I wish there was a cheap simple laser engraver that could just “burn” black the surface of generic bulk printer paper. As in an inkless monochrome printer.

A bit like How to Cut, Score, and Engrave Paper With a Laser but without the need to use dedicated laser cutter.

With the explosion of interest in 3D printing, machining and laser cutters, I'm just eager to get hold of a printer like that and forever give up on liquid ink and toners of all sorts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I get the sense that everyone responding to this is completely missing the joke.

They mean laser printers, people.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No he clearly says no ink and no toner. Toner is melted onto the paper after a laser (now mostly LEDs) heat up a drum. He's talking about burning the paper with a laser.... Which would be interesting but really hard to do where a top layer is burned black without toasting the rest of the layers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Pretty sure that's how my receipt printer works, but it's just one color onto specialized paper.