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Chapter 15 Printing a Drawing

With today’s equipment, there is no difference between printing and plotting. Printing used to refer to smaller-format printers, and plotting referred to pen plotters, most of which were designed for plotting large sheets. But the terms are now used interchangeably. Pen plotters were replaced by large-format inkjet or laser plotters that have a few additional settings not commonly found on standard printing devices. Otherwise, as far as the Autodesk^® AutoCAD^® software is concerned, the differences between plotters and laser, inkjet, or electrostatic printers are minimal. In this book, printing and plotting have the same meaning.

Although you may have a variety of small-format and large-format plotters attached ...