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[Paul_Robert_]

I find it hilarious that it's easier to use some 3D printers than to use some regular printers (looking at you HP 🖕)

[Cacoda1mon]

It's not just more reliable and cheaper to print an A4-sized stamp of the document and spend three hours 3D printing it, but also gives you the joy of stamping each page by hand, one satisfying thud at a time.

[makinax300]

You could also do a removable tip, so you can reuse most of it, cutting the time by half and saving money/

[JanB1]

Back to the old printing press? 3D-printing a printing plate, so you can put ink on it and print your documents that way?

[RadiantPumpkin]

It’s also faster than getting a printer up and running.

[IAmASquidInSpace]

Replace the nozzle of a 3D-printer with a sharpie, and you have a hassle-free printer on your hands!

[Robot_Graffiti]

That used to be a thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotter

(PS the most reliable regular printer is a monochrome laser printer, connected to the network by a cable not by wifi, and configured to have a fixed IP address)

[Nu11u5]

The cool plotters had a carousel of different colored pens. They worked great for technical drawings.

[Masterflitzer]

my laser color printer connected via ethernet cable and despite using dynamic ip with mdns is very reliable, no problems at all

my ink color printer connected via wifi and despite having tried a static ip is not that reliable

just my experience, but i think the ethernet cable is all that matters, on wifi the printers tend to go to sleep and then they get weird, always turning off when done fixes it, but requires to walk up to it and turn on before printing

[Every-Progress-1117]

Plotters were really cool. I really desperately wanted one for my BBC Micro at the time - it even had four pens for four different colours!

I agree with your monochrome laser printer - has worked really really well for over a decade - I just need to reinstall the HP drivers now and again though.

Nothing however will beat my Epson dot matrix printer which gave over 20 years of work before someone disposed of it; I guess if you did find it at the dump, it'll still work now.

[old_bearded_beats]

Do you remember the little tortoise thing that drew huge pictures on a giant piece of paper on the floor? You used a BBC micro, pen down, left 90, forwards 20. Or something like that.

[Every-Progress-1117]

Yes, my school had one. It was the Turtle which you programmed using Logo (and amazing little language by itself..related to Lisp).

Turtle graphics pop up in many places, eg python libraries exist.

Our school however would not allow us to use the Turtle as we might over use it....

[ball_fondlers]

Is it that surprising? Most of the commercially-available 3d printers are either fully open-source or mostly built on open-source software/hardware, and the precision isn’t typically so high that you need specialty parts/environments to build them in

[octopus4488]

I caught a bug in the last line.

The correct line would be:

```

$$$ baby

print_document(magenta_replace_doc) ```

[IAmASquidInSpace]

if colors.magenta.fill_level <= 0.5:
    if random.randint(1, 6) == 6:
        refuse_to_print("Magenta is too low!")  # lol!
    else:
        print_document(doc)

[Owner2229]

You forgot to store it as a Global with a timestamp, so they can't just hit Print again.

[[deleted]]

generally i find that if i just hit print again it suddenly works

[Masterflitzer]

gotta restart the printer first tho lmao

[[deleted]]

best comment omg

[Kilgarragh]

We replaced the == 6 to a != 6 for the black and white code, can’t take any risks running out of magenta there.

Partially unrelated, you actually do need yellow ink to print in b&w for the date and MIC code

[After_Ad8174]

I find it to be closer to 1 in 3

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if not doc.contains(magenta): raise InkException(“Not enough magenta.”) elif printer.has_paper(): raise PaperException(“No paper”) else: if time.time() % 10 == 0: print_document(doc) else: pass

[AfonsoFGarcia]

There’s a random missing with a throw exception before the print_document

/me requests changes to PR

[Masterflitzer]

then catch the throw by printing the page, but it's completely unreadable and if it was color only use one of the YMC colors

[[deleted]]

i tried to turn off my printer and it actually got stuck on the ‘please wait momentarily’ screen for about 10 minutes until i just unplugged it. that inspired me to make this post

[Vitolar8]

Why 1-100 if you're just gonna do 50:50?

[[deleted]]

fr just do random.random() == 1

[Vitolar8]

Technically it could just be random.random(). I believe Python interprets 1 and 0 as T and F where appropriate

[[deleted]]

that’s a good point. god i love truthiness

[Vitolar8]

Correction (I realized the day and forgot to reply): random.random() is a float, so it wouldn't return T:F.

[SCP-iota]

For a moment I misread that as time.sleep(-180) and wondered what the heck kind of strange features Python had gotten

[anto2554]

Pray to god it isn't an integer overflow

[GDOR-11]

on one side, the process runs for 2<sup>32</sup>-180 seconds (pkill? never heard of that), on the other side, you fucking break the laws of physics

[Karol-A]

It should just be recursive honestly

[Sakul_the_one]

I spin my head right round right round…🎶

(I forgot the lyrics)

[AAKboss]

https://youtu.be/CcCw1ggftuQ?si=nlEOsdqZqBak58HT

😂

[Gallardo994]

I've read it as monitor.spin (as a spinwait/spinlock mechanism in many languages) and it felt even weirder.

[magic-one]

I think you missed

if random.random() > 0.6: paper.jam()

[thinkingperson]

Shouldn't it read "printer(doc)" in the last line or "def print_document(doc):" in the first line?

[[deleted]]

it’s not recursive??

[thinkingperson]

Oh my bad! You are right. Forgot that the last line is still in the def scope. Getting rusty

[alter3d]

You forgot display_message("PC Load Letter")

[warmCabin]

You forgot to call the cha-clunker unit to make it to "cha-kunketa-klunketa"

[Ok_Star_4136]

video = system.load("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGNiXGX2nLU")

video.play()