Considering this thing already exists, I suppose the goal here is that it's a bit of industrial design? Regardless of how it prints (be it the same as a ribbon

Considering this thing already exists, I suppose the goal here is that it's a bit of industrial design? Regardless of how it prints (be it the same as a ribbon-less Zebra printer), this obviously requires an additional device so instead of writing it down, then printing it, you could also not print it and keep the written down version. Or you could write it on the paper directly. But this is probably not why this was designed, it's not a solution to anything, but just conceptualised 'to exist'.