• Almrond@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 hours ago

    You will probably be best served with an industrial label printer, I used one while working in a grocery store to make tags. They come in toner varieties, so no thermal paper issues, and they are made to be portable. That being said, they are not at all cheap or simple. You are wanting to look into two companies, Zebra and Symbol, specifically at their mobile printers.

    https://www.zebra.com/us/en/products/printers/mobile.html?page=1

    To be fair, what you are asking for is nigh impossible without going thermal, and the reason can be summed up by one question: Where do you plan on putting the ink?

  • Boozilla@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    18·
    2 days ago

    The Brother PocketJet series of printers might have a model you like. I have never used one of the PJ printers, but I’ve had good experiences with other Brother printers.

    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      291·
      2 days ago

      Just fyi those are thermal printers, so you’ll have to buy the right paper that has the ink inside (like receipts). Small and portable is a perfect application of thermal printing, as long as don’t need higher resolution for photos

      • AppearanceBoring9229@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        13·
        2 days ago

        Altough termal prints seem to fade over time, it seems that his use case is to add images to his notebooks. So i don’t think that would be a good idea unless the plan is to throw it away at the end of the course

        • Tangent5280@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          2 days ago

          Make a book of notes from a variety of sources, lectures and references just in time for it all to fade right before the semester exams.

  • loie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    Every printer I can find is either formatted for A4/USA Letter, or little photo printers that probably require proprietary software which I doubt would work with regular text. I know some of those even require proprietary photo paper modules, which is why I gave up and never bought one.

    I had a Canon ip100 years ago, I can recommend it and they still make a newer one, but it looks waaay bigger than your target size. Good luck

      • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
        30·
        2 days ago

        Back in my day we had to get our Internet at the village Internet well. I remember the dialup modem noises it made as you pulled the bucket up.

        • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
          7·
          2 days ago

          Actually pretty close to how it was.

          People on the radio keep talking about this revolutionary information superhighway which sounds grand but no one you know has an internet connection but you read in the newspaper that in a town nearby there is one in a public library. You travel there and find a single computer. There are no instructions and none of the staff know how it works. When you ask to see “the internet” they show you an icon to click and leave you to it. You click it, strange noises happen for a bit then stop and nothing happens, the computer seems frozen. Maybe you broke it but then literally 10 minutes later it un-freezes and you see a list on the screen:

          • alt.binaries.mom
          • alt.binaries.misc
          • alt.binaries.warez
          • alt.binaries.etc
          • alt.binaries.warez.flightsim
          • and so on, hundreds of them
          • comp.lang.c
          • comp.lang.perl
          • comp.lang.prolog
          • blah blah gibberish

          Ok none of that sounds like an “information superhighway” so close the window and go back home.

        • Scratch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          6·
          2 days ago

          Fancy pants. The only time I got online to check my emails was when the travelling bitwarden came around, usually in the spring. Unless the winter was hard and the pass was blocked.

    • Allah@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      112·
      2 days ago

      integrate it into a laptop so that i can print my notes and add it to my note book where i take handwritten notes (it’s size is also A3) while i am at work or class

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    81·
    2 days ago

    Just to be sure that this isn’t driven by misunderstanding, do you specifically require a smaller printer, or do you simply want to be able to print on A5 paper? Are you sure that a mini printer that can print on US Letter or A4 can’t print on A5?

    I haven’t used a mini printer, but I think that all of the traditional printers that I’ve used can handle smaller paper – the paper size is just a maximum that the feed system can handle. I’d assume that getting a larger-format mini printer will probably also be capable of doing A5.