This is really cool! I sent you an (hopefully) uplifting message for the week’s end. I know I shouldn’t but I really want to buy a receipt printer now!
I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer
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#12I have a clockworkPi dev console which has the built-in printer, and it has always been a 'quaint' accessory, but lately I have been looking at it with glee and wondering what strange and fruitful things I could do with it .. the first is of course a zine, for which it is the perfect printing device .. just carry it with me, print out this months issue, stable the whole sizzle together and duct-tape it in some random loo somewhere, as deserves all good zine format ..
So, yeah, there could also be a window of opportunity by which other readers of the zine could send their own message to be included in the distribution channel (i.e. the bog roll) and things could propagate.
Well, I guess the point is, that suddenly I think that receipt printers are really the only printer I want to deal with, ultimately. I've gotta stock up on rolls.
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#13His printer prolly blowing up right now.
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#14I love all of the HN receipt printer posts, keep them coming please. There is something delightful in this analog experience. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... (if you build yourself, source non-phenol [made without BPA/BPS] thermal paper rolls)
Yes, the use case of receipt printers is really intriguing .. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45698598) .. I find myself wondering what other simple micro-printing things might be worth the effort. The offline nature, the anonymity of the reader - this makes it an appealing media, suddenly, in the storm of digital life.
In my case, I will probably try to use my receipt printer as a zine production line. The nature of the format inspires some great article writing ..
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#15I love all of the HN receipt printer posts, keep them coming please. There is something delightful in this analog experience. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... (if you build yourself, source non-phenol [made without BPA/BPS] thermal paper rolls)
Yes, the use case of receipt printers is really intriguing .. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45698598 ) .. I find myself wondering what other simple micro-printing things might be worth the effort. The offline nature, the anonymity of the reader - this makes it an appealing media, suddenly, in the storm of digital life. In my case, I will probably try to use my receipt printer as a zine production line. The n…
Something to note is the impermanence of the final product, as thermal paper does not have longevity (only ~1 year). I have not found a similar solution (printer + media with a similar form factor) where the print lasts longer, so open to suggestions for such use cases. I suppose in the short term, including a QR code in the print job that links to a perma/deep link online might work from a publishing perspective for bookmarking purposes.
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#16Anyone know where you can buy the wall map shown on the page?
It looks like this one from National Geographic: https://www.natgeomaps.com/re-world-decorator
That is a good map. So many recognizable names. Not that I'd recognize many, but those which I've searched for, they were present.
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#17I wonder if the author is aware of the health effects of handling thermal paper. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5453537/
I suspect the author, like nearly all of us here will get more exposure to BPA from handling supermarket (etc.) receipts than from this gimmick.
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#18Wasn't there someone who had printers connected to the internet and a live video stream of the printers printing the messages?
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#19I wonder if the author is aware of the health effects of handling thermal paper. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5453537/
I suspect the author, like nearly all of us here will get more exposure to BPA from handling supermarket (etc.) receipts than from this gimmick.
I typically decline those.
Thermal paper was widely used for fax machines and portable printers years back as well.
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#20I wonder if the author is aware of the health effects of handling thermal paper. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5453537/
BPA/BPS-free thermal paper exists; both chemicals are banned in the EU.