Comments on: Printer hacking roundup

By: Simon Carrington

Simon Carrington — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:59:29 +0000

I love the paper shredding printer hahaha, where can I get it?

Simon.

By: kaiya

kaiya — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:11:49 +0000

what the junk. that link for a waterfall printer is in some other language. funny, actually.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:04:24 +0000

What about thermal printer hacking? I can’t find much on them on the web. I have a project that requires a ~1″ wide printer and a thermal label writer seems to best but I’ve already destroyed one label writer, hoping to find some better solution!

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:29:57 +0000

It’s kinda like a clips show… and who really likes clip shows?

By: paulmac

paulmac — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:31:10 +0000

Roundups, HAD extras. Bring ‘em on. Love them.

By: thetable

thetable — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:19:39 +0000

I definitely like the round up deal. Now off to dig through the Freecycle listings for printers.

By: Barry Carter

Barry Carter — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:51:30 +0000

As a side note I am working on modding my inkjet with a dvd/rw laser for cutting acetate sheet for making solder paste masks. I have the assembly hooked up, now I need to build drivers for the laser, proably based on the above link I posted.

By: Barry Carter

Barry Carter — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:49:04 +0000

Dont forget the cardridge mod for printing onto beer ;)

Page 4 for effect. Read from page 1!
http://www.spritesmods.com/?art=inker&page=4

By: Tom61

Tom61 — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:20:44 +0000

Round ups (so long as they keep to mostly off HaD posts) seem an OK idea.

@1 Marco: Those pins are rather expensive $20 for a couple of oz of liquid, so etching would probably be cheaper. Also, there might be trouble with the liquid running whenever the plotter movement stops.

I recently had an idea for a vinyl cutter: use it to print 3D by cutting and layering the shapes. I saw a simular professional device that used adhesive paper that was used to make a skull from a scan to determine what someone dead would've looked like. Cut a square and then cut the image inside it, but perforated, so you could just stack the squares easily, then cut off the excess off with an exacto knife (also seen on the above professional rapid prototyper).

By: andrew

andrew — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:27:35 +0000

don't forget about paul slocum's dot matrix synthesizers:

http://qotile.net/dotmatrix.html

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:42:38 +0000

Has anyone done a plotter/printer hack to print with a silver PCB pen? That way you could actually print circuits as opposed to transferring/etching them..