Okay, a bit more on the #thermalPaper printing front, in case you enjoyed my #ToyCamera tootz and pics.
I received the cheap printer ($12) I wanted to play with. It's like the toy camera, but without the camera part. You can send things from your phone - text and images. Fun.
A bit of playing around with the toy instant camera with thermal paper this evening.
A friend had a bunch of left over thermal paper from her father's estate. There are old rolls of 5cm stuff and two big rolls of old 8.5" fax machine stuff.
Trying it out! Not sure what the shelf life is like. It is likely decades old.
Print settings are dark, normal, light and dot-matrix. In the pic, dark is at the top, and the normally very light and pixelated.
The left column is the standard paper that comes with the camera. Middle is the very old (calculator?) roll, and right is the old fax ppr hand trimmed.
The cat pic is prob a bit dark, being shot in the dim livingroom just now.
Received my toy camera today. It was on sale for 20% off, which made it about $30, including three rolls of thermal receipt paper to print onto. Thanks to @rasterweb for pointing it out to me! #photography#art#toyCamera
Ok, I caved and bought that $32 “instant” digital camera that prints on thermal paper.
It’s a weird and wonderful shitty camera. The printer is pretty good, using error diffusion dithering but a bit slow. It’s apparently a 12MP camera that can also do 1080p video on the included 32GB SD card. Obs targeted at kids with the built in filters but there’s something about the immediateness that’s fun about it. Wonder how hackable it is?
Some prints from the $32 thermal printing kids camera thing so you can see the output closeup. I’m surprised by the dynamic range of the prints from just a monochrome printer doing error dithering.