Plotter

On December 20, 2009, someone (who?) donated a beautiful HP DraftMaster I pen plotter (HP P/N 7595A).

There's a Flickr set of somebody else's DraftMaster for reference.

Our plotter:

• appears to be in good physical condition
• comes with a pen carousel
• comes with one pen holder (holding a #2 pencil, nach)
• has a DB-25 that probably wants to speak HP-GL over RS-232

We need:

• service manuals
• pen holders
• paper
• software that emits HPGL
• a paper holder (probably a wire cage) to catch the print as it finishes

Documentation:

• Manuals and User Guides and product info, from HP museum.

HPGL Software:

• Inkscape, a vector drawing program, can export HPGL.
• Uniconvertor may be able to output HPGL.

Pens:

• draftingsteals.com
• wncsupply.com

Wikipedia: Plotter, HPGL

Program that seems to work:

IN;
SC0,40,0,40;
SP7;
PU0,0;
PD100,0,100,100,0,100,0,0;
PU50,50;
CI25;

Settings:

• Your program needs to use DOS line endings (\r\n)
• Serial is 9600 8N1 on the PC side, plugged into the COMPUTER/MODEM port via a null modem cable (maybe)
• SERIAL:
  • DATAFLOW: REMOTE, STANDALONE
  • PARITY: 1
  • BAUD: 9600
  • HARDWIRE: OFF