Fun with medical surplus video printers

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Used medical video printers regularly turn up on Ebay.
Here's a video showing a couple of things you can do with one.
00:00 Introduction
01:18 Sockets and buttons
04:26 Printing video stills
05:39 Suggestions/tips
08:27 The ‘selfie’ machine
11:03 Credits
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@cmb1972 3 года назад

fit it to your front door, so when someone presses the doorbell a print of them comes out the letterbox LOL

@FabFunty 3 года назад

Or you could put the printer on your desk so you can see who's outs.... 🙄 _Uhm just forget about it, I leave now_ 🤣

@benji.B-side 3 года назад

Haha class!

@MartijnterHaar 3 года назад

The Look Mom No Computer Guy could make something like that for his museum.

@golf-n-guns 3 года назад

Lol

@peterpiper0815 3 года назад

@@MartijnterHaar I guess he would modify it first so it can play a some music/sound while printing

@MoultrieGeek 3 года назад

"I'm terribly sorry Mrs Jones but your sonogram shows that you are pregnant with a middle-age Englishman."

@SubTroppo 3 года назад

Could be worse!

@joshuascholar3220 3 года назад

@TheStanHill 3 года назад

Flippin’ ‘eck!

@smacksalad 3 года назад

I lolled :)

@cavemanvi 3 года назад

but now youre into inexplicably looking on ebay for high fidelity audio things you cant afford

@Jingleboy14 3 года назад

It’s like a pro version of a Game Boy Printer & Camera.

@zoepertom 3 года назад

I always wanted that as a kid

@willd6215 3 года назад

First thing I thought lol

@nrdesign1991 3 года назад

I had those! They were primitive, even for the time, but all the games and messing around with the images was so much fun!

@dean43669 3 года назад

@@Adamisgood24 Nice. 👍

@CommodoreFan64 3 года назад

exactly what I was thinking before I read the comments 👍

@MrButtonpresser 3 года назад

That last pic to come out should have been one of the muppets... LOL

@wasitacatisaw83 3 года назад

9:46 "Is it a girl or a boy doctor?" "Erm, it's a telephone Mrs Smith"

@LiamE69 3 года назад

"We'll start at the back" Quite fitting for something used in endoscopy.

@danlee5138 3 года назад

We used this model of printer back in the 90's in a football stadium control room. If the controller noticed any loutish behaviour in camera a print would be taken from the spot monitor of the individual and a steward would be dispatched with print in hand to apprehend said lout!

@izzieb 3 года назад

You must have gone through a lot of rolls of paper...

@nekomasteryoutube3232 3 года назад

Sounds like a good way to watch any buggers ruining the game the other players and crowds watching (unless your one of those weird fans that enjoys seeing the players get banged up by some dink)

@johnpenguin9188 3 года назад

@@izzieb paper is cheap

@kenmore01 3 года назад

...and call him a lout, no doubt. 😃

@obroni 3 года назад

Translation: 'Lout' (British English) = 'Philadelphia Flyers fan' (American English)

@adriansdigitalbasement 3 года назад

The quality is surprisingly great! The 75 ohm switch on the back should he set to "on" if there's nothing connected to the output, otherwise it should be "off." (Or the picture will be too dark as only the last device should be terminating the video signal.)

@iamdarkyoshi 3 года назад

Fun seeing you here, I was thinking the same thing actually

@sittingstill3578 3 года назад

Do think RU-vid sorts comments so that creators of channels you watch are sorted to the top of the comments to encourage engagement?

@IncredulousIndividual 3 года назад

What the dog doin

@sittingstill3578 3 года назад

@Patrick G It seems that they have popped up at the top of comments sections everywhere recently. There may also have been something in the creator community or from RU-vid itself about how to grow one’s channel as a way to encourage visibility. It’s sort of like the _community posts_ and _community poll_ “hacks” exposed by the _Spiffin Brit_ brought to the forefront a few months ago. I find it interesting that this has happened because if you dig deeply enough into a subject on RU-vid, you will discover comments by your favorite creators because these hyper focused creators often fuel the creativity and knowledge of better known creators like _Adrian Black_ and _Techmoan_ who have an above average knowledge of subject matter and reach a wider audience. It’s sort of like how Techmoan cites sources new to most of his viewers or Adrian’s projects on github.

@markjames8664 3 года назад

Seems like an interesting way to capture screen shots from retro computers and games.

@Gornal_Gremlin 3 года назад

The Techmoan effect strikes again! One video triples the price on Ebay! Could you review my car? I could do with the money 🤣

@daftbence 3 года назад

Or as he already said, once people see the thing, they buy the cheap ones and only the expensive ones are left. Surely not every single ebay seller watches techmoan greedily, so they can pump prices in unison... (if your comment was just a joke, good one I guess :D)

@BertGrink 3 года назад

@@daftbence That´s a fair point; I suspect that´s exactly how it happens.

@Gornal_Gremlin 3 года назад

@@daftbence I was definitely joking 😅

@ziginox 3 года назад

@@daftbence And then other sellers listing their products list them at the higher prices as they see the more expensive ones have sold. It's certainly not like price gouging or anything, but there's definitely a supply and demand effect that happens.

@flp322 3 года назад

eBay is an auction site, no? So I imagine a bunch of bidders pile in and drive up the bid, leaving the unsuspecting seller quite happy with the final bid!

@fredbloggs5902 3 года назад

Wonderful place Aldi: Go in for a tin of beans... ...Come out with a security camera!

@SubTroppo 3 года назад

One of my entertainments is to go into the local Aldi here in Brisbane, and see what is the most outlandish "tech." product in the "food store". Yes, I know: sad.

@KenKeenan1973 3 года назад

@@SubTroppo There was a joke going around at the start of the lockdown mocking Aldi's somewhat... unconventional stock: "As a result of high demand, supermarkets have placed limits on the quantities of certain items that can be purchased. Tesco are limiting customers to 4 rolls of toilet paper. Spar are limiting customers to 2 bottles of hand sanitizer. Aldi are limiting customers to 1 wetsuit and 1 trombone"

@Amy_Dunn 3 года назад

Funny enough, there are Aldis in America now, idk if it's the same in the UK but the stock and layout at every one I go to feels like I'm in a weird grocery store "simulator" game.

@smacksalad 3 года назад

I love my Aldi Welding Mask. Never done any welding but thats not the point! :)

@TOBAPNW_ 3 года назад

@@Amy_Dunnyeah that sounds exactly like ALDI to me.

@tiberiu_nicolae 3 года назад

We are using that exact printer on our ultrasound machine. I didn't know the quality is that good! Ultrasound images are naturally very grainy to begin with

@EeveeFromAlmia 3 года назад

Still? Honestly just being able to give somebody a physical photo of their baby-to-be like an instant camera is so cool; deff goes right somewhere safe like a baby scrapbook

@TonyHoyle 3 года назад

@@Seatux I remember the early ones.. they had a dedicated room and took up half of it.. the fans to keep all cool were deafening and they 'printed' by having a camera take a picture which was then developed (they were in the xray dept so film developing was just routine). The last ultrasound I had was a small box the size of a PC with a printer attached, on a trolley.. Somewhere inbetween those two extremes I guess they were using thermal printers like this.

@LaithKhalil 3 года назад

@@Seatux The fancier newer machines and endoscopy setups use similarly sized regular photo printers as those have gotten much cheaper and allow for color (that are still available and affordable). You'll still see a lot of these types of printers because frankly they work just fine for black and white images.

@segamon 3 года назад

Same here at the hospital I work at in California.

@mrobinson4210 3 года назад

We currently use these printers and their descendants as well. All diagnostic pictures are captured and stored electronically, but the best couple fun pictures (gender, etc.) are printed for the expectant moms. No need for color, and they’re simple and reliable. Been using the same printers for 20+ years, no need for an upgrade, if it’s not broke, don’t fix it.

@iamdarkyoshi 3 года назад

"If you can find one of them cheap" Well we all know how the Techmoan Effect works :P

@erebostd 3 года назад

But this is something not many people would have ANY use for it..

@j.harbottle8928 3 года назад

@@erebostd Lucky I just bought that second hand mri scanner !

@SianaGearz 3 года назад

It's not Techmoan effect in this case. Any old video junk from that era has by now either been ground to bits or has shot up in price dramatically. He said he bought it years ago before that happened yet. It's a little late and difficult to hunt for them now.

@ChrisBigBad 3 года назад

So THATs the primary advantage of patrons getting stuff early on patreon :D

@NikHYTWP 3 года назад

@@SianaGearz Seems to be Techmoan effect in this case. Notice how the color printers' pricing is low (a few sub 50 pound ones, including a brand new in box printer) but the rest of them are being listed at ridiculous prices. That corresponds to this video - Matt is saying to avoid the color printers so they aren't being scalped. If it was a case of video gear being rare all of the prices would be high (also looking at the number of these available "rare" isn't a term I'd use).

@james2k2 3 года назад

Can we have our puppets back now please? A can imagine dad and son having some fun taking selfies....

@wofwof007 3 года назад

I miss the puppets too.

@flp322 3 года назад

Didn't that have to do with his wife needing the space to work from home due to COVID regulations?

@james2k2 3 года назад

Oooh I'm not sure! That's a pretty good reason if so.

@keithfulkerson 3 года назад

That thing prints surprisingly fast, even on normal speed. You could probably make a cool flipbook with it.

@fredbloggs5902 3 года назад

The print head is the full width of the paper , so it doesn’t need to scan across like a typewriter.

@ska042 3 года назад

Thermal printers can be really fast - some of the ones used in cash registers (of course not an entirely fair comparison since they're mostly for text) can do above 30cm a second.

@DanielLopez-up6os 3 года назад

@@ska042 aah, so thats why CVS is happy to give you a 6 foot Receipt.

@stiannobelisto573 3 года назад

All those machines should come with a Techmoan selfie test picture

@briero 3 года назад

That selfie set up is pretty much the same as how they do the membership cards in Costco 😃

@Palmtop_User 3 года назад

It actually reminds me of the photo booths at chuck e cheese They had paper print outs and even little cards (iirc they even had an area 51 card which made the rounds during the raid meme)

@DanPellegrino486 3 года назад

I was going to say, some company has to be making name badges this way and just laminating paper.

@dphoenix1 2 года назад

@@Palmtop_User I'm almost completely certain these things were used on those on-ride roller coaster picture systems at larger amusement parks, at least back in the 90s before color pictures became common. I very distinctly remember rows of these Sony machines behind the counter, same color, same little buttons and controls. You'd hand over a ridiculous amount of money, an underpaid teenager would print it out, tear it off, and stick it in one of those folded cards with art themed to the ride.

@Palmtop_User 2 года назад

@@dphoenix1 sounds about right

@bradscott2432 3 года назад

I am IT support for a hospital in Ireland and we're using these for our ultrasound machines

@karehaqt 3 года назад

Can't you just send the image files to the parents now and they can print it at home?

@ivoivanov7407 3 года назад

@@karehaqt May be, in some cases, doctors prefer to look at still image, on paper and not on the screen.

@Pawek13 3 года назад

This model (or its next iteration) is still being used! It's a staple of molecular biology labs. Whenever we dobrze photos of gel electrophoresis gels, this is the device we use to print out pictures of UV-lit gels.

@sebastianhama5624 3 года назад

we just used a box with a canon camera

@nom3nnescio 3 года назад

we have one in our lab to print agarosegel pictures too

@U014B 3 года назад

What does "dobrze" mean here? A quick Google Translate search gives meanings like "good", "right", "okay", but I don't know how any of them work in context.

@radtang9851 3 года назад

I guess it's a typo or autocorrection from the phone. I bet he meant "do" but phone corrected it to other word, totally out of context.

@FrozenHaxor 3 года назад

@@radtang9851 Correct. Autocorrect attempted to use Polish in this case.

@EpicLPer 3 года назад

If you ever get invited to some convention or other public appearance you definitely should take that camera and printer setup with you and put it somewhere for people to have a bit of a "Souvenir from Techmoan". Think that'd be a neat idea.

@ytsm 3 года назад

Used this exact thing in a post production facility back in the 90/00's. Mainly as frame grabs from 35mm rushes for making crude storyboards.

@sadiqmohamed681 3 года назад

I used to do the same thing for editing off-line. I would take frame grabs of characters in a drama or interviewees in a documentary, then stick them on a corkboard as an aid memoire. Most film transfer places had this exact model. The last time I came in contact with one was in 2005 in Kingston Hospital while having a colonoscopy! I had been diagnosed with bowel cancer, and they were taking a biopsy using n Olympus Endoscope. It had one of these attached. The remote was connected to a footswitch, so the operator could take a shot while operating the device. My surgeon put a still of the tumour in my file, and it is still there!

@Holzi24 3 года назад

Notice the rectangle with the arrow icon next to the remote jack on the back of the printer. Its the same icon as on the Giant Cassette machine. So that would have a wired remote as well

@Techmoan 3 года назад

I noticed this too while I was editing this video, so added a mention of it in the Patreon comments section for the Philips LGC video..and in the addendums in that video’s description box. A few people also directed me to the ISO standards that explain the meaning of the symbols. Since I don’t have a suitable DIN plug for any of the sockets other than the microphone it’s not something that’s ended up being an issue though.

@johnmills9360 3 года назад

I had access to one of these whilst a long way from home in the '90s . I would print from my trusty Sony handycam and fax an image back home . I guess I was making the first selfies ?

@CaptainWumbo 3 года назад

selfie hipster, I like it :D

@enjoyingthecrisis5931 3 года назад

Other than cosmetics, those things are relatively unchanged today. The one on our ward's recently replaced ultrasound machine has the same printer, but with a gloss white plastic face plate.

@ironcito1101 3 года назад

Cosmetics and I/O, I would think.

@Palmtop_User 3 года назад

Reminds me of how RS-232 serial refuses to die. Its still used in simple computer systems that dont need complex stuff despite being around since the 60s

@SkigBiggler 3 года назад

@@Palmtop_User it’s simple and standardised, and has been around forever. If you need a reliable fallback or debugging output, serial is your go to. RS232 is just the port. UART is basically the same thing.

@Palmtop_User 3 года назад

@@SkigBiggler exactly, i love working with it for those reasons. Only thing i dont like is that there ttl and legit rs-232. ttl is what youd use on like an arduino for example while rs-232 is like an actual serial port. ttl usually ranges from 0-5v while 232 is anywhere from ±3-±15v. So it often requires special chips or some transistors to go between the two

@KyoshoLP 3 года назад

I'd suggest a thermal shipping label printer. Cheaper, more of them, and they're stickers! I've used mine as a fancy labelmaker more than anything.

@coolelectronics1759 3 года назад

I just got one of those! Its a brother It didn't come with sofwares but it has serial, usb and telephone sockets on the back

@glennmagnus854 3 года назад

I used one of those for years. They were used in military drone control stations

@cpt_nordbart 3 года назад

So that's what MD really stands for

@robertschnobert9090 3 года назад

What do they use printers for? I just imagine people who are dead inside having an Xbox controller in their hands to decimate all the brown people. No printers required! 🌈

@glennmagnus854 3 года назад

@@robertschnobert9090 Collecting intelligence, most military drones are not armed because they are too small. They are used to take pictures of areas or to provide overwatch for troops on the ground.

@coolelectronics1759 3 года назад

@@cpt_nordbart thought it was megadrive still interesting though lol. I imagine probably these could also be used in some biology lab connected to a microscope or something

@Bradford_Longflap 3 года назад

'Gimme a hard copy, right there.'

@NigelDraycott 3 года назад

👍 for Blade Runner reference

@JesseSesler 3 года назад

I used to work in the entertainment industry in Toronto, and every single casting house used these connected to cheap consumer handycams to take quick headshots of actors for reference during the casting process. With so many actors coming in to audition, it was the fastest way by far to print.

@AUTISTICLYCAN 3 года назад

My goodness dude we are OLD! I remember the Fembot's. Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman. I loved that stuff! It's been 1 million years since I thought of Fembot's! Thanks for jarring my memory sir!

@ironspike171 3 года назад

These printers are even today in reseach (lab) environments quite often in use: For instance DNA electrophoresis, aka Gel-Documentation. There are even USB models out there that have beside the video in a USB in too. You get about 200 prints per roll. I used to work for a company selling those systems along with these printers. Mitsubishi is producing such video thermal printers as well.

@Alexfox01 3 года назад

Yep! I work for the Biochem department in Cambridge, and These things are a regular sight on my PAT testing rounds on the Gel Doc systems. I don't think that it was long ago that I had to PAT test a new out of the packaging one either. Oh and yeah the Mitsubishi model is near identical to the SONY one if I recall save for the USB hook up.

@johnnyboy114 3 года назад

Also here. Worked at the Sanger Institute for 19 years, predominantly on the Human Genome Project almost from the start and when we were doing very basic piecing together of the chunks of DNA we had sonically smashed up, these were the machines we used to take the photos of the electrophoresis gels we had run to separate the sizes. I have very fond memories of these machines and the stupid things we used to take pictures of for the labs amusement 🤣

@Ben-tt3cg 3 года назад

Yup, I used a Mitsubishi printer hundreds of times to print gel images.

@ironspike171 3 года назад

I want to shout out a warning for all that are looking now for a fromer gel documentaion printer. Many labs using or used the fuorescent dye „Ethidium Bromide“ to visualize the DNA bands. Unfortunately Ethidium bromide is very poisonous. Lab people handle the gels always with special gloves. Which is find. But often they handle the priters with the same gloves too. So be careful to use a surplus printer from the ditch or trash. Clean them well with gloves and lots of alcohol.

@johnnyboy114 3 года назад

@@ironspike171 agreed. Ethidium Bromide is carcinogenic and highly so and although proper lab practices of H&S end of life procedures should ensure that these machines are indeed cleaned and decontaminated before decommission, I suspect there will be a lot out there that aren’t. Good call. Wear gloves and clean thoroughly with a soap then Isopropanol to remove any residue.

@fitnesswithsteve 3 года назад

I would have been printing out a certain scene from Fast Times at Ridgemont High and hiding it under my bed if I had this as a teenager.

@robc4191 3 года назад

The scene where Spicoli orders pizza for Mr Hand's class?

@nrood3821 3 года назад

so the pic of techmoan at the 10:16 mark id love to buy it with an autograph on it. willing to pay for it also!

@carlosbroots 3 года назад

My father is an eye doctor and he used to have some of those printers on some diagnostic devices. The thermal paper rolls where quite expensive and imposible to get on that specific width other than with medical equipment suppliers, so I started to buy regular fax machine rolls at a fraction of the price and cut them to size on a band saw!

@fredbloggs5902 3 года назад

Another problem with some thermal paper is that the image fades over time, especially in strong sunlight.

@mustacheboyo 3 года назад

it's a good thing we have cameras

@smacksalad 3 года назад

My face has the same problem.

@bobblum5973 3 года назад

At work years ago someone had a strip-chart printout they needed to copy. (Similar to these thermal printers but a long strip with signal "squiggles".) They put them face down on the photocopier glass, closed the lid, and hit the button. A nice, crisp copy came out, but when they opened the cover to get the originals, they were shocked to see solid black. The light from the photocopier wiped them out! Fortunately the copies were good, so they could make second generation copies from those.

@BertGrink 3 года назад

Not to mention that if the paper gets too warm, the image will fade to black. You can test this for yourself if you hold a (lit) lighter under a supermarket receipt.

@thomaswilliams2273 3 года назад

I had a thermal printer with a Commodore 64. They will also fade quickly if you put Scotch tape on them. However, if the image totally fades over time, you can reheat the paper and get a negative image of your original. If you lose your image due to oil getting on the paper this won't help.

@mr.ponyboy5111 3 года назад

I am amazed by the speed of printing of that thing!

@MarkLawsonY3K 2 года назад

Used for many years in Obstetrical Ultrasonics. Everybody in the family got a picture of the baby. What fun we had when we let the whole family in to see the ultrasound. I could tell some babies were so loved, even before birth! After a while Grandmama used her phone camera to get a snapshot.

@FatNorthernBigot 3 года назад

Anyone else surprised at how good the print quality was? (I'm an ex ZX81 thermal printer user)

@joshuascholar3220 3 года назад

I remember Radio Shack selling their first thermal printer. The paper was the horrible silver stuff that got slightly darker when printed on. And it was being used for printing text. God that was bad!

@FatNorthernBigot 3 года назад

@@joshuascholar3220 amazing how far things have come. Having said that, I bought a photo printer twenty years after my ZX81 in 2001 and it wasn't that different from what you'd get today. (twenty years later, still. God, I'm old)

@jjryan1352 3 года назад

I think Deckard uses one with his Esper Photo Analysis machine.

@artcamp7 3 года назад

My first kid they gave us an image of him in utero using one of these. By the time we had our second kid they no longer used these. A very minor dividing line in history

@vwlssnvwls3262 3 года назад

You cannot take terrible pictures. You are far too awesome to ever look bad in a picture. Thank you again for a great, interesting video.

@davidwilliams5497 3 года назад

I love the idea that someone out there has their first picture of their baby printed out by this very machine, from when they were still in the womb, and cherish that printout as one of the most meaningful photos they ever received. And here’s Mat turning it into the world’s least useful photo booth.

@connollytunes 3 года назад

I'm absolutely amazed by the speed and quality it prints! I always thought thermal printers were underrated and could have been used for much more than Aldi receipts. So fun!

@DeLorean75 3 года назад

Brilliant, mate! Just brilliant. As always: Thanks for making these videos!

@randolphmail 3 года назад

Loved seeing this. In addition to being used in the medical field, they were also used in some newspaper photo departments. During my college years in the early '90s, I was a photo intern at The Miami Herald, and we had one of these connected to a video device we would use to preview our photos. It would reverse the negative image and allow us to do quick edits on a monitor without the need to make a contact sheet. The printer was used to kick out quick proofs of photos for reference. We would then glue the printout to the outside of an envelope that held the negative, and send that off to layout and pagination. (This was before photoshop was widely used). Thanks for making this video! Brought back some memories.

@evilbunnee6508 3 года назад

We used these back in the studio photography chains I worked for back in the 90s and early 2000s. Just like your selfie setup, we would have a security camera mounted to a Camerz Z-II 70mm film camera. The security camera would run to a computer that would store images every time the photographer triggered the camera, then later with the client, the seller could scroll through the stored images and print them off for the customer using this exact same model of printer. Much like you were saying, when we started transitioning to digital, no one was using the printers anymore, and most ended up simply being thrown away. What a blast of nostalgia I felt seeing you hook up a security cam like that!

@willyarma_uk 3 года назад

I used to work in EPOS about 20 years ago so am very used to thermal printers but I've never seen image quality like that! Its very impressive!

@briero 3 года назад

Me too. I used to work for Torex 👍

@BWPT. 3 года назад

Where I worked the reps used bluetooth Printek Mobile thermal printers, every day I had to walk through the pairing process even though we had made comprehensive instructions that even a 5 year old could follow.

@MariaEngstrom 3 года назад

This printer is still on the market in Sweden, it cost ~£1500 here. :|

@theablanca17 3 года назад

yeah, sony still makes them. Updated model. But, it looks very similar. Just more buttons and more connectors on the back, like usb ports.

@jorgepais2876 3 года назад

Back in 1992 a photo was taken to me on a supermarket during a demonstration with one of these. Maybe the camera used was a Video8 because I noticed some pixelization on it. Another fun fact was that a year later I went to a photographer to took a photo to my school id card and they were using a Video8 (probably Hi8) camera and a color printer (the paper was photographic). Back then I asked them about the pixelization and the photographer made an analogy with a TV screen - smaller screen, better picture. It was a good analogy for a photo with the size of a stamp! I still have the pictures from both ocasions!

@wearetomorrowspast.5617 3 года назад

I can't believe how quick it prints. Nice machine.

@ncw911 3 года назад

I use the exact same model everyday plugged in a "portable" ultrasonograph (more like a movable one, check for Toshiba Aplio 300 if you're curious) I use as a radiologist in an ICU. How funny it is to see it displayed here as some kind of relica.

@lindemann316 3 года назад

Yeah, i use this exact model with a Toshiba Xario 200 sonograph almost daily 😂

@aaronblair9583 3 года назад

These WILL work with standard thermal receipt paper of the correct width....had a crazy idea to start cutting new rolls of Gameboy printer paper a few years ago, built a rig to cut different widths. One of these was my"test for function" device. You can get big rolls of cheap thermal paper and not know how old they are....needed to test them!

@SeanBZA 3 года назад

Yes old thermal fax rolls are cheap, and are actually available new. Cutting is easy if you make up a slitter to do the job, or if you have a very fine pitch bandsaw blade, and feed the roll through it.

@Hawk1966 3 года назад

I worked for a packing & shipping company. Our big contracts were military with Sikorsky, Lycoming and several others. I ran the label department. Two 9-pin dot matrix printers going full bore 8 hours a day plus we had a very cool thermal printer the size of a mid-tower desktop. It printed on any rolled 4" wide label using a thermal ribbon. Print "head" was just a wire that was able to heat across any portion of its width. Speed was incredible.

@melodyofailingheart9400 Год назад

Radiologist here. Immediately recognized the thing the moment I saw it. Cool video as always. 😊😊😊

@yuseiyamoto 3 года назад

ohh thats is so much fun! i am surpised how good the prints looks

@John_Notmylastname 3 года назад

Thermal prints usually are pretty decent. Did you know that receipts are also printed thermally?

@Gunstick 3 года назад

Amusement parks use color thermal printers for their ride photos. Old ones are just SD video. Newer ones use HD. Maybe using thermal transfer style. Never seen using laser. The output quality is good, with glossy finish. And it's fast too.

@paradoxmo 3 года назад

The color ones are probably dye sub.

@zavonshadow8646 3 года назад

And some arcade games used the black/white one for photo booths.

@MarchMountain 3 года назад

I appreciate the quick translation on "skip = dumpster." Before I read it my first interpretation was more along the lines of "skipped out" such as leaving without paying a check at a restaurant, meaning the items were stolen from a hospital.

@benmurray7163 3 года назад

I love this sort of video. I can also imagine someone under the age of 25 stumbling across it and being utterly baffled, which adds to the fun. The pictures came out really well, too!

@HoZKiNZ 3 года назад

Ahh, the double FAQ episode. Classic. Also this gives me GameBoy Camera and Printer vibes.

@xjonx1 3 года назад

Although I watch most videos of yours on Roku, and Roku doesn't support chapters and chapter naming, (or cards, or links, or descriptions), I'm glad you are adding that and hope you keep doing it.

@Techmoan 3 года назад

I added chapters shortly after they were introduced. It helps people (on certain devices) to skip past the sections that they’re not interested in. I’m not sure how many take advantage of them, but they’re there if anyone needs them.

@johnnyboy114 3 года назад

I worked in genetics for 19 years and one of the things we had to do was run “gels” with DNA that had been broken up sonically, loaded into small wells at the top of the gel and separated via electrophoresis. These gels were then stained and viewed on a high powered UV light. The bands, which represented the “sizes” of the chunks of the DNA that had been pulled through the gel, would then be clearly seen. But obviously a record and something more readily handleable was needed to study the results so a top down camera was used and then the images were printed out on one of these exact machines. The images on them were so good that often it was easier to see the really small, feint, often important bands than it was to see with the naked eye. What’s more, you couldn’t and shouldn’t be exposed to the UV light we were using at the time, even WITH a mask for any prolonged period of time for risk of serious damage to eyes and skin, so these little machines were absolutely invaluable. I have fond memories of taking pictures of all sorts of stuff for the labs amusement with one of these 🤣🤣

@rickycollins4633 3 года назад

That one Star Trek scene hurt my feelings bad when I first saw it at the movies. And it still does.

@thediamonddust 3 года назад

I chuckled at the on-screen translation of 'skip'. 🤣

@Gedagnors 3 года назад

Wow! Even now it gives really great results!

@komitadjie 3 года назад

Those printouts are actually quite a lot better than I was expecting!

@daviddavidson2357 3 года назад

Reminds me of an old fax machine I have up in the attic that printed on thermal paper. Had loads of fun with that as a child as you could copy stuff. Had more fun as a teenager putting some thermal paper in the oven for 2 minutes, loading it in the fax machine, taping the ends and then faxing it on to somebody I didn't like. Infinite loop black faxing.

@michaelbedford8017 3 года назад

God! They're selling off the NHS piece by piece!

@ytsm 3 года назад

Probably in an attempt to save Hancock from any more, CCTV based embarrassment.

@10385142 3 года назад

I work in one of the hospitals in the South East and some wards are technological museums with fax machines and Windows 98 to run medical software. What's more I found a brand new copy of MS DOS in one of the drawers :D

@coolelectronics1759 3 года назад

the CDC too!

@philpheburbs 3 года назад

Woah the pictures look great!

@dimensiongamer534 3 года назад

That on screen explanation of the word skip made me laugh waaay more than it should have. Great vid!

@steviebboy69 3 года назад

Over here in Australia we call those large bin things you can get delivered to your house a "Skip" as well. I do like the Orange Telephone as well.

@cennethadameveson3715 3 года назад

The lab where I work has one of these printers on a microscope.

@theablanca17 3 года назад

yeah, sony still makes them. They have like 6 different thermal ones, even digital today. They are NOT cheap.

@rolfeb 3 года назад

Ha ha, that does look like a bit of fun. At 325 DPI, the quality is not too shabby either.

@davidbarrass 3 года назад

I used one of these in the lab to take photos of our DNA gels. I was tasked to maintain it, it was great, never gave me any trouble, and I could say "oh I can't look after that piece of equipment I already have the printer to take care of"

@dandalo 3 года назад

We have to remember that the source that you used, its the reason for this great quality images. This US$ 20 camera has better image than a camera from that time, a "pro camera" that was used for this kind of equipment cost US$ 800.

@elloellogamingpeahen 3 года назад

Love your videos pal I generally watch you for hours and hours 👍 you know your stuff very very well not seen much pc vu meters would be good to see you do a video on the coolmaster musketeer mk1 Keep the videos comming pal sending love from reading UK 🇬🇧

@1theredrooster 3 года назад

BLADERUNNER VIBES IMMEDIATELY GIMME A HARD COPY RIGHT THERE

@monkstandinglast 3 года назад

i'd imagine if you had one of these in your teens you would be king of xxx screenshots lol

@starlightela 3 года назад

I used to use these in my old research lab! We used them to print images of our DNA gels and western blots before we switched to digital lab notebooks. In the two years i worked there we only had to change out the roll once, maybe twice max despite it being used at least once a day every day. It was a neat little device!

@ABrit-bt6ce 3 года назад

Thermal prints like that fade very quickly compared to other devices so don't go saving precious moments with one.

@RhinoBlindado 3 года назад

Make sure to scan them before they fade at least!

@photonicpizza1466 3 года назад

@@RhinoBlindado It's magical just how common great quality photocopiers are nowadays. Even just 20 years ago at the start of the 2000s, they were practically reserved for office spaces, now many households have a printer with a built-in scanner that can do not just the same job, but a _better_ job.

@ianworthington2324 3 года назад

@@photonicpizza1466 You you remember the wet process ones? Stank the place out!

@negirno 3 года назад

He's a medical surplus video printer. She's a cheap surveillance camera from Aldi. They fight crime!

@Chlorate299 3 года назад

That selfie machine would be quite fun as a photo booth thing.

@rommee 3 года назад

Wow! That really is a high quality printer to the point that it doesnt even matter thats its not in colour. Brilliant! 👍

@whomee2 3 года назад

fascinating and informative as always! Thanks, Mat!

@sprint955st 3 года назад

‘Enhance 27 - 19’ Bleeep bloop bleep ‘Gimme a hard copy right there’

@RobCamp-rmc_0 3 года назад

I used one of these five years ago as a postdoc studying neuropeptides in traumatic stress. It was plugged into this sonogram machine from 1993 that we used for echocardiography.

@Steve-GM0HUU 3 года назад

👍 Very interesting, thanks. This type of thermal printer has been used in industry for decades. Compact, quiet, reliable, high duty cycle, fast, programmable interfaces of various media types, easy paper refilling and no toner or ribbon for user to be bothered with. For example tickets, baggage labels at airports, receipts, etc. Usually quite expensive when new and the thermal print heads are often expensive to replace. As you say, need to be careful you don't get one that uses expensive or impossible to source paper. Reminds me of the old Sinclair home computer printers (and others of the time). These were thermal. Quite cheap to buy but everyone was a bit miserly in terms of printing stuff out as the paper was so expensive 😄.

@CasualSpud 3 года назад

I'm going to tell my kids this was how we made memes in the 90's

@caseyholford 3 года назад

The quality of the printed stills from the films is really very pleasant to look at. I can imagine someone figuring out a way to make some pretty cool postcards out of those.

@mymomsaysimcool9650 3 года назад

I remember using the color version of this when I was a surgical nurse. We used them on anything that utilized a scope (EGD, Coloniscopy, Cholecystectomy, etc. ). The units prior to this were as big as a top loading VCR and were unbelievable slow. Before that, we used actual VCR tape and had to write time stamps in the notes of notable events or findings.

@PJSproductions97 3 года назад

That selfie setup is like a mini photobooth, it'd probably be great at parties.

@TechBaffle 3 года назад

10:15 Mat when he finds out the current price on eBay 😂

@hexagonist23 3 года назад

I hope you have a good day, comment section stranger!

@TechBaffle 3 года назад

@@hexagonist23 Haha you too!

@onedeadsaint 3 года назад

the quality looks quite good! fun video!

@fourtwentyist 3 года назад

i like this channel so much, just good ole fashion gadget porn from an era where gadgets where actually fun instead of an oppressive reality we keep in our pockets

@markrmilan 3 года назад

my first job was taking kids portraits to put on mugs, T-shirts and into keyrings etc using a colour mitsubishi dye sub medical capture printer and a sony camcorder. the quality was really fantastic and the prints i still have have lasted over 20 years. great video as always.

@TheBertybasset01 3 года назад

Used to use one in lab for gel electrophoresis of dna samples. Hard to modify hard pictures after printed avoiding manipulation of data.

@Synthetica9 3 года назад

First thought: someone should speedrun some game using only this as their way of observing the game

@Synthetica9 3 года назад

Second thought: I could hook up a raspberry pi to one of these and have it print a todo list every time you press the button

@rocketman221projects 3 года назад

@@Synthetica9 For printing text, get a thermal receipt printer. They are faster and the paper is much cheaper.

@coolelectronics1759 3 года назад

imagine the fps of physical frames thooo.

@sonkejager3305 2 года назад

I remember using this exact model in a laboratory set up to document the results of electrophoresis gels. It was the cheapest option but a true nightmare in terms of long term archiving. More like to share results in discussions with co-workers and group leaders. My thesis supervisor was really cheap- It guess it bit him in his tooshie in the end. Thanks,Matt for this unexpected stroll down Nostalgia Lane...

@saeklin 3 года назад

You made a non-portable "Kodak" camera. Neat. Also, I bet any kids in your family would LOVE this especially if you split the camera video out to the monitor so they can see what they're about to print. Heck, may as well invest in an actual ultrasound camera at this point!

@Notsram77 3 года назад

I'm surprised you didn't use a DVD of Blade Runner. Enhance. Print that off.

@dant5464 3 года назад

Unfortunately thermal prints will eventually fade, even if stored in the dark and away from excess heat (my experience anyway - maybe there's variations on the technology).

@Diabolos1 3 года назад

So the print fades due to being exposed to light? Does coating the print with some protective layer help in any way? Some spray-on lacquer or plastic film maybe?

@BuckeyeStormsProductions 3 года назад

@@Diabolos1 we have ultrasound prints from our kids in vitro, and they haven't faded significantly. They were framed, so maybe glass blocked UV?

@dant5464 3 года назад

@@BuckeyeStormsProductions I suspected UV as I've had thermally printed labels fade out after a year which were exposed to light. But also receipts stored away in case of warranty claims, in those cases faded after several years. It probably depends on the printer and the media, receipt rolls being as cheap as possible.

@m.k.8158 3 года назад

@@dant5464 Also, putting tape over the printed text will cause the text to fade out over time.

@worldcomicsreview354 3 года назад

I accidentally sprayed alcohol hand spray on my Mcdonalds order number receipt, the ink instantly vanished where the liquid touched it, but reappeared as it dried.