If I ever had one I would have saved it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_wheel_printing


On Nov 27, 2014, at 1:13 PM, Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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

_______________________________________________
dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list
[email protected]
http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber

Reply via email to