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Hitachi EX8000-7 — Dark Series · White — Portrait

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Hitachi EX8000-7 Blueprint Wall Art

$99 CAD

Open production · Made after your order

Free shipping — Canada only

A hand-plotted technical blueprint, drawn stroke by stroke in real ink.

  • ✓Made-to-order
  • ✓Free shipping — Canada only
  • ✓14-day returns

We'll hand your exact text to the operator before plotting — 40 characters max.

Secure checkout via Stripe. Your piece is plotted after you order.

A technical plan of the Hitachi EX8000-7, drawn line by line in pen on 250gsm paper, at 11 x 17 in. A physical tip presses into the paper and lays down real ink. On the back, a serial number and date, plotted in UV ink in the same pass as the drawing.

The EX8000-7's silhouette exists in file form everywhere. What doesn't exist everywhere is a single copy you can point to and say who drew it, where, on what day, under what number.

The Hitachi EX8000-7 is the largest excavator in Hitachi's EX-7 mining line, built to move rock at a scale few machines can match — a 43.0 m³ bucket and an 827-tonne operating weight, powered by twin 1,450 kW Cummins engines. Configurable as either a front shovel or a backhoe, it can reach 18.8 meters and dig 4.43 meters deep, moving material fast enough to keep a fleet of haul trucks running continuously in the pit.

At a Glance

  • ◆Largest excavator in EX-7 line
  • ◆Twin 1,450 kW Cummins engines
  • ◆827-tonne operating weight
  • ◆18.8-meter maximum digging reach
  • ◆43.0 m³ bucket capacity
  • ◆Shovel or backhoe configuration

Each piece is physically plotted by the studio's precision robot in Québec City, using Stabilo® Fineliners and Sakura® Gelly Roll inks on 250 gsm (120 lb) stock — stroke by stroke, never printed. A physical tip presses into the paper and lays down real ink. The result is a tactile, hand-plotted finish — never printed.

Specifications

codeink@robot:~$ ./specs --piece hitachi-ex8000-7

> FORMAT: Tabloid Standard [11" x 17"]

> INK SYSTEM: Stabilo® Fineliner / Sakura® Gelly Roll

> SUBSTRATE: 250gsm High-Density Stock [120lb]

> EXECUTION: Precision Vector Plotting

> PRODUCTION: Open · plotted after you order

> ORIGIN: Québec City, Canada

What the robot does, what a person does

The robot

  • ◆runs the file
  • ◆traces the line
  • ◆lays down ink
  • ◆repeats without tiring

A person

  • ◆picks the machine
  • ◆designs the linework
  • ◆decides which lines disappear
  • ◆sets pressure, speed, pen height
  • ◆watches the plot start to end
  • ◆signs, numbers, packs

Drawn by a robot. Designed by a person.

Included

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Production timelapse included — every order · no extra cost

Watch your piece being plotted, line by line, by the studio's robot. A personal timelapse of your production is sent with every order — to share, or to keep as a record of how your piece came to be.

Hidden signature

The CodeInk signature glowing under UV light on the back of a plotted piece

Real footage — an early production piece, shown under blacklight.

A signature only UV light reveals

On the back of every piece, in the same pass as the drawing, we plot a signature invisible under normal light — codeink.art, the piece's name and serial number, the year, and Québec. Shine a blacklight on it and it glows.

“A machine that moves 43 cubic meters of rock in one bite is hard to picture at any normal scale. Tracing its outline by hand, at a size that actually fits on a wall, is one way of making something that big hold still long enough to look at.”

— Carlos, CodeInk.art, Québec

Open production, no duplicates

Each plot is made after you order, one at a time. The pen wears slightly with every hour of use, ink density shifts, and no two lines close at exactly the same point — nothing is corrected or hidden.

PERFECTLY imperfect.

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codeink@robot:~$ ./faq --list▌

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