You mean a daisy-wheel printer like one of these? http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR3.TRC2.A0.H0.Xdaisy+wheel+printer&_nkw=daisy+wheel+printer&_sacat=0
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Mykle Hansen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list [email protected] http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber
