Gallery of wonderful drawings our little thermal printer received
21 comments
·November 3, 2025thomascountz
Obligatory "be careful with that poisonous paper" warning[1]
[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
stronglikedan
I wonder what their average dickbutt/day rate is.
jacquesm
Probably quite low because they don't directly pipe it to the website. Once you do that the assholes will find you.
Now the worst they might do is to try to kill your roll of paper or your office building by sending all black and hoping the printer overheats.
gnabgib
Related We have a thermal printer hooked up to the internet, you can send us a doodle (115 points, 2023, 108 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37941234
ibarrajo
I just had to try, got a bitmap and set it directly on the canvas using js, I wonder if it will print.
Canvas is 348x348.
https://gist.github.com/ibarrajo/d5dc106cf226a0f2286e7e959ce...
hatingisok
Love this. Manually updating the guestbook doesn't sound fun though. >last update December 10, 2024 It figures.
ticoombs
https://web.archive.org/web/20251103183803/https://guestbook...
Was hugged to death for me.
NoSalt
I wonder how many drawings had a rating greater than PG-13.
busymom0
Btw, you can watch a live feed of their printer, where you should see your artwork coming up:
jansan
Looks like a paper jam
lazystar
The site appears to have gotten the ol' hug-of-death. For those who have seen the contents, can you answer if this is SFW or NSFW? The existing comments in this thread imply the latter.
Edit - downvotes for asking a question? Hackernews is becoming more and more like reddit each day.
busymom0
I was able to check out the site and it was all SFW. I didn't see any objectionable stuff there at all.
Btw, their live stream of the printer is still on YouTube where it shows the content:
0cf8612b2e1e
Are they filtered? My opinion of the average internet user, assumes this would be flooded by trolls immediately.
busymom0
If you read the 2 year old discussion linked in comments here, the owner said that the drawings on the actual website are all manually scanned by hand. So those are probably filtered. However, the YouTube livestream of the printer is not filtered. Basically it will print whatever but your drawing may or may not show up on site.
I love this kinda of stuff, makes me nostalgic for the early days of the internet. There are still so many fun, interesting things to find out there. However, in a twist of irony they seem so much more difficult to discover now.