For whit inks how about uv printers?
For plotters, just get a pen with UV ink. Is a UV printer something more fancy?
So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork?
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#22Printers using CMYK isn't strictly true, right? Aren't you able to choose the ink colors when getting prints professionally made?
Yes, giclee printers typically have ten or more inks, and Risograph printers offer a wider but limited set of options.
"gicleé" is just a neologism that means "I will charge my customers more to recoup the capital cost of this large inkjet printer" and doesn't really have any inherent meaning as to the number of inks.
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#23I love plotter art and have dabbled a bit myself. The really fun part is how pen-on-paper is not completely reliable or a perfect line. You get a little texture if the pen skips. You can use watercolor pens that bleed. You can get crazy with something like Copic markers on Yupo paper so the whole thing stays wet and smears for minutes. It's part of the art. This bit from the article made me laugh ruefully though: "it…
A lot of it comes down to which pens you happen to have - I’ve had some success with Sakura gelly rolls for white, and also more recently have been enjoying sharpie creative acrylic markers which has a moderately opaque white ink. I’ve also had some really frustrating experiences with some other pens and instruments!
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#24Great article. I’ve only ever came across plotters used for tech drawings cad cam archtecture but i hadnt considered them applied to artistic output. Well done makes me want one now.
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#25I have a really cheap one that seems to apply uneven pressure across the bed. Has anyone worked with any sort of spring loaded holder that could help that sort of problem?
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#26I have a really cheap one that seems to apply uneven pressure across the bed. Has anyone worked with any sort of spring loaded holder that could help that sort of problem?
I’m having the same issue. Which model do you have?
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cricuts (and similar cutters, and multi-mode tools like the Xtool M1 and Bambu Lab H2D) have pen attachments
Yes. But no geek should be getting a Cricut when the Silhouette machines exist and are not so locked down and cloud encumbered. ETA: I guess a true maths geek nerd artist would probably want something more modular and larger anyway, but the Silhouette machines are varied, interesting, support a pretty well documented protocol (GPGL, a variant of/alternative to HPGL I think) and are supported in Inkscape and Python.
Seconded. My Silhouette is great. I even emailed them and received a copy of the GPGL docs one time. It wasn't full on support, but they were willing to give me a start.
The first thing I programmed was having it draw a hilbert curve and it worked great!
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#28I used to have an Epson Hi-80 plotter someone gifted me. Somebody else gifted it to themselves, so I never had a chance to play with it. But it had a centronics interface and could be set to emulate an Epson RX-80 dor matric printer. Never considered it for printing text, but why couldn't it with Epson emulation?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. But no geek should be getting a Cricut when the Silhouette machines exist and are not so locked down and cloud encumbered. ETA: I guess a true maths geek nerd artist would probably want something more modular and larger anyway, but the Silhouette machines are varied, interesting, support a pretty well documented protocol (GPGL, a variant of/alternative to HPGL I think) and are supported in Inkscape and Python.
Seconded. My Silhouette is great. I even emailed them and received a copy of the GPGL docs one time. It wasn't full on support, but they were willing to give me a start. The first thing I programmed was having it draw a hilbert curve and it worked great!
Ooh, did you do a blog article about it perhaps? I think I read it, if so.
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#30I always thought of plotters as legacy tech, but considering the variety of marking tools you can attach to the head, I'm wondering if I should get one. Does anyone know of an inexpensive plotter you can buy or build?
You could find a Silhouette Portrait 2 on eBay pretty cheaply. It has a reasonable range of tools, python and inkscape support and a reasonable, documented protocol.