#Thermal printer

[virtualboypsd]

nudes on tickets

[papashittycams]

I’m sick but now all hope is lost.

[blazkoshatchets]

For anyone interested: you can buy one of these thermal printers on most of the online shop fronts (like eBay), usually for less than 20$. They are mostly standardised to a paper 57 mm wide, which you can also get online for the cheap. It's eminently portable, and the battery lasts a surprising amount of time (at least for me). It prints best black&white pictures, but anything with good contrast works, and as you can see, even smaller text remains legible. So you can print agitprop at home and on the go, and if you are feeling really fancy (and have the spoons for that kind of thing), you can even assemble larger works out of fragments, because, again, the sticker paper is dirt cheap. For text, I use an app called Phonto which will provide you with all the tools to turn images to agitprop. It gives you a good amount of options for the text, and even lets you install additional fonts (not something I take for granted with mobile phone apps).

But even better, you can also print cute little stickers for your significant others.

[shirozen]

Unravel installation confusion

[tourmalinenoir]

I printed out new labels for my shop with art suggestions from Twitter and Instagram!! These labels will be on all orders going out so I hope y'all think they're cute ♥️♥️

Lot of Lancer suggestions this time around

[sil3ntm0thart]

I now have a tiny printer

[extinguishergirl]

Desire of everything I have lost

Original piece under cut

[horribililibrifax]

[1]

»The photon that traverses the optical glass and alters the halides of the film is not really a substance and it does not produce an impact«, Henri van Lier writes. »It carries energy, but has no mass. Indeed, we can also see this when after sunbathing we carry the marks of the bathing suit, transforming us into photograms. The weightlessness of photons endows their inscriptions with a striking weightlessness, almost an immateriality. Tanning is not a form of make-up.«

When it comes to printing, as you might expect, things get ›heavy‹: with a thermal printer, it’s easy to turn ›weightless inscriptions‹ into materialized, yet even more abstract patterns. Roughly speaking, these marvelous machines ›translate‹ light information into heat. By ›molding‹ or ›melting‹ the darker areas of the image out of the paper’s thermochromic coating, revealing the black hue, the parts of the film that were previously struck the least by photons become, of all things, the darkest and ›hottest‹ spots of the thermal print. At the same time, by reducing the information encoded in the film grain to a rather coarse grid, the printer stages a choreography of hot, dancing dark dots that both fuel and frustrate our inescapable desire to see things clearly.

[1] u. · Essen, 07–2023 [thermal print] [2] halftone cat 1 · Duisburg 05–2023 [thermal print] [3] schlehdorfer wolken · Oberbayern 06–2023 [thermal print] [4] pressure points · München 06–2023 [thermal print] [5] snowy owl · Essen 07–2023 [thermal print]

[swholli]

Bought my partner a thermal printer for Christmas to make stickers and print receipts and whatever; we immediately both thought: gameboy printer.

It looks even a little like a modern version of the gameboy printer. If I knew where mine was I’d pull it out for comparison, but anyway.

I decided the best way to bring this whole thing together was to actually take some pictures with gameboy camera and print them, so that’s what I did.

Emulating gameboy camera on my 3DS was extremely simple, and using some handy homebrew ftp software I could wirelessly transfer files over to my phone where the new printer connects over bluetooth. It’s essentially the gameboy link cable but with extra steps.

So now I have these photos from gameboy camera, all I had to do was pass it to the printer. Let me tell you, the feeling of absolute joy we shared at having printed a picture we took with gameboy camera for the first time in probably 20 years? That was just 👌

Happy fucking holidays, everybody, I needed that dopamine today

[pantheralight]

Welcome to my blog. Art, life, and plants. Enjoy.🖤

[virtualboypsd]

twink consumption ticket (thermal printing on receipt paper)

[strawberryloveyyy]

Yeah... The second is a bit questionable and the only printer we have is a thermal one so it's inkless and only prints in black and white 😭 @khaosprism

[rayvvenn]

Bought myself a portable printer, now my sketchbook looks like that, LOL

[taperwolf]

I found some adhesive paper for my cheap little thermal printer, which means I can turn any image on my phone into a little b&w sticker. And that, in turn, means that I'm probably going to cover all my belongings in stickers.

(This one is from the set of Nijiyon communication stickers for LINE; I used a paint pen to color in Yu's declaration, "Hitori dake nante erabenai yo!!!" : "How do you expect me to choose just one?")

[nicolemakes]

Today I did some furniture arranging, so behold my 1997 win98 rig and ALPS micro dry MD2010R from 1996. Both getting a full strip and clean with retrobrite and a custom external psu for the printer (the R is for ressurected)

[the-torquedork]

TRICK OR TREAT!! are you familiar with thermal printers :O??

Only vaguely, I was aware of arguably their most common use to print receipts, but after making Harry take apart a receipt printer researching this technology, I'm ready to report my findings!

by passing paper with a thermochromic coating over a print head consisting of heating elements. The coating turns black in the areas where it is heated, thus producing images and letters.