It has 6 pages. Is that succinct enough?
Also, as dfranks says, it was developed for plotters, so he didn’t think of pixels.
“Pen plotters print by moving a pen or other instrument across the surface of a piece of paper. This means that plotters are vector graphics devices, rather than raster graphics as with other printers. Pen plotters can draw complex line art, including text, but do so slowly because of the mechanical movement of the pens. They are often incapable of efficiently creating a solid region of color, but can hatch an area by drawing a number of close, regular lines.”
dfranks•5mo ago
So, pen plotters effectively have "pixels" as defined by the stepper or encoder positions of the motors.