… it’s ART!
A few days ago I found a DYMO LabelWriter 400 Turbo had been tossed into a cardboard box with used toner cartridges and broken printer parts.1 After making sure this really was a box of lost things, I swiped the label printer along with its power cord.
Tiny little printers such as this kind of label writer never use inkjet cartridges or require laser cartridges. They print using heat – like receipt printers. The catch, since they can’t get you with inkjet/toner cartridges, is that the labels are stickers with specially treated heat sensitive non-sticky sides.
Ideally, I would love to feed this little printer some cheap receipt paper and run it as a small, cheap, USB tethered printer. I already have an Adafruit IoT printer, which I love dearly – but it would be awesome to have one that my daughter could use. Apparently this has already been done more than once.
After loading up the newest drivers for the printer and trying out the newest software for it, I couldn’t get my laptop running Win 7 to recognize the printer. I’m looking forward to tinkering with this. :)
- Photo courtesy of Tinkerbots [↩]
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@DYMO: That would be AWESOME!!!! You can count on hearing from me! Thank you so much for reaching out!