Roland Pen Plotters

[p38arover]

Clean32's thread on old systems reminded me that I have two Roland DXY1100 pen plotters in my electronics workshop. I haven't used them in years.

I wonder if there's any use for them?

[dmdigital]

There's a name I haven't heard in years. Roland were about the best around for quite some time.

[EchiDna]

I'm sure I've read of them being used as the basis of vinyl lettering (sticker) cutters...

[sam_d]

Old pen plotter were far more fun to watch than the big inkjet plotters we have these days :)

[peter5111]

You can get get blades and holders to suit most pen plotter. I have been seriously considering it for my HP 7585. About the only thing stopping me is the cost of consumables while getting the hang of things. Oh, and I need to fix the I/O card, serial buffers got fried and HP-IB is an absolute bugger to get working in XP.