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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Plotter Information

From: anachrocomputer <anachrocomputer@...>
Date: 2011-02-06

--- On Sun, 6/2/11, Henry Liu <henryjliu@...> wrote:
> From: Henry Liu <henryjliu@...>
> Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Plotter Information
> To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, 6 February, 2011, 21:04

> As others have mentioned, plotters are made to go at one
> speed and you can't
> really slow them down. 

This is not correct. There is a command in HPGL, "VS", that sets
pen velocity. The Roland plotters certainly support it (I have the
DXY-990 and use VS to get better lines with poor pens).

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John Honniball