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by calbear81 2052 days ago
What about a physical front page that gets printed daily using something like an HP Designjet T210?

You can mount it (it's wireless) and it can print 2' wide from a roll of paper. You feed the paper into a custom frame (add margins to the PDF -> JPG script) and then add a slightly sharp cutting edge at the bottom of the frame so that every day the previous day's frontpage will come out from the bottom of the frame and you can tear it off (reuse as needed).

You would need to pay for something like a 700' roll of 24" butcher paper for $18 and ink (yes I know HP is a terrible company on ink) but it might be even more realistic!

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Add a shredder to the bottom and you have your own daily Banksy performance art.
Now you've got me thinking about how to translate this to my POS printer. I'm already grabbing the NYT front page into DayOne, I might as well get more use out of it :)
What about subscribing to the paper and having it delivered?
Getting an entire paper delivered just for the front page? What a waste!
If anyone is going to build this, that would be an awesome DIY project but hopefully you have a printer that works w/o buying one.