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Re: homebrew thermal transfer printer testing

2007-03-17 by docstein99

> How narrow is an inkjet print head? Think about it...
> 
> The Alps ribbon is about 12 to 15mm wide. Prints 8.5x14 page.

Yes that is another good point.  If you ran the ribbon like an old dot-
matrix printer, and designed a machine to work just like that ribbon, 
you could possibly make a thermal printout as wide and as long as your 
skills are to make a machine to handle that type of thing.

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