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A Printer Printing onto Paper

33 points MrBuddyCasino 3 days ago 8 comments

dylan604 1 hour ago | parent

With all of the DRM nonsense around printers and authorized print cartridges, I'm kind of shocked the cartridge doesn't also have something that prevents printing if not in an authorized printer.

Not being part of a printer have anything to do with why the print looks bad? Like the thing he created to get the print head to spray ink isn't the same drivers and that's just a PoC to make the project possible? If this is just an extension cable from an actual printer, the quality looks janky to what I'd expect from modern ink jets.

drum55 1 hour ago | parent

There's been controllers for all sorts of common cartridges for a long time, a lot of low end UV printers all use a specific Epson cartridge that they run their own plumbing and electronics for. The end result of the device looks almost hand made a lot of the time, it's an XY plotter with a gigantic expensive print head on the end. https://www.amazon.com/mew/dp/B0FF93HB2W https://www.ebay.com/itm/397039456738

gaudat 1 hour ago | parent

AI slop picture i swear. Inkjet heads essentially boils ink to jet (see?) it out of tiny nozzels. Never drips like that.

Yes i didn't bother reading the caption.

gnabgib 1 hour ago | parent

No discussion, but this is from the Nikon Small World competition (4 points, yesterday) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234796

The Nikon Small World in Motion competition, which only recently ended, was troubled by the prize winner being AI generated (3 points, 24 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934521

kristianp 52 minutes ago | parent

Fascinating images. The article linked by the parent has some info https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/meet-the-2026-winner...

His website is https://www.macrofying.com/ which is mostly links to the usual image/video sharing sites.

kensaito 1 hour ago | parent

Incredible research. Now I'd love to hear your thoughts through your sense of touch instead of sight.

eru 2 minutes ago | parent

You can hear sight?