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Piggy-backing on this thread: does anyone know of any open-hardware computer printer you can DIY at home? (Ideally not using any pre-made ink/etc. cartridges; c

by akavel 3y ago

Piggy-backing on this thread: does anyone know of any open-hardware computer printer you can DIY at home? (Ideally not using any pre-made ink/etc. cartridges; can be a dot-matrix or even Selectric/daisy-wheel printer.)

fnord77 3y ago
sort of https://hackaday.io/project/167446-diy-inkjet-printer https://hackaday.io/project/167446-diy-inkjet-printer
sudobash1 3y ago
A pen plotter might be the most well-trod path to go. I regularly come across home made ones.
nickloewen 3y ago
Here's a ridiculous idea: photographic contact printing using a transparent LCD screen! A good result would probably require commercially made photo paper, but maybe this could work with a totally DIY anthotype process? And the LCD could be salvaged from an old computer monitor... LCD contact prints: https://pierremuth.wordpress.com/2020/04/18/digital-picture-to-analog-darkroom-print/ https://pierremuth.wordpress.com/2020/04/18/digital-picture-... Anthotypes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthotype https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthotype Salvaged displays: https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Use-an-Overhead-Projector-as-a-Computer-Mon/ https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Use-an-Overhead-Project...