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I am looking for a mini printer specifically designed for A5 size, does anyone know where i can find it? it will look similar to this but smaller (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You will probably be best served with an industrial label printer, I used one while working in a grocery store to make tags. They come in toner varieties, so no thermal paper issues, and they are made to be portable. That being said, they are not at all cheap or simple. You are wanting to look into two companies, Zebra and Symbol, specifically at their mobile printers.

https://www.zebra.com/us/en/products/printers/mobile.html?page=1

To be fair, what you are asking for is nigh impossible without going thermal, and the reason can be summed up by one question: Where do you plan on putting the ink?

[–] Boozilla 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The Brother PocketJet series of printers might have a model you like. I have never used one of the PJ printers, but I've had good experiences with other Brother printers.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Just fyi those are thermal printers, so you’ll have to buy the right paper that has the ink inside (like receipts). Small and portable is a perfect application of thermal printing, as long as don’t need higher resolution for photos

[–] AppearanceBoring9229 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Altough termal prints seem to fade over time, it seems that his use case is to add images to his notebooks. So i don't think that would be a good idea unless the plan is to throw it away at the end of the course

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Make a book of notes from a variety of sources, lectures and references just in time for it all to fade right before the semester exams.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Even basic A3 printers look like over 600$ . What's your use case.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

integrate it into a laptop so that i can print my notes and add it to my note book where i take handwritten notes (it's size is also A3) while i am at work or class

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Are you sure about A3? A3 is twice the size of A4, not half of it.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] merde 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

a better graphic ☞

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[–] taladar 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

A0 is also exactly 1 square meter which makes it easy to figure out the number of pages of e.g. A4 from weight if you know what kind of gramm per square meter paper you are dealing with (which is why that is often part of the packaging).

The aspect ratio of the two sides is the square root of 2 since you otherwise couldn't divide it again and again and get sizes with the same aspect ratio.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

TIL! Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

The aspect ratio of the two sides is the square root of 2 since you otherwise couldn’t divide it again and again and get sizes with the same aspect ratio.

Thanks, that's very interesting. I always thought that was a common thing, but very clever. 👍 😎

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Just FYI the US Customary units for A4 are wrong on that image. For my fellow Americans, it's 8.3" x 11.7".

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

sorry i meant A5

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Every printer I can find is either formatted for A4/USA Letter, or little photo printers that probably require proprietary software which I doubt would work with regular text. I know some of those even require proprietary photo paper modules, which is why I gave up and never bought one.

I had a Canon ip100 years ago, I can recommend it and they still make a newer one, but it looks waaay bigger than your target size. Good luck

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

100 years ago? damn are you a millennial?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Back in my day we had to get our Internet at the village Internet well. I remember the dialup modem noises it made as you pulled the bucket up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Actually pretty close to how it was.

People on the radio keep talking about this revolutionary information superhighway which sounds grand but no one you know has an internet connection but you read in the newspaper that in a town nearby there is one in a public library. You travel there and find a single computer. There are no instructions and none of the staff know how it works. When you ask to see "the internet" they show you an icon to click and leave you to it. You click it, strange noises happen for a bit then stop and nothing happens, the computer seems frozen. Maybe you broke it but then literally 10 minutes later it un-freezes and you see a list on the screen:

  • alt.binaries.mom
  • alt.binaries.misc
  • alt.binaries.warez
  • alt.binaries.etc
  • alt.binaries.warez.flightsim
  • and so on, hundreds of them
  • comp.lang.c
  • comp.lang.perl
  • comp.lang.prolog
  • blah blah gibberish

Ok none of that sounds like an "information superhighway" so close the window and go back home.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

"alt.fan.furry"

Me: "What is this?" click

[–] DScratch 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fancy pants. The only time I got online to check my emails was when the travelling bitwarden came around, usually in the spring. Unless the winter was hard and the pass was blocked.

[–] taladar 4 points 3 days ago

Ah, I remember those days, back when sci-fi movies had fancy notions such as multi-pass.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

The oldest gen z’s are 28 now!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just to be sure that this isn't driven by misunderstanding, do you specifically require a smaller printer, or do you simply want to be able to print on A5 paper? Are you sure that a mini printer that can print on US Letter or A4 can't print on A5?

I haven't used a mini printer, but I think that all of the traditional printers that I've used can handle smaller paper -- the paper size is just a maximum that the feed system can handle. I'd assume that getting a larger-format mini printer will probably also be capable of doing A5.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

yes i want a small printer specifically for A5

[–] pastermil 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

a regular printer with A5 feed would do

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think they're looking for something portable so they want the device to be as small as possible