vic user
Veteran Member
I thought I would pop this into a new thread:
CP/M user wrote:
Sounds neat. This reminds me, when did Plotters
go out? I always thought they were a valuable
piece of hardware, which are far superior to an
Inkjet printer, yet people are replacing them for
that.
>> Oh dear!
> I hope that is a good 'oh dear' about my robotic
> vic 20 hopes
Well yeah, I was thinking in terms of a Vic20 being
more than capable of doing something like that to
your latest IBM. It kinda goes back to what I said
about Plotters & Inkjet printers, as I feel a Plotter
would produce a more accurate image vs an Inkjet.
However, Inkjets do vary in quality, yet it doesn't
stop it from doing what it does which is spray the
colours onto the paper, which is why I felt that a
Plotter is superior. Any thoughts on that?
But just getting back to your Vic20, yeah that was
a good Oh dear hence the smiley!
Cheers,
CP/M User.
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It's funny that you mention plotters, because I work with large format printers, and for some crazy reason, most people at my work keep calling them plotters. Perhaps it is because they are big or something And yep, the printers are inkjet.
And we have many quality issues at work, in regards to exactly what you mentioned, in terms of how an inkjet gets the ink onto the paper. Also have UV fading issues as well.
Neat that you mention that plotters are more accurate, as one of our main criteria for producing products off of the printers, is image accuracy. (I am in charge of the Print On Demand shop at my work, where we produce nautical charts.)
I don't know why plotters are not popular anymore, or at least I don't see many around.
As for my vic 20 - robot thing, my first project I wish to tackle, is to hook up a digital thermometer to my vic 20 (I am assuming via RS232), and then have the vic record outside temperatures, on regular time intervals. I was thinking of using the vic's internal time counter.
Chris
CP/M user wrote:
Sounds neat. This reminds me, when did Plotters
go out? I always thought they were a valuable
piece of hardware, which are far superior to an
Inkjet printer, yet people are replacing them for
that.
>> Oh dear!
> I hope that is a good 'oh dear' about my robotic
> vic 20 hopes
Well yeah, I was thinking in terms of a Vic20 being
more than capable of doing something like that to
your latest IBM. It kinda goes back to what I said
about Plotters & Inkjet printers, as I feel a Plotter
would produce a more accurate image vs an Inkjet.
However, Inkjets do vary in quality, yet it doesn't
stop it from doing what it does which is spray the
colours onto the paper, which is why I felt that a
Plotter is superior. Any thoughts on that?
But just getting back to your Vic20, yeah that was
a good Oh dear hence the smiley!
Cheers,
CP/M User.
-----
It's funny that you mention plotters, because I work with large format printers, and for some crazy reason, most people at my work keep calling them plotters. Perhaps it is because they are big or something And yep, the printers are inkjet.
And we have many quality issues at work, in regards to exactly what you mentioned, in terms of how an inkjet gets the ink onto the paper. Also have UV fading issues as well.
Neat that you mention that plotters are more accurate, as one of our main criteria for producing products off of the printers, is image accuracy. (I am in charge of the Print On Demand shop at my work, where we produce nautical charts.)
I don't know why plotters are not popular anymore, or at least I don't see many around.
As for my vic 20 - robot thing, my first project I wish to tackle, is to hook up a digital thermometer to my vic 20 (I am assuming via RS232), and then have the vic record outside temperatures, on regular time intervals. I was thinking of using the vic's internal time counter.
Chris