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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Game Boy Printer and Receipt Paper

So I finally got some receipt paper for my Game Boy Printer and it works wonderfully.  As I mentioned on a previous post, the only problem was the width of the paper.




The receipt paper shown in the picture is a little over twice the width of original Game Boy Printer thermal paper, so I removed the spool from the original paper roll and started wrapping the receipt paper around it.  When I was satisfied with the amount of paper wrapped around the spool, I cut off the paper and relocated the spool to one edge of the roll.  I then used a portion of the original thermal paper as a guide to cut through the new roll of receipt paper with a serrated knife.  Now this technique might be considered lazy or sloppy, but it is definitly the fastest way to get the most paper cut per unit time.





As the pictures show, the paper works perfectly in the printer.  And yes, the picture is of a cat caught drinking out of a toilet.

12 comments:

  1. Awesome! I could have sworn that the gameboy printer worked with thermal paper and not regular one!

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  2. What about ink, what's the craic with that?

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  3. I love those printers. I still have mine :)

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  4. Holy crap. What a rush of nostalgia you just gave me :D

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  5. i had one of those aswell, ahh bringing back the good times

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  6. Absolutely love what your doing. I remember owning one of these! Thumbs up!

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  7. @Patti D.
    The receipt paper I used is thermal paper. Sorry, I should have specified in my post.

    @Anonymous
    The Game Boy Printer does not use ink, it uses heat to react with the thermal paper to create the images.

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  8. what i dont even get y gameboy has a printer

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  9. I remember seeing one of these in a store when i was a kid. I'm kinda ashamed to say that I wanted it really badly. crappy printings and everything.

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  10. I used to have a gameboy camera, It was the coolest idea but ended up being fun for 5 minutes.

    It's great reading about all the accessories again though! Followed!

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