Pretty cool #custom #label #printer https://hackaday.com/2022/06/15/diy-auto.. I really have a fascination with #opensource #printers of all kinds.
Wow, #canon #printers now don't even #recognise #genuine #ink #cartridges as #legit after the #chip #shortage has screwed with their #lock " #features " https://twitter.com/naderman/status/1479.. Apparently #canon are telling people how to #bypass the #warnings ... The #hackernews #comments are pretty good too, with one person claiming that #hp #regionlocked their #ink because the #climate is supposed to be different: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=298.. Madness!
Interesting, people appear to be replacing #acrylic for #corrugated #plastic ( #coroplast ), saving #weight , #cost and better #insulating 3D #printers https://hackaday.com/2021/10/06/3d-print.. This could be something that the #buildone looks into using in order to reduce costs... That of course assumes that the #acrylic is not #structural - but it looks like it is: https://digistump.com/wiki/buildone/base..
Very cool #arduino #library to interact with #thermal #printers https://hackaday.com/2021/09/21/mini-wir.. I really want to use one of these, but just can't quite think of the #usecase ... Perhaps it could #print something #daily , like some #information #dump - or the results of a #simulation , or #server #performance , etc. Also could be used for printing a daily #todo list at the start of each day.