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1. What are the difference between a drum plotter, flatbed plotters and inkjet plotters.
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What's The Difference Between Flatbed and Drum Plotter Printers?
Whether you’re an architect designing CAD blueprints, a cartographer making maps, or a restaurant owner designing menus, a good plotter printer is essential for making a quality finished print. Though both flatbed plotter printers and drum plotter printers offer similar printing features favorable to many printing needs, each have their niches due to differing construction and printing methods. Drum plotter printers surpass flatbed plotter printers for certain printing jobs, and vice-versa.
The Main Difference Between a Drum and Flatbed Plotter
Flatbed plotters hold the paper still while the pen moves, and drum plotters roll paper over a cylinder.
Flatbed Plotters
Flatbed plotter printers have evolved over the years to provide a greater variety of printing jobs. The original flatbed plotter printers used refillable pens fastened to a mechanical arm. The pens dropped down onto a paper roll mounted flat and unrolled to form the drawing surface. The pens moved back and forth drawing the design. These older flatbed plotter printers only produced different colors in accordance with the number of pens they held. Old flatbed plotter printers were generally used for blueprints and mechanical designs not requiring numerous colors.