Hello to everyone. I am from Suresh Steel Centre.I want to know what the difference is between printing and plotting. Can someone give me a solution? I'd appreciate it.
I agree with Bob and Mary, In today's world they really are the same thing.
It used to be that printing was what you did with text documents sending them to dot matrix printers with the typewriter type ribbons. Plotting was what you did from graphics files sending them to pen plotters.
A lot of companies used plotting add-on's: InterPlot (IPlot), now called ProjectWise PrintOrganizer, Zeh Plotting System (ZPS), Beyers Plot Station, etc. further enhancing the "Plot" terminology.
Rod WingSenior Systems Analyst
Fun fact as Sheldon Cooper ( from Big Bang Theory) would say..
Its not exactly the same thing is when you talk to mapping or GIS people or GIS type functions, plotting points on a map doesn't always mean your printing it to paper or pdf it means mapping the points by their coordinates in a design plane using a CGS or relative to 0,0 by cartesian coordinates from an ascii table or text file .. I think its an old throwback to the idea of a plotting table .. basically a light box with a paper map over it and clear film or tracing paper over the top to protect the map and you would manually plot points with pencil or markers by their eastings and northings... I did a lot of those when I was in the military 1977-84 .. plotting enemy position sightings , Artillery emplacements, mine fields aswell as other temporary man made obstacles...we also had little wooden blocks for the horizontal plot table that we moved around the map to represent formations of troops like a company or a battalion with the NATO symbology for size and type ie Tanks or Artillery etc good old days before PC's
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