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Need a quick copy of something, and no copier in sight? Just take a picture of it with your digital camera, pop the SD card into the Porta-Plotter, select the picture number on the text only screen, stick any kind of paper in the adjustable tray and a ink pen or pencil in the pen slot, and press "Plot".
Great for forgery, too!
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A "plotter" isn't a copier, you have to tell it how to draw the figure. That being said, the world needs more (cheap) plotters: bitmaps, bah! |
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Luckily there is a lot of open source code for vectorizing bitmaps. |
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What magic is used for the plotter to know what data is to be vectorized/rendered and what data isn't? |
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How is this better than any of the modern photo printers (many of which will print photos by "docking" the camera to them)? |
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//How is this better than any of the modern photo printers?//
Well, a plotter can just be a small base, jointed arm and pen... or :) a base like a miniature donut with the pen stuck through the centre; 3 magnetically controlled, rubber-coated ball-bearings inset on the bottom scurry it 'round the paper. |
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//What magic is used?//
No magic here, it just vectorizes everything in the picture (after thresholding the picture to monochrome). It's up to you to take a good picture. |
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//How is this better than any of the modern photo printers?// |
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It's cheaper and more portable. All you need is a pen and paper rather than 4 kinds of expensive ink and special photo paper. |
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The mechanics are simpler. Instead of 4 print heads and a paper feeder, all it needs is a paper tray and a pen arm. |
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//all it needs is a paper tray and a pen arm//
how about a clipboard with the mechanism normally hidden under the clip |
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Yeah that would work, although I wouldn't bother with hiding the mechanism. |
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Some jerk boned this while I wasn't looking :( |
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probably being boned while you are not looking is better! |
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apologies, I have been downloading too many russell brand podcasts! |
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please may I say that I still worship dear Russell, it wos all the awfuk Jonathan Woss's fault... he was the one that mentioned on Sach's message service that RB had f**k'd the satanic slut... |
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should I link for american HBers? |
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//All you need is a pen and paper rather than 4 kinds of
expensive ink and special photo paper.// |
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Which one runs the vectorizing program the pen or the
paper? |
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The pen and paper are supplies, the computer in the pen arm base runs the vectorizing program. |
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