MetaFilter posts tagged with printer

Pasta Printer

mattbucher — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:04:19 -0800

The Fabaroni is a 3D printing machine that constructs 3D models with pasta dough. You've also got the 3D chocolate printer made out of lego. And Previously.

Dot Matrix Fun

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:13:40 -0800

You can print a line on a Epson Printer located in Brugg, Switzerland. There is a live video stream to see what you're printing as well as a light switch so you're not printing in the dark (snapshot).

Stuff you can print out

OmieWise — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:58:39 -0800

Things you can print. From a pinhole camera to a wifi antenna to a Sudoku generator.

Best off the web?

pithy comment — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:16:31 -0800

People find printing Web pages too hard. Hewlett-Packard is devising ways to get people to print Web pages instead of reading them on-screen. Last month, H.P. bought Tabblo (previously), whose software creates templates that reorganize the photos and text blocks on a Web page to fit standard sizes of paper. H.P. wants to make the software a standard by making it ubiquitous like flash, java and Acrobat.

World's Least Likely Invention

GuyZero — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:28:57 -0800

From Hammacher Schlemmer, "America's Longest Running Catalog", comes the most unlikely invention of this holiday season: the Computerless Email Printer. It dials up to the Internet, downloads and prints emails, all without one of those pesky computers. If only someone could have invented this in, say, 1843.

Flower Printer

Gator — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 05:04:41 -0800

I think that I shall never see, A billboard lovely as a...flower. Just in time for Valentine's Day, send your sweetie a dozen roses with custom-printed, spectacular Engrish messages on the petals. Also useful for wedding anniversaries and football games.

IKEA, your days are numbered

greatgefilte — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:39:46 -0800

Want it? Make it! 3D printers aren't that new -- already there are robots that print houses, inkjet printers that print human tissue, and for you CSI fans, machines that can reconstruct bullets, among other things. What's new, you ask? Machines that can produce anything and self-replicate, too. All under a GNU General Public License.

What a Racket

brookish — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 14:10:23 -0800

The average PC printer's ink costs more than 16 times as much as an equivalent amount of vintage 1985 Dom Perignon champagne.

the luxury of ignorance

reklaw — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 13:39:21 -0800

"We are now deep in the trackless swamps created by thoughtless, feckless UI design — full of glitz and GUI, signifying nothing." In The Luxury of Ignorance, Eric Raymond attempts to set up a network printer in Linux.

One life size copy of Britney please...

MintSauce — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 05:25:35 -0800

Printers produce copies in 3D. Z corporation demos 'low-cost' 3D printers at the SIGGRAPH CGI show.

Erendadus — Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:04:16 -0800

Yahoo Becomes Printer UNfriendly "The text-only news on Yahoo! News has been discontinued. Please use the main Yahoo! News site." What gives?