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Radical Centrist
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Jan 21, 2011: History of desktop printing in one book
![]() No, it's art. French artist Xavier Antin set this up; it's four different desktop printing technologies, lines up so that the output of one printer becomes the input of another printer. In a row, they are a stencil duplicator, a spirit duplicator, a laser printer, and an inkjet printer. He then did four-color printing and created a book. He had the stencil printer do magenta, the spirit printer do cyan, the laser printer do black and the inkjet printer do yellow. ![]() And that's the art installation. Doesn't look great, but it's kind of amazing that it works at all. Four-color printing was notoriously difficult and expensive before our modern era. If one of the colors is a fraction of an inch off, the whole thing is a bit of a mess. Modern printers can get it right for cheap, only because they manage the process with modern computing. And maybe that's part of the point here. installation via neatorama |
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I have a hard time looking past those wooden stands he made. I suppose he was going for a "built by a 10 year old" look.
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I like it. I imagine the fiber will be good for my digestion too
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Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB.
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I can see why he used four printers, but dot-matrix printers should have been in there before lasers.
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No doubt. I'm looking at a 9 pin impact printer sitting new in the box in my office right now.
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LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz
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Them Okidatas just dont go away do they Flint
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He should hookup with the brick BMW guy - I'll bet they hit it off right away.
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