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Tangentially related: anyone has suggestions on an "automated" way to "print" pages with a typewriter? If you want to have papers that "look" as typed with a ty
by simonebrunozzi 7mo ago
Tangentially related: anyone has suggestions on an "automated" way to "print" pages with a typewriter? If you want to have papers that "look" as typed with a typewriter, as opposed to printed with laser printers and such.
- c22 7mo agoTeletype machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter
- electroly 7mo agoThis is what a teletype is: it's a typewriter with a serial connection. You send bytes over the serial cable and it types them.
- airstrike 7mo agoOnly tangentially related, but this is a good research starting point: https://www.gt-pressura.com/ https://www.gt-pressura.com/
- 2ap 7mo agoYou want a daisy wheel printer[1] I think. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_wheel_printing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_wheel_printing
- jagged-chisel 7mo agoAdd this to your list if things you try: https://sixcolors.com/link/2021/02/a-hyperrealistic-typewriter-font-for-the-2020s/ https://sixcolors.com/link/2021/02/a-hyperrealistic-typewrit... Article links right to the font.
- kmoser 7mo agoThis is cool, but when viewed up close, laser-printed letters still lack the fuzzy edges and imprinted texture of letters created by typewriter slugs.
- jagged-chisel 7mo agoIndeed
- vonunov 7mo agoIf you also want a thing to do typewriting on, later-model word processors (e.g., Smith Corona PWP series) tend to have a feature that auto-types text entered and edited earlier. It'll have the imprinting insofar as the type impacts the paper, but it's not going to have the off-center / over-inked / patchy manual typewriter look. For that you may just want to find a font face that replicates it.