Hi all, I am working on some fancy typewriter-embossed mylar book covers, for copies of my most recent book "I, SLUTBOT". I hope to finish this in the next week or so, to sell during the Nondenominational Gift Season.
I've worked with this medium before, and I really like the results. For instance, these business cards: https://www.flickr.com/photos/myklemykle/sets/72157629107400724/) But for the sake of mass production I am starting to wish I had access to one of those old all-mechanical ASCII line printers, the kind we had in the computer lab when I was in college. Enormous, heavy, loud, fast, mechanical, they had a moving chain of typewriter keys that were struck by individual solenoids when they reached the appropriate point on the page. With such a printer, I could create an elaborate artwork in VI and stamp it onto mylar sheets, instead of having to hand-stamp every character on every cover with my Smith-Corona typewriter. Does anybody on this list know where I could find a line printer that still works? I would probably want to experiment with output a bit, and then run a final production of 20 or so sheets of mylar through it. Thanks in advance, -mykle- _______________________________________________ dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list [email protected] http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber
