Very cool. I was expecting to learn about the ins and outs of ink, printheads etc but instead learned "How to build a paper that acts like a printer" which turned out much more entertaining.
Wanted ideas on how to build an ink printer that is untraceable. For privacy reasons.
I wonder why we don't see slow-but-actually-works approaches that reuse 3d-printer hardware
just put a pen or sharpie on the same mechanism, no?
This is called a 'plotter', there's a whole community of axi-draw enthusiasts making cool art, for 200 bones you can probably have one on your doorstep tomorrow
And it's been a thing wayyyyyy before 3D printers were even a twinkle in some engineers eye
Alas, you might have to make do with a dot-matrix printer at draft quality.