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Subject: Re: homebrew thermal transfer printer testing

From: "docstein99" <docstein99@...>
Date: 2007-03-17

> 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.