What is the difference between printers and plotters?

Answer 1

Printers and plotters are both output devices used to produce hard copies of digital documents, but they differ in their mechanisms and purposes. Printers are generally used for producing text and graphics on paper using inkjet or laser technology, while plotters are designed for producing large-scale drawings or designs on paper or other materials using pens or markers. Plotters are typically used in engineering, architecture, and design industries where precision and accuracy are crucial, while printers are more commonly used for everyday printing needs.

Answer 2

With the first model plotters, the plotter basically used a pen nib to draw maps ect, using co ordinate based software and generally printed on rolls of paper.

Where as a printer, prints on sheets of paper and geneally prints graphical or text based documents. however nowadays, plotters, can be widely referred to as large format.

Answer 3

A plotter has a pen (or a collections of pens) and can draw large pictures - the paper is usually fed in a roll. Laser printer print using laser technology and usually print only one page at a time.

Answer 4

printer is used for printing a image or a document ora photo we wish.

copier means that one person gave me a image , we think that its goodd so we wish that we also should have one ,so we put a printer machine and take a copies

Answer 5

Digitizer:It is an scanner with a little difference from other scanners, as the scanners can scan the images in raster format and the digitizer can convert the images in a meaningful format or data.it is an input device.

Plotters:A plotter is a output device.It is a large printer that generates high-quality documents by moving ink pens over the surface of a page.Plotters are Vector imaging devices.

Answer 6

plotters can be used to display graphical object and printters are uses to print hard copy of the texts.

Answer 7

A dot matrix printer uses 9 tiny pins in the print head to strike the paper and
form letters. Most graph plotters use a pin with ink, on an arm, to form a line
on a graph or chart.

Answer 8

Plotters plot a printer prints ?!!

Answer 9

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