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by mkl 1061 days ago
If the plotter is big enough to hold the whole piece of paper (or move the paper through on its own) there is no registration to worry about, and flatbed and large-format plotters do that.

Flatbed ones are like this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/anachrocomputer/5183771083, https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/control-vintage-roland-pen-...

Large format ones are mostly used for vinyl cutting nowadays, but they look like something like this: https://www.signmaster.co.uk/hardware_item/graphtec-ce7000-s...

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Right, that's (the vinyl cutter variety) not wildly different than the Cricut (which I mentioned before, and can also pen plot)

I guess I'm thinking larger than 17" and the two flatbed ones you linked would suffer from the same problem (except that the first probably has no way to do larger than its bed)