What do you do when you have an old printer, a portable CD player, and a handful of other electronics sitting around? Turn it into a plotter, of course.The frame of the plotter was taken from a ye … ...

At the premium end of HP’s comprehensive line of large format inkjet plotters sits HP’s largest wide-format printer. The HP DesignJet T650 is a 36-inch plotter for printing up to A1-sized ...

The SVG plotter has been created using an old Epsom inkjet printer frame together with two stepper motors, motor driver circuitry as well as a CD player laser head moving mechanism.

Pen plotters, with their slow speeds and complex mechanisms became redundant with the advances in printing technologies. Inkjet technology was the ideal replacement, with a small self-contained ...

As resolution doesn’t have to be *that* high, I think you could best use an inkjet head as a kind of plotter pen. So, take the inkjet head, and rig it in such a way that it draws a dot.

If we're talking about a pen plotter, I couldn't say, though I don't think it would look that good. If it's inkjet plotters, then the results can vary from decent to great, depending on the plotter.

The First Drum Plotter In 1959, the CalComp Model 565 was the world's first drum plotter. It had one pen and could handle media up to 11" wide. (Image courtesy of CalComp, Inc.) ...