Yes! So it's a little like that. You put inkwells of different color on a bar, it moves across the paper and mixes colors to create the image. It sprays very tiny dots of ink to form the picture.
As for how it knows what the picture is, it has to communicate with the device that took the picture. Sort of how the shellphones talk to each other. The printer has the job of figuring how to translate that picture into the tiny dots of color.
You can get away with just four different colors of ink; cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. More complicated, you add orange and green.
[ Nimona will deliver him a whole notebook of drawings in a pink pencil, with little notes about what it is and what it does. Laser-shooting crossbows, laser-shooting cannons, laser blades (that are more like gunblades), flying horseless carts, mechanical arms, a subway train. There's more mundane stuff - a coffee maker, televisions, electronic locks with digital touchpads, computers, blow torch, power saw (it's a weird collection since she has no idea what all he might even have knowledge of).
Every page has a pink Nimona animal with a text bubble that describes the device as best she can. ]
[Good Greagor, Nimona this is a lot of stuff??? A lot of it also going over his head??? But it does also intrigue him, so he will take the notebook happily and we'll see what comes of it!!]
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Don't suppose you know of how these "printers" are designed where you're from?
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Have you been introduced to a typewriter yet? Surely this world has those somewhere.
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As for how it knows what the picture is, it has to communicate with the device that took the picture. Sort of how the shellphones talk to each other. The printer has the job of figuring how to translate that picture into the tiny dots of color.
You can get away with just four different colors of ink; cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. More complicated, you add orange and green.
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And it works just like that? That really is quite the invention, and I can see how it would be useful.
[.............Hm.]
This may be outside my area of current expertise, but I could still look into it.
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[ Nimona plops her chin into her hand, eyes alight with excitement. ]
Outsourcing, I like it. I just thought I'd see if you were interested in trying your hand at making it.
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Still, if you could perhaps send me a few more drawings so I can have better visual idea, that will help greatly.
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Don't worry, I'm great at drawing! You'll have Nimona pinkprints in no time.
[ Get it? Because she's pink and her drawings are going to be in pink. ]
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Even if not, they can bring some inspiration either way. So I'll be looking forward to it.
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[ Nimona will deliver him a whole notebook of drawings in a pink pencil, with little notes about what it is and what it does. Laser-shooting crossbows, laser-shooting cannons, laser blades (that are more like gunblades), flying horseless carts, mechanical arms, a subway train. There's more mundane stuff - a coffee maker, televisions, electronic locks with digital touchpads, computers, blow torch, power saw (it's a weird collection since she has no idea what all he might even have knowledge of).
Every page has a pink Nimona animal with a text bubble that describes the device as best she can. ]
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