Inkjet plotter

Japanese: インキジェットプロッター - いんきじぇっとぷろったー
Inkjet plotter

...In a computer, the device that takes in information from the outside is called an input device, and the device that takes out information to the outside is called an output device; these are collectively called input/output devices. Input/output devices are devices that convert between the information inside the computer and information such as characters and images that humans can read. In a broad sense, devices that connect computers to computer networks and various other devices are also a type of input/output device.
[Input/output principle]
All information that is represented in various forms outside the computer is represented inside the computer by encoding it as a string of 0s and 1s, that is, binary numbers.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "ink jet plotter" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…コンピューターにおいて,外部から情報を取り込む装置を入力装置,外部に情報を取り出す装置を出力装置といい,これらを合わせて入出力装置という。コンピューター内部の情報と人間に読める文字や画像などの情報とのあいだの変換をするものが入出力装置である。コンピューターとコンピューターネットワークや各種の機器とのあいだをつなぐものも,広い意味では入出力装置の一種である。
【入出力の原理】
コンピューター外部においてさまざまなかたちで表現された情報は,コンピューター内部ではすべて0,1からなる列つまり二進数に符号化して表現する。…

※「インキジェットプロッター」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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