[NelsonMinar]

AxiDraw from Evil Mad Scientist was what a lot of us were buying a few years ago. He's now part of Bantam Tools and is making a thing called the NextDraw. Same design but better built and a lot more expensive. https://bantamtools.com/collections/bantam-tools-nextdraw

There's a world of cheaper unbranded Chinese plotters that folks are using that seem to work well. Quality does matter, you want something very precise and stable.

[pimlottc]

Looks like the Bantam Tools ones start at just under a thousand. How much were the AxiDraw units originally?

[NelsonMinar]

I paid $475 for an AxiDraw V3 (A4 size) in 2021. I'm not saying the new machines are bad value, they seem very nicely built. But it's definitely less of an impulse purchase at $1000.

[sleepybrett]

I think I paid a little over 700 for mine a few years back.