For term searches and specialty glossaries, please try the new GBK glossariesEnglish to Swedish translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Computers: Hardware
Additional field(s): Architecture, Engineering (general) | | English term or phrase: plotter | Definition from bluedogink.com :
A device that draws pictures on paper based on commands from a computer. Plotters differ from printers in that they draw lines using a pen. As a result, they can produce continuous lines, whereas printers can only simulate lines by printing a closely spaced series of dots. Multicolor plotters use different-colored pens to draw different colors.
Example sentence(s): - Once the schematics for the image are complete, the computer downloads the coordinates to the plotter, which interprets the code and calculates the most efficient path for the pen and paper. eHow, Inc.
- Pen plotters work by moving a pen across the surface of a piece of paper, meaning that plotters are confined to line art, and are incapable of producing rasterized graphics like other printers. It is possible to draw complex line art designs and text, but pen plotters are considerably slower, owing to the pen’s mechanical movements. richcolorprinters.com
- Plotters are used primarily in technical drawing and CAD applications, where they have the advantage of working on very large paper sizes while maintaining high resolution. reference.com
|
| Glossary-building KudoZ
This question was created by:
This question is closed
| plotter | Definition:
En plotter är en slags skrivare som skriver ut vektorgrafik från en dator med hjälp av pennor. Plottrar skriver ut genom att föra en penna över ett papper, alternativt för den pennan i sidled och papperet i höjdled, för att på så sätt åstadkomma en utskrift. |
| Selected response from:
  L. Karlsson
Finland
| Grading comment | 4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer |
| | |
| Summary of translations provided | | 5 +2 | plotter | |
| Discussion entries: 0 |
|---|
Automatic update in 00:
|
4 hrs confidence:  peer agreement (net): +2
| | | | X Sign in to your ProZ.com account... | | | | |
| KudoZ™ translation helpThe KudoZ network provides a framework for translators and others to assist each other with translations or explanations of terms and short phrases. See also: Search millions of term translations  |
The translation workplace 
