Part 4. How Digital Print-making Works
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“I never have taken a picture I’ve intended. They’re always better or worse.” | ||
| --Diane Arbus | ||
Some 20 years ago, the state of the art in computer-generated graphics was a table-filling device called a plotter. It was a wonder to behold. A mechanical arm moved to one of several ink-filled pens lined up on one side of the plotter’s broad, flat bed. Servos clamped the tip of the arm shut about the pen, pulled the pen from its holder, and whined and growled as they pushed the arm back and forth over a sheet of paper where it drew with the boldness and certainty of an artist who knows exactly what he wants ...
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