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Commodore Color Printer Plotter 1520 (Mint Boxed)

February 6th, 2021 2 comments
Commodore Color Printer Plotter 1520 (Mint Boxed)

The Commodore 1520 is a printer/plotter made by Commodore and the printer mechanism made by Alps. The printer has a IEC interface and is a device that draws computer graphics on paper using fiber pens.

The advantage of this device compared to a printer is the good resolution and especially the precision. The second advantage was that these were the first color printers.The main disadvantage is the very low printing speed and that you could not print areas so well with plotters.

Plotters were primarily intended for technical drawings, as the typeface usually looked very scrawly.

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