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Here's a ridiculous idea: photographic contact printing using a transparent LCD screen! A good result would probably require commercially made photo paper, but maybe this could work with a totally DIY anthotype process? And the LCD could be salvaged from an old computer monitor...

LCD contact prints: https://pierremuth.wordpress.com/2020/04/18/digital-picture-...

Anthotypes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthotype

Salvaged displays: https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Use-an-Overhead-Project...

A pen plotter might be the most well-trod path to go. I regularly come across home made ones.

sort of

https://hackaday.io/project/167446-diy-inkjet-printer