up to 60% of light to penetrate the room, but the brightness and juiciness of the image does not decrease.Large-format printing in the interior
In contrast to promotional products, which are notrequires a high print resolution, as it is at a great distance from the viewer, interior printing is performed with a resolution of 720 to 1440 pixels per inch of surface and has an ideal image quality. Depending on its purpose, the materials listed above can be applied. Most often in the design of an apartment or commercial space, you can find widescreen wallpaper, printing on stretch ceilings, decoration of doors and window blinds.Tip 4: How to print a poster
Poster A poster is an image of anysize, printed on paper. They are used for advertising and personal purposes, for decorating the interior. Any picture that you liked, you can print in the form of a poster. To do this, you need any printer - a plotter or printer.
You will need
- - Plotter;
- - Printer;
- - roll paper or sheet of large format;
- - A4 paper;
- - glue;
- - a computer;
- - Special software.
Instructions
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For printing large images from A2up to A0, plotters are used - large-format printing devices. They are quite expensive, therefore they are almost never found in personal use. But if you want to make a beautiful poster on a single piece of large format paper, you can order it in the organization that provides such services. Usually, large-format plotters are installed in design, architectural workshops, printing shops. Many advertising firms also execute orders for printing images and large format schemes. Here you can choose a suitable quality paper, because its density can be different.
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If the integrity of a piece of paper is uncritical for you,on which the poster will be printed, then you can use for its manufacture a standard printer of standard A4 format. In this case, the image will have to be glued together. Of course, for this you will need special software. In the well-known graphic and vector editors: Photoshop, CorelDrow, Adobe Illustrator, you can set the print settings in the print settings, in which the image will be divided into rectangular fragments of the appropriate size and printed. You can even set the size of the fields for gluing yourself.
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But to use such an expensive and"Cumbersome" software is not available to all users. On the Internet, you can find free special programs, such as, for example, ProPoster. With its help, you can print on A4 size sheets an image of any size, up to 10 meters in length and width. The program can be useful not only to print a poster, with its help you can print a draft of drafts, schemes. The program supports all popular graphic formats, allows you to copy tables and graphics from Excel and Word.
Tip 5: How to print a drawing from AutoCAD
Today AutoCAD program is one of the leadingprograms in the field of creating drawings and 3D modeling. Its capabilities in this field are almost limitless. In it, you can create drawings of any complexity, starting with a primitive nut and ending with the most complicated mechanism. Often the result of any work is a drawing printed on paper of a certain format. So how do you correctly print a drawing in AutoCAD?
You will need
- AutoCAD and a functioning printer
Instructions
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Having already finished the drawing, click on the upper leftcorner button "MENU", starting with the ninth version of the program, it is indicated by a large, red "A". Then select the item "PRINT", a window with print parameters appears in front of us. The same window can be called by pressing the hot key "CTRL + P".
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In the paragraph "Printer / plotter" we find the name of your connected printer.
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In the paragraph "Format" we choose the format that suits us, whether it's A3, A4 or another, depending on the size of the drawing itself.
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In the paragraph "Printable area" we are offered a choicefrom several types of print area, they should be considered in more detail: Borders - when selecting this type, the program will maximize the size of the drawing for the selected sheet format. The frame - we manually select the area we need by using the mouse. Screen - with this type of printing the program will print the part of the drawing that is currently in the visible part of the screen.
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In the lower right corner of the options window, there is printarrow when you click on which will open additional settings. In them, you can adjust the orientation and quality of the drawing. Another important point: if your drawing uses lines of different thickness, then at the bottom of the working area should be the button "display lines in accordance with the weights."
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Finally, we press the button in the print settings window "APPLY TO LIST" and "OK"
