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[houseofkraft]

Hi Guys!

I know about printers and such how they can print text but i was wondering "Can they print images too?"

Can printers print images?

Thank You!

[KingofGamesYami]

Not easily. IIRC, you can only use one color of ink at a time.

[Lupus590]

Printing pictures with printers is much like displaying pictures on screens. Both only support text and backgrounds for the 'text cell'.

See below

Edited by Lupus590, 24 September 2016 - 07:11 PM.

[Lyqyd]

Printers do not allow you to change the background color, only the text color.

[Bomb Bloke]

See, ComputerCraft displays can only show text, and the same is true for printers. Images shown on a CC monitor are usually just coloured spaces (you can change the foreground and background colours of each character you write), but all spaces you send to a printer come out white...

The expanded character set available under MC1.8+ somewhat makes up for this - characters 8, 127, 143 or 159 could be used to create somewhat acceptable looking images. Under earlier builds, I suppose @ symbols would probably look best, I guess?

[TheRockettek]

What would be helpful if there was a full character that you could use as pixels on a printer.