Fastest plotter

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• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 209 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-4485
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-4485(80)90080-9

✦ Synopsis

Fast colour

A four-colour dot-matrix printer/ plotter, with separate cartridge ribbons and print heads for each primary colour plus black, has been announced by Ramtek. The unit produces full colour or black and white hardcopy graphics on plain paper and complements Ramtek's colour graphics and display system product lines.

The Model 4100 is Z80 microprocessor controlled, can be switched quickly between graphics and alphanumerics and operates at approximately three times the speed of present colour impact printer/plotters, printing all colours in ~ single pass.

The 4100 prints in a subtractive process, light colours first, from a raster refresh graphics system. Current maximum resolution is 60 dots/ linear in, horizontal or vertical. Plotting speed in the full colour graphics mode averages 3min/page for 11 in forms.