The “Version” field will automatically fill in with your model # and firmware version, etc.
This tool is also available in our download area. Now a newer program has reached me, Joost Zwijnenburg has published a tool called JoyPlot, which makes you want to use the old plotter again. On his homepage Frank Horn gives an insight into his portfolio of that time. Here the plotter tools of Frank Horn are especially mentioned. There were also applications in the homebrew area. If this was too complicated for you, you could use Sony's own consumer apps Creative Greetings and Homewriter to integrate ready-made graphics into greeting cards and design them individually.
Manual colours could be assigned to the plotter pens to achieve best possible results.Įven today it is still fun to control the plotter with these programs and to amaze the audience. Almost vector-oriented work was possible, files could be exchanged between the applications and the printer program could control either the dot matrix printer or the plotter.
Also a chat with the owner, who is full of expert knowledge, is fun and invites to buy.įrom Sony there was a threesome with the Creative Graphics, the Graphic Master and the Print Master Cartridge that left nothing to be desired. The replacement refills are offered at a moderate price as a color mixture or five black pens at moderate prices, only shipping and customs costs make these pins expensive.Ī visit to Koda's homepage is definitely worth it.
The American Atari veteran Bradley Koda has been running a mail-order service since the early eighties, in which all wishes of the Atari 8-bit disciples can be fulfilled until today, including supplies for the popular MSX plotter.
We also discovered plotters from Sharp and some professional printers in the medical field.Įspecially with the Atari 1020 there is a four-color plotter for which you can still buy refills today. In the eighties it was still a real alternative to the dot-matrix printer as output device, but unfortunately, most of these obscure devices got dusty in the attic due to a lack of pens.įortunately, the MSX companies Sony and Toshiba were not the only ones using the pens installed. Many of us still stock one of the famous Sony PRN-C41 pen plotters or similar models.