Flatbed X-Y Plotter?

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:29:56PM -0400, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:
>> This is a long shot, but anyway...
>>
>> If anyone has a used Roland or HP flatbed X-Y plotter, one which uses BPIB
>> (IEEE-488) or RS232 control from a host computer, I'm in the market.
> 
> Hmm, I haven't seen a flatbed roland since highschool. :)
> 
>> I need a machine where the drawing surface is fixed. Many of the modern
>> ones move the paper as one axis, and this won't work in this application.
>> We hope to modify the plotter to use as a small pick-place robot.
> 
> The _modern_ ones?  As far as the world is concerned, plotters in
> general died out around a decade ago.  My farher still thinks this
> sucks, and continues to use his calcomp for all his large drawings.
> Large inkjets are nice (and expensive) and all, but they don't match the
> line quality of a pen plotter.

My cousin's husband uses a flat bed plotter, to cut plastic sheets for
making signs.
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