From Dust Till Dawn

How we started to learn the languages
of printers and plotters 📣🖨️✨

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🖨️ printing in organisations #1

The larger an entity is, the more complex
is its printing system and the less certain it is
that a print job will be done as intended.

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🖨️ printing in organisations #2

The more complex a printing system is,
the less configuration options are available for prints.

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PostScript for printers &
specific commands for dot matrix printers &
HPGL (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language) for pen plotters

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PostScript 📯📜

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BLUEBOOK, chapter 3, page 20

newpath
200 10 moveto        % x y
0 72 rlineto
72 0 rlineto
0 -72 rlineto
-72 0 rlineto
closepath
4 setlinewidth
stroke

showpage

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dot matrix printers

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$ echo "Hello World" > /dev/usb/lp0

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HPGL 🖊️🖨️

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IN; (Initialize)
SP PenNumber; (Select Pen)
PU x,y(,x,y...); (Pen Up)
PD x,y(,x,y...); (Pen Down)
LT PatternNumber(,PatternLength); (Line Type)
FT (model (,space (,angle))); (Fill Type)
RR x,y; (Fill Rectangle Relative)

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 1import random
 2
 3print("IN;")
 4print("SP1;")
 5for x in range(0,10000,1000):
 6    for y in range(0,10000,1000):
 7        ltype = random.randint(1,4)
 8        llength = random.randint(1,5)
 9        print("LT"+str(ltype)+","+str(llength)+";")
10        ftype = random.randint(3,4)
11        fspacing = random.randint(10,200)
12        fangle = random.randint(0,2)*45
13        print("FT"+str(ftype)+","+str(fspacing)+","+str(fangle)+";")
14        print("PU"+str(x)+","+str(y)+";")
15        print("RR1000,1000;")

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Intermezzo
The Adventures of the Pen Plotting Party

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RE:IMAGINATION ?

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Thank you :D

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