I had a little Comprint printer in the 1970s/1980s that used something
sort of like this. The paper was aluminum coated, thus conductive. The
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, tony duell wrote:
That is how the Sinclair ZX printer works and also things like the Axiom
EX820. Spark (about 80-100V IIRC) to aluminium-coated paper.
Even Radio Shack had one of those! But not for long. Crumpling the paper
could lose the image. ANd THERMAL printers couldn't handle leaving a
printout in the sun.
The VT52 printer is not like that. The raw paper looks like paper
(slightly yellow, but that might just be age), it is not metal-coated.
So, NOT the same.
