When you have a drawing or a series of drawings, sending them to someone else involves more than just sending the DWG files. What about the external references (Xrefs), images, underlays (PDF) and ...
AutoCAD can print. And AutoCAD can plot. Is there a difference? Nowadays, there isn’t; the two terms are used interchangeably. AutoCAD makes it easy because you can select either Print or Plot by ...