A nice trick: how to make Brother printers print files of HP-GL plotter commands. It may work with any PCL printer though.

https://scruss.com/blog/2025/04/09/plotter-stuff-on-that-brother-printer/

#hpgl #brother #plotter

That Brother laser printer you bought can also pretend it's a plotter

#plotter #printer #hpgl

https://scruss.com/blog/2025/04/09/plotter-stuff-on-that-brother-printer/

HP 9872C plots HPGL graphics from James Webb Space Telescope

On YouTube you can find a video showing how the picture was created.

https://youtu.be/5Tsjv24YYBw

#hpplotter #plotter #9872 #hp9872c #hpgl

Another plot from a NASA graphic. It's a Casini Spacecraft. I uploaded the full plot to YouTube.

https://youtu.be/mn27KIPLCOc?si=wiVwHd6jD5j0Ei4c

#hpgl #plotter #plot #hp9872

Jarred Glickstein | Portfolio - Pen Plotters
Another person with a Roland DXY-1150

#penplotter #plotter #plotterart #vintage #hardware #roland #dxy1150 #hpgl

SVG2HPGL #hpgl #svg2hpgl #penplotter

https://github.com/ithinkido/SVG-HPGL
https://ithinkido.github.io/SVG-HPGL/

I was gonna write some code on my #Swift #HPGL #GenerativeArt project, but I can’t decide which way to go with it and I lost all momentum in my brain.

Back to playing #NoMansSky

CX-6000 Pen Plotter Upgrade

[Terje Io] decided to breathe new life into an old pen plotter -- the CX6000 from C. Itoh, a Japanese company that made several printers for Apple in the 1980s. He keeps most of the framework, but the electronics get a major overhaul. The old motors are replaced, the controller and motor drivers are modernized using a Raspberry Pi Pico and stepper motor drivers. After tending to other auxiliary electronics like the control panel and limit switches, it's time to deal with the firmware.

Rather than reinvent the wheel, [Terje] sensibly built upon existing projects and refactored them for his application. G-Code processing is done by grblHAL, with an added mode to handle HPGL code. He modified the firmware from Motöri the Plotter project to parse HPGL, making his new CX6000+ bilingual.

We covered Motöri way back in 2009, and more recently we wrote about the Teensy Controller using grblHAL, one of the 32-bit big brothers of GRBL. Have you ever restored one of these old plotters? Or is it easier to just build your own these days?

#peripheralshacks #retrocomputing #citoh #grblhal #hpgl #penplotter