Talk:Electrostatic plotter

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Bit vague[edit]

So... the wires transfer a charge, what, to the paper? I don't suppose the paper keeps the charge. So are the wires on one side of the paper, the toner on the other, and the toner is sucked up as soon as the charge is sent to the wire ends? Is it only the paper that moves? The print "head" is the full width, and contains hundreds or thousands of wires?

I hate to point out that that's actually a raster process, not a vector one, so this isn't actually a plotter at all, it's a printer. Is that an accepted thing among people who use and make these?

How are the hundreds of wires charged? Surely not through hundreds of transistors in parallel?

This is a vague article and misses out on the crucial explanation of the mechanism, how ink ends up on paper in the pattern you want. This is quite an important characteristic when you're explaining a printer.

92.40.249.161 (talk) 22:39, 26 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]