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      Or knives! Or inkjets! There are all kinds of bastards, I used to work with the knife variety (huge Roland thingamabobs) and also sell them.

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      Thanks, I’ve never dealt with that before. But from what I’ve read, a regular printer would still make more sense for such a task.

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        Benefits of a plotter in this case:

        • easier to align with the existing lines on the paper
        • the ink doesn’t look printed (depending on the pen; I would use a blue ball-pen to make text look more authentic)
        • there are pressure-marks left on the paper, you wouldn’t have these on regular printers
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          And as I found out in this thread, you can also adjust the handwriting. That’s cool. But in the picture, the writing looks so artificial that the person could have used a normal printer.

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            You can plot anything.

            I use it mostly to print drawings onto birthday cards.

            (btw, I totally agree that OPs results are far from look handwritten; just wanted to stand in for some benefits of plotting in general. If I would try what op does I guess I would try things very differently)

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        Most modern “plotters” are just bigass printers. The word used to only mean pen-based vector-drawing machines, but the overlapping use in architechture and engineering meant that as cheap inkjets supplanted the pen plotters they co-opted the name.