For a lightweight barebones plotter, though, it works well enough. If you dig building plotters, you might like to step up to something more laser-y in future. Video after the break.

Inkjet printers are cheap to buy, but expensive to run. Replacement cartridges can easily cost double the price of the hardware itself, leading many to decry the technology entirely. However, the ...

The plotter was the first output device to print graphics and large engineering drawings. Using different colored pens, it could draw in color long before color inkjet printers became viable.