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Graphtec Corporation

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Industry
  
Computer hardware

Products
  
Plotters, scanners

Founded
  
1949

Key people
  
Dr. Watanabe Founder

Website
  
www.graphteccorp.com

Headquarters
  
Tokyo


Type of business
  
Kabushiki-gaisha; (TYO: 6968)

Graphtec Corporation (TYO: 6968), formerly Watanabe Instruments, is a company for computer input and output devices in Japan. It has subsidiaries in the USA, Europe and Australia. Graphtec was established in 1949; their first plotter was released in 1961.

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Products

Pen plotter
  • WX4671, WX4675, WX4731
  • MP1000
  • Cutting plotter
  • Craft ROBO, Craft ROBO Pro
  • CE 5000
  • Driver

    The plotters use GP-GL (Graphtec Plotter Graphic Language) which is not compatible with HP-GL, see its EAGLE definition:

    References

    Graphtec Corporation Wikipedia