A Roland DXY-1300 pen plotter drawing an image of video game and anime character Chun-Li.
Chun-Li was in the original version of Street Fighter II (produced by Capcom) as one of the game's eight playable characters and the first female character to appear. She was brought back in Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams. The particular drawing by qiqo featured here is based on her appearance in the animated version of the game, Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie, and the manga published in the 1990s by Masaomi Kanzaki.
The Roland DXY-1300 pen plotter is a popular computer printing device from the 1980's for printing vector graphics. It prints by moving a pen across the surface of a piece of paper, much like a human hand does. This means it is restricted to line art. To be able to draw all sorts of shapes the pen needs to be able to move across the paper on an X and Y axis. The Roland line of pen plotters have a specific design where the paper is fixed and the pen moves along both the X and Y axis in all directions. This is different from the HP line of plotters where the pen only moves along one axis and the paper along the other. The drawing pen is mounted on a carriage that moves back and forth. These smaller "home-use" plotters were popular for desktop business graphics and in engineering laboratories for technical drawings. Starting from the mid-1990's pen plotters were gradually replaced by high-resolution inkjet and laser printers. Surviving pen plotters have often been converted to venyl sign cutters.
