HP Printrule
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I wish there was a cheap simple laser engraver that could just “burn” black the surface of generic bulk printer paper. As in an inkless monochrome printer.
A bit like How to Cut, Score, and Engrave Paper With a Laser but without the need to use dedicated laser cutter.
With the explosion of interest in 3D printing, machining and laser cutters, I'm just eager to get hold of a printer like that and forever give up on liquid ink and toners of all sorts.
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This does exist and you can see it in almost every supermarket in the World: the ticket printer. And the tickets end up fading
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Ticket printers use a special thermosensitive paper.
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Thermal printer is the technical name.
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Back when I used to work as a cashier I would blow my employees mind by heating up random things with my lighter and pressing them onto the paper when nobody was looking. Had everyone thinking the printer was hacked
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I get the sense that everyone responding to this is completely missing the joke.
They mean laser printers, people.
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Laser printers don't burn the paper. They require toners. So it wasn't a joke unless they also didn't know how a laser printer works.
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No he clearly says no ink and no toner. Toner is melted onto the paper after a laser (now mostly LEDs) heat up a drum. He's talking about burning the paper with a laser.... Which would be interesting but really hard to do where a top layer is burned black without toasting the rest of the layers.
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Pretty sure that's how my receipt printer works, but it's just one color onto specialized paper.
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specialized paper
Thermal paper. Thermal printer.
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Maybe because they already have dot matrix printer, so that new type of printer might not be high in demand if it's on the market today.
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