Printing Without A Printer

From the Dept. of Seemingly Useless But What Do We Know? Inventions: A way to turn an ordinary inkjet cartridge into a portable printer. The quixotic folk at Sprites Mods figured that with a little rewiring, a jot of electricity from a 9V battery and a wad of duct tape, an HP print cartridge could […]

From the Dept. of Seemingly Useless But What Do We Know? Inventions: A way to turn an ordinary inkjet cartridge into a portable printer.Tmbhpim3728

The quixotic folk at Sprites Mods figured that with a little rewiring, a jot of electricity from a 9V battery and a wad of duct tape, an HP print cartridge could be made to spit out ink on its own, no printer required.

Thanks to a steady hand to mimic the lateral movement of a print head holder, the experiment more or less worked, allowing the noble scientist to spray mostly legible characters on everything from beer foam to whiteboards.

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