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There was a REALLY cool project by the design firm Berg in the UK about ~13 years ago. Cute little thermal printer with online services that allowed you to have scheduled printouts of things like weather reports, horoscopes, etc. And... oh my goodness, I was looking for pictures of it and it turns out some kind person decided to put work in on having a way to do onprem services for it! [Check it out here]( https://no…
I know someone that this would be perfect for, but sadly too niche to have survived. It's a neat idea being able to get little "tickets" for various daily tasks for those that do better with those types of things compared to using a digital calendar
Note: no idea how it has evolved over the years but I’m sure “something something app” sums it up
I wonder if the author is aware of the health effects of handling thermal paper. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5453537/
> be me > live in city > breathe vehicle exhaust and tire dust everyday > drink alcohol > drive to my desk job > live on ultra processed food > salt and sugar for a treat > better not touch this piece of paper - for my health > open another Monster energy drink (tm). I can sleep when I’m dead.
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I did too but the printers were still dot matrix with ink ribbons then.
I rarely see thermal printers at grocery checkouts. Almost all that I see are ink.
Fun fact: when Apple first opened retail stores, they printed receipts on big Lexmark laser printers, 8.5x11, on VERY nice paper, like resume paper, it was absurd how nice and thick the paper was. It was preprinted with return policies etc on the back (and maybe a color Apple on the front?) It only lasted a few years like that and they eventually got cheap thermal printers installed.
If you do this be sure to buy BPA free receipt paper Handling receipt paper is what turned out to be the cause of the high BPA numbers when boba tea was tested https://x.com/natfriedman/status/1899641377002025252
I did that once. Spammers found it within 15 minutes.
Were you getting random text? Or actual targeted spam? For some reason I find it really funny to potentially be getting printed out adverts for shady boner pills or singles near you.
Originally planned to use a proper teleprinter, except mine is designed to sit in the the cramped racks of missile silos, so it has a rather obnoxious fan in it. It's also fully electronic and uses a dot matrix mechanism rather than something more fun. It's only redeeming quality is the VFD for message composition.
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I really have fallen for impermanent art. I display slide/color positive film on my windows. Yup they will fade and that’s totally ok.
Huh, that's very interesting. I've always considered Art to be timeless, bc it is, all of it. Davinci did a lot of cool stuff but the Mona Lisa made him the most famous person and I really don't see that changing. I have a painting hanging over my head rn whose artist died in the 1680s - the painting is over 100 years older than the Declaration of Independence and was brought over here on a ship with sails that took…
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I rarely see thermal printers at grocery checkouts. Almost all that I see are ink.
What country is this? I haven’t seen a dot matrix printer at a store in a decade. Fun fact: when Apple first opened retail stores, they printed receipts on big Lexmark laser printers, 8.5x11, on VERY nice paper, like resume paper, it was absurd how nice and thick the paper was. It was preprinted with return policies etc on the back (and maybe a color Apple on the front?) It only lasted a few years like that and they…
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I rarely see thermal printers at grocery checkouts. Almost all that I see are ink.
What country is this? I haven’t seen a dot matrix printer at a store in a decade. Fun fact: when Apple first opened retail stores, they printed receipts on big Lexmark laser printers, 8.5x11, on VERY nice paper, like resume paper, it was absurd how nice and thick the paper was. It was preprinted with return policies etc on the back (and maybe a color Apple on the front?) It only lasted a few years like that and they…