Comments on: More Microprinting

By: max

max — Thu, 12 May 2011 22:41:45 +0000

Hey roo, this is fantastic im trying to do it myself but struggling. is there code for twitter printing? or something you based it on. thanks for all your help already.

thanks max

By: James Bridle

James Bridle — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:04:46 +0000

I love the scroll-book idea. I now have a reason to get into this thermal printing thing. Plus, if a few of us have them, I’d really like to set up a round robin game of Exquisite Corpse.

By: Tom Taylor

Tom Taylor — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:55:56 +0000

Roo – this is all awesome!

By: Roo

Roo — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 14:13:50 +0000

John: excellent stuff. I have not got round to adding image support yet, but was going to attempt to decipher the manual later today. Any tips, or example code, gratefully accepted.

Kyb: very cheap to produce. No ink to consume, and if you buy thermal toll rolls in bulk they’re almost free. I like the idea of a spooling device for reading it, but I was imagining just pulling chunks off by hand, keeping the bits I wanted to keep, making notes in the margins, etc.

The most painful but was rolling it up after printing. If the printers motor could be made to run backwards, it would be really easy to suck the book back on to the roll again. Hmm.

By: kybernetikos

kybernetikos — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:52:04 +0000

Now this I like. That’s relatively portable for a book, and presumably quite cheap to produce. Now you just need a better way of rolling it up and a convenient way to use it to read from, perhaps some sort of scroll like arrangement with spindles, maybe clockwork style springs, so it would roll past by itself as you held a button.

By: John Honniball

John Honniball — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:44:19 +0000

I have begun to write a bit-mapped image printing program for the (very similar) Citizen CBM 1000. So far, I've only done 432-pixel-wide images, for the very sound reason that I only have 58mm wide paper! 80mm wide paper will allow 576-pixel-wide images. Initial test run shown here.

By: Ralph Corderoy

Ralph Corderoy — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:54:15 +0000

Roo, it would be nice to see a pbmto…, or pgmto… program if any of them support grayscale, to fit in with the other netpbm programs. Then it would be trivial to use the other parts of netpbm to produce a dithered black and white image. wget -qO- http://…jpg | djpeg | ppmtopgm | pgmtopbm | pbmto…

By: James Taylor

James Taylor — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:13:01 +0000

Think the daily summary could be really useful- might stand a chance of remembering birthdays and anniversaries, and a traffic report for choosing a route to work would be very handy.

I would need a reminder somewhere to pick it up though!