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https://github.com/ValdikSS/printer-driver-funnyprint
I use it to print barcodes, and it's very handy compared to serious enterprise printers: it's lightweight, battery-powered, and works over Bluetooth.
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
this one time when i was young and dumb and into smoking weed, i remember running out of rolling paper so i rolled a joint using a supermarket receipt i had and smoked it this was like 20 years ago, still makes me shudder after i learned about the BPA stuff
I've fantasized about fax phone banks for artists to send things out periodically. The idea of a machine unexpectedly popping out a sheet of paper has gone from "this is all spam" to delightful again. Physical items in a physical space whereby you call a place and not a person. We've digitally moved from spaces to individuals and I think that's the main critique of the modern web: somehow networked ourselves but aban…
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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.
Worse: I worked in grocery stores for years as a cashier lol
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this one time when i was young and dumb and into smoking weed, i remember running out of rolling paper so i rolled a joint using a supermarket receipt i had and smoked it this was like 20 years ago, still makes me shudder after i learned about the BPA stuff
Fun fact, that extremely thin paper used in bibles is usually hemp paper.
Somebody did that back in the 1980s. They put a small printer into a phone that had the same form factor as a Western Electric model 500.[1] This connected to a PBX and printed "While you were out" slips. It was a real product, but did not catch on. Anyone remember that thing? I saw ads, but never one in person. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_500_telephone
I have a rotary phone, a voip adapter, and have been writing a local SIP server for another experiment. I am insanely tempted to replicate this.
I wonder if you can see what was sent by others
They’re being stored redundantly on a sqlite db. I’ll think about adding some kind of feed to the page if others are interested. I don’t know, I kind of like having a place for some people to anonymously vent (as more than a few have).
I have wanted to do experiments with a receipt printer hooked up to a Raspberry Pi, with some simple controls... but every time I look up the cost of the printer I balk. It's probably not fair, but I guess in my head it feels like they should be cheaper. Or at least the cost then makes me question how much time I'm really ready to put into stuff like debugging the printer drivers and putting together a case, etc etc.…
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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…
I 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…