Mail Call: A Letter From The Center for Typewritten Communications and Typewriter Reclamation!

Got a letter from Bill G last night, and he’s now on Episode 20! I have already answered it, and managed to trick myself into making it a 100% thermally-typed letter, pasted up onto the Episode sheet. It’s kind of fun – I may do this for all my December Letters, just to switch it up a bit! Happy accident indeed! Back in the 80’s a bored kid working in a print shop like me, would occasionally play around with the Xerox copier and eventually discover that if you moved your copy subject around on the copier glass *while it’s scanning*, you could get really cool stretched-out, wavy effects in the resulting copies. It did not occur to me that the same thing applies when printing out a thermal print. Messing with the pace & angle of the paper feed while it’s printing will do the same effect. I see many exciting possibilities! (: Currently in the eyeholes:

Updated: December 11, 2024 — 12:19 pm

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