What type of motor is suitable for a plotter type device?

Hello! :-) It's been a while.

I got the idea of hacking an old inkjet color printer and turning it
into a flat bed. I can probably recycle the motors already in the
device, but let say that I just want to use the printer head and
completely rebuild the rest of the system.

What would be a suitable motor (e.g. stepper) to control the movement
of the printhead?

I was thinking of giving it an x,y,and z movement instead of just a 1-
dimensional movement.

Thanks!

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