[mystified5016]

Plotters are really only good at drawing vector plots. Graphs, schematics, line drawing kind of stuff. Plotters are very bad at text.

I'd wager that something like 99% of all pages printed annually are exclusively text and/or raster images (photos).

Very close to nobody has a use for a plotter, and traditional printers can do 99.99% of the jobs a plotter can do. There's simply not one reason for the average consumer to use a plotter. If you're in an industry where you do actually need a plotter, they're available at industrial prices.

Plotters are cool, but they were only useful when the only other option was monochrome dot matrix. Even then they were extremely limited and not widely used.

If plotters can't compete with dot matrix there's no point even discussing whether they can compete with inkjet or laser.