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Uh, no. Here is Canon's page on the machines in question: https://cpp.canon/products-technologies/large-format-plotter... See how they are called plotters?

They currently use Radiant Fusing technology: https://www.tavco.net/articles/bid/57020/see-the-advantages-...

"Toner does not bleed." I know but I was describing the needs not that toner bleeds. I have worked in printing plan sets and the old way for color was ink jet usually the HP 5000 series. The industry moved to the colorwave because the ink jet prints would bleed when wet.

Yes, the colorwave uses toner but I was told it was in a wax medium. The toner balls certainly felt like wax if you handled them...

Seems like you are being a tad pedantic and not entirely correct...



Canon pages has it in the title "plotters AND printers".

Plotter is a pen moving over paper drawing continuous lines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotter


If it understands a plotter pen-based language like HPGL, I consider it a plotter even if the actual print mechanism is an inkjet.

I say this as someone with a Draftmaster II in the spare bedroom...


It's been many years since I've ran plan sets, so my memory is a bit fuzzy, but we would occasionally get old school plot files. The Canon RIP that controlled the plotter would covert them automatically.


Well, we called them plotters when printing plan sets...


You could have called them "cars" or "planes" or whatever. This does not change the definition of word "plotter" ;)

edit: well, when i think about it, it does change definition of word if everyone starts calling plotters "cars", but there has to be a majority.


https://cpp.canon/products/plotwave-series/

"Get great looking technical documents with the black and white plotters"

The B&W machines are plotters. The color machines are printers and I don't see anything pen based at all...




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