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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This does exist and you can see it in almost every supermarket in the World: the ticket printer. And the tickets end up fading

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ticket printers use a special thermosensitive paper.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Back when I used to work as a cashier I would blow my employees mind by heating up random things with my lighter and pressing them onto the paper when nobody was looking. Had everyone thinking the printer was hacked

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Thermal printer is the technical name.