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Microprinter Sparklines

Ever since Tom Taylor inspired quite a few of us to play with printers, I’ve been seeing what I can get mine to do. So far: barcodes were pretty quick. More recently, daily digests, twitter updates and even printing an entire a book. What’s next? Sparklines turned out to be fairly easy. I’ve written a […]

Posted byRooJuly 18, 2009July 17, 2009Posted inmicroprinterTags: microprinter, sparklines2 Comments on Microprinter Sparklines

More Microprinting

I’ve been experimenting a bit more with the thermal receipt printer I bought recently. Inspired by Tom’s daily digests I’ve been trying some of my own. You only get 48 characters per line using the default font. The alternative font (font B) is much denser, with 64 characters per line. The second printout is only […]

Posted byRooFebruary 23, 2009April 25, 2010Posted infun, geek, home, microprinterTags: microprinter8 Comments on More Microprinting

Microprinter

Inspired by Tom Taylor’s microprinter project, I’ve bought a Citizen CBM-231 thermal reciept printer of my own. I picked it up for just £20 on eBay, including shipping. It’s great. Tom uses his to print the weather, his diary, where his friends are (according to Dopplr) and more. As soon as I saw it, I […]

Posted byRooFebruary 1, 2009April 25, 2010Posted infun, geek, home, microprinter, toysTags: microprinter23 Comments on Microprinter

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