Show HN: Creating Land-Use Maps with an HP 7475A Plotter

Great writeup! Much of my plotting experience is a similar journey of hooking a bunch of rando utilities and file formats together with python. Plotters are really fun and can motivate some really interesting generative artwork.<p>Be sure to check out the #plottertwitter hashtag for inspiration, and I&#x27;ve aggregated some resources in an `awesome-plotters` repo as well: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;beardicus&#x2F;awesome-plotters" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;beardicus&#x2F;awesome-plotters</a>

I used to work at the local theme park and often enjoyed looking at the plen-plotter produced maps of the ride construction diagrams and whatnot.<p>Why aren&#x27;t there any low cost (sub USD700) pen plotters available today? Were they just always super expensive and are now only cheap because they are outmoded?<p>I know Roland makes large format printers etc. but those are oodles of money and so will almost never be bought by non-professionals&#x2F;enthusiasts. It just seems like we lost the ability to make &#x27;good enough&#x27; large format drawings without resorting to sign shops.

If you like pen plotting, i strongly recommend checking these drawings and the video that comes with it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.michaelfogleman.com&#x2F;plotter&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.michaelfogleman.com&#x2F;plotter&#x2F;</a>