Plotting devices are items of hardware that have generally been available only to the sophisticated few. The Calcomp 936 drum plotter at Syracuse University is probably typical. In order to access the plotter through the standard software, the user had to be a fairly competent Fortran programmer and had to learn to think and work in terms of fundamental drum and pen movements.The approach taken to make plotter abilities more accessible will be described in this paper. Topics to be discussed include the development of a number of software packages, the writing of an integrated set of documents and the use of non-credit mini courses.