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[–] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 14 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

[–] Bandicoot_Academic@lemmy.one 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ticket printers use a special thermosensitive paper.

[–] storm@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Thermal printer is the technical name.

[–] TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works 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