Company:Graphtec Corporation

Short description: Japanese multinational technology company

Graphtec Corporation

Type	Kabushiki-gaisha (TYO: 6968)
Industry	Computer hardware
Founded	1949
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Dr. Watanabe (Founder)
Products	Plotters, scanners
Website	www.graphteccorp.com

MP1000 (1983)

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.

Products

Pen plotter

• WX4633, WX4638, WX4671, WX4675, WX4731
• MP1000

Cutting plotter

• Craft ROBO, Craft ROBO Pro
• CE 3000
• CE 5000

Driver

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"

External links

• Graphtec America, Inc.
• The GP-GL Command List (PDF)