Amongst the array of plotters available, plotter cutting machines are a widely used, industry standard. Used to cut materials such as paper or vinyl, a cutting plotter is able to make precise and consistent cutting designs in large quantities. Because of this, cutting plotters (generally called die-cut machines) have been adopted by many home enthusiasts of paper crafts such as card making. Such tools allow desired card shapes to be cut out very precisely, and repeated perfectly identically. Like all plotting machines, a cutting plotter requires computer design software to function. The design software offers users the ability to create detailed, accurate designs as well as reproduce existing ones. Vinyl Cutters A vinyl cutter is...
Large format printers are professional pieces of printing equipment that can handle large, industry scale printing orders. With the ability to print hundreds of square feet in less than an hour, these printers use specialised inks to create crisp images. They can also print on many different medias, including banners, film, fabric and more. Large format printers typically print: Widths between 44 – 36 inches. Lengths of 59 – 300 feet. Speeds between 126 – 7900 square feet per hour Print Thicknesses of 19.7 -59 millimetres Resolutions between 600 x 600 to 2880 x 1440 dpi Models vary form feature rich, large scale printers to straight forward plotters. Features can include...
XY laser plotter drawing robots are used primarily to make highly accurate, computer drawings. These drawings are then used within the manufacturing industry as a scale illustration on which to work from. Laser plotters allow for fast drawings to be made. Working with a plotter such as this is more efficient than traditional manual methods. There are many drawing programs which can be used in tandem with the machine, all of which make the drawing process efficient and simple. These drawings can then be reproduced for industry use. XY laser plotters are operated as a robot that works on an X and Y axis. This robot is able to draw imagery as the arm moves vertically and...