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[–] 35 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I wish there was a cheap simple laser engraver that could just “burn” black the surface of generic bulk printer paper. As in an inkless monochrome printer.

A bit like How to Cut, Score, and Engrave Paper With a Laser but without the need to use dedicated laser cutter.

With the explosion of interest in 3D printing, machining and laser cutters, I'm just eager to get hold of a printer like that and forever give up on liquid ink and toners of all sorts.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This does exist and you can see it in almost every supermarket in the World: the ticket printer. And the tickets end up fading

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ticket printers use a special thermosensitive paper.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I get the sense that everyone responding to this is completely missing the joke.

    They mean laser printers, people.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No he clearly says no ink and no toner. Toner is melted onto the paper after a laser (now mostly LEDs) heat up a drum. He's talking about burning the paper with a laser.... Which would be interesting but really hard to do where a top layer is burned black without toasting the rest of the layers.

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