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Print Messages On Your Beer

Posted by kdawson on from the for-its-own-sweet-sake dept.

Migraineman writes "I stumbled upon a clever hack by Sprite. He reverse-engineered the pin functions on an HP inkjet cartridge and built a simple driver board that converts the cartridge into a hand-held inkjet printer. The driver board is programmed with a fixed message. Moving the 'print head' is your responsibility. Printing messages on a whiteboard was the original inspiration, but printing messages on the foam head of a Guinness is just inspired."

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  1. Something like... by Yetihehe · · Score: 3, Informative

    This http://www.printdreams.com/ ?

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  2. Reverse engineering??? by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 2, Informative
    As well as being old news, HP cartridge driving have been reverse engineered by many for many years. Heck I was involved in a company that used HP cartridges in a wide-bed plotter we developed in the late 1980s/early 1990s (before HP did a wide bed printer plotter). There was not much secrecy back then. HP published almost all the details in the HP Journal somewhere around 1988.

    Back then we drank beer. wtf with the geeks of today?

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  3. Bikes Against Bush by prakslash · · Score: 5, Informative

    A dude in New York City, Josh Kinberg, used a similar internet-enabled, dot-matrix printer mounted on a bike.
    He used it to spray paint anti-Bush grafitti on New York's streets during the last elections.
    Very cool. The cops arrested him and took his stuff but he was let go and won a case against them.
    Video of the printer in action. His site.

  4. Re:Beer??? by mj_sklar · · Score: 4, Informative
    Yes, it is a stout! And, by the article you linked to, a stout is a beer!

    Stout is a style of dark beer made using roasted malts or roast barley.
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  5. Spray paint? by way2trivial · · Score: 2, Informative

    that would be malicious.. his device dropped chalk dust, which easily washes away...

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  6. Re:Guinness Wastage! by Petrushka · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wait, we are talking about beer aren't we?

    The quality of Guinness varies in inverse proportion to the distance between St James' Gate and the bar it's served in. For better Guinness, go closer to Dublin. :-)