HP Plotter

[Tony Duell]

> 
> >> 1016 into 8388607 is 8256.50... 12 into 8256.5 is 688.
> >> 688 feet? I'm missing something here. It did say plotter-units,
> >> not user = units.
> 
> > Yes, I get that too. Sounds far too large. Maybe that's the limits
> > of the internal control electronics (that is, the plotter will accept
> > vaules that large without giving an error), even though they are
> > phyiscially ridiculous.
> 
> Don't forget continuous roll plotters can plot images that are only
> physically limited  by the media length, (I can't remember if the

True, but this limit is for both axes, and the thing is not nearly 700 
feet wide :-). Maybe you can flip the coordinates round, or maybe it was 
simpler to have the same limits for both axes.

One thing I've only just noticed. The limit is (of course) 2^23-1. At 
least it's not a totally random number.

-tony