Company type |
Kabushiki-gaisha ( TYO: 6968) |
---|---|
Industry | Computer hardware |
Founded | 1949 |
Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
Key people | Dr. Watanabe (Founder) |
Products | Plotters, scanners |
Website |
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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.
The plotters use Graphtec Plotter Graphic Language (GP-GL) which is not compatible with HP-GL, see its EAGLE definition:
[WX4671]
Type = PenPlotter
Long = "Watanabe WX4671 plotter"
Init = ""
Reset = "M0,0\n"
Width = 16
Height = 11
ResX = 254
ResY = 254
Move = "M%d,%d\n"
Draw = "D%d,%d\n"