Behold, the printer lives!

Tim Hutt

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Jun 15, 2011, 9:58:46 PM6/15/11

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This is an A1 OS Mastermap (ie the most detailed national map) of the area around the hackspace. It was printed using the selex printer, and is on the wall next to the door. The idea is that people write where useful stuff is on it.

There are no street names because I haven't done text oriot for the HP-GL/2 mode of my map program yet, but I think it looks cool anyway.

Massive thanks to jonty for saving the printer.

Oh and print time was ~15 minutes for the printer to think about stuff, and 10 minutes to actually print.

Yeay!

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Sam Cook

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Jun 16, 2011, 12:20:52 AM6/16/11

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That's awesome; can't wait to see it. Thanks tim!

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Jun 16, 2011, 12:54:36 AM6/16/11

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Just had a look, really nice.... Thanks

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Mark Steward

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Jun 16, 2011, 8:06:35 AM6/16/11

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I like that the residential block opposite Hackney Community College has its own hidden H.

Elliot West

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Jun 16, 2011, 8:29:57 AM6/16/11

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On 15 June 2011 22:58, Tim Hutt <tdh...@gmail.com> wrote:

Definitely worth the effort - well done!

tom

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Jun 16, 2011, 8:53:17 AM6/16/11

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ooh you need to show me how you got this working, I've got a large
print-job i need to do!

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Lester Hawksby

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Jun 16, 2011, 9:08:42 AM6/16/11

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Awesome, thanks very much for getting this running!

Lester

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Tim Hutt

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Jun 16, 2011, 3:41:49 PM6/16/11

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On 16 June 2011 09:53, tom <bollo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ooh you need to show me how you got this working, I've got a large
> print-job i need to do!

I added a wiki page: http://wiki.hackspace.org.uk/wiki/Equipment/Selex

You basically need to convert your document to HP-GL/2 (vector) or
HP-RTL (raster). Inkscape claims to be able to do this but I haven't
tried it. What do you want to print?

Tom Wardill

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Jun 16, 2011, 12:24:48 PM6/16/11

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Ooooh, that's fantastic.

Any chance of doing any requests of areas to print?

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Tom Wardill

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Jun 17, 2011, 10:58:06 AM6/17/11

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Ideally, I'd love a map of where I live. But given that's York, I'm unlikely to be able to print it in the london space :)

Any chance someone could do it for beer money, a donation to the space and postage to get it to me?

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