Star NX-2420 Part Deux: Color Dot Matrix Success!

Thanks man... I remember my Panasonic printer now... and I also had tractor paper - best thing ever!

ewook

I absolutely loved your music selections this episode! Very atmospheric.

Elizabeth Sullivan-Burton

What an epic episode!

Fornax Void

"Greetings Hotdog" is a wonderful phrase and should become a running inside joke.

Who doesn’t love goofy ass looking crabs

Myles MAN

You don't mess around with your coffee :) I just heat up some water and use some, I don't know what it's called in English, but frozen dry coffee :) I loved this episode. It was very nice to see you make coffee and go to the store actually :) Edit, and then I read that tons of people said this already :P

Uncleawesome

Maybe a Greetings Hot Dog scarf

LGR

Haha, seriously tempting.

LGR

Nope, but it's certainly in the same wheelhouse :)

LGR

Yeah I gotta try that!

LGR

Thanks a lot! Always trying to improve the quality and "feel" of videos bit by bit.

LGR

Yeeeeah I did that with a test print actually. Painful.

LGR

Thank you!

LGR

The worst was when you print out a super long banner like this, go to tear off the edges, and rip into the actual paper :(

Cyclone

I LOVE THE GETTING THE T-SHIRT MONTAGE

k tomkins

"An absolute win" regarding a banner... Yeah, we're in the endgame now 👍

LGR

Was that a bit of an Endgame reference I caught there?

Evangeline Domenech

Clint!! Sorry, been re-watching that Barbie game video. I had a pretty severe nostalgiagasm over this one. I had a Star 9pin colour printer back in the 90s. It was cool but I had zero software that actually could print colour. To the point where I wrote a letter to Star asking if they knew of any software that printed in colour from DOS. They never replied and I think the disappointment still lingers... somewhere deep inside. (Sending a letter, dot matrix printers and DOS are three things my children will probably never experience. I feel bad for them).

Pete Johns

ok. i LOVE the coffee montage, and the techmoan mug, and the hotdog banner. great followup video!

evistre

Off topic: Clint, this NSFW kindle book is all sorts of WTF and you might get a laugh out of the title: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UJ01WBW/ On topic: badass! I'll have to catch this later tonight.

evistre

I suspect the transfer paper is failing because it transfers when hot and dot matrix print heads are very hot. So a bit of premature transfer happening perhaps as soon as the head warms up from printing?

Lennart Sorensen

Clint the production value on your videos just keeps getting better and there's a noticeable difference on the overall tone of the video when the content hits you on the nostalgia gut. Thanks for keeping us entertained. P.s.: I know most of the comments mention this, but the montage was badass.

LJFox

Great video! I'd love to see what a printout of a photo of a face looks like because it seems to take some liberties with the colors :)

Agreed!

Brandon Mingo

Dope ass synth music, followed by a dope ass coffee montage. Yep, Patreon money well spent : D

Myles MAN

Loved the banner - good memories (our family was strictly draft mode monochrome print only but hey, still good). The sim city map is also classic. Can’t help but wonder if greetings hot dog might be the last banner ever printed on that particular model of printer, given its age and how hard it was for you to source the ribbons. If that was the last hurrah, not a bad way to go.

Joon Choi

That morning montage was great. Love the video overall too. Very fun.

Zem Hysong

The whole time you were printing the t-shirt transfers I was saying... Flip it around, please! I remember printing them myself and forgetting to flip the image and being frustrated.

Brodeur

Great video, and I ha e to say great Techmoan mug

This makes me so happy.

So, this must be one of the best LGR episodes ever. Colour dot matrix banner, coffee montage, Staples run, cool crabs. Excellent!

Adam Christensen

Did Anders do some of the music for this?

Curus Keel

What? I can print my own maps in SimCity? My mind is blown. I sense a t-shirt trend coming. Now I can sleep well and dream in colors 😁

Deckard Games

You should make that cool crab image an official lgr T-shirt, with modern printing options of course. I would buy it in a heartbeat

Zachary Outen

Love the music choices! I wonder if greetings hot dog could be incorporated into next sock design...or even a mug. Hoooot dog when there's coffee in there.

AlexPeaks

Ha, you and me both!

LGR

That print transfer looks about as good as my Fido Dido ones 30 years ago! Greetings!

Bastien Nocera

Ah, so satisfying and vindicating. I can finally sleep again!

Dinty's Hideaway

If Cool Crab became some sort of channel mascot with recurring cameos, that would not be not cool

J.R. Williams

Just about to whip up a cup myself, the mid-afternoon doldrums are hitting hard

LGR

I've got one, yeah! Though many cheeses I use end up working with differing styles of slicer due to softness or shape. That's perfect for slicing a wheel of hard Swiss though :)

LGR

Awesome to see a follow up to the two last videos! Great to get to see how the colours really pop when using new cartridges. Also, would you be interested in getting a cheese slicer? Something like this: https://bit.ly/30Br4dr (Picture: https://bit.ly/30LIBQm ) It's called osthyvel i Swedish, and it's truly handy for slicing cheese. I've watched some of your LGR Foods videos, it seemed like it could fit in there. If you don't already have one, of course.

Mark Tbom

Now I want coffee.

Alyxx the Rat

Ethiopia Tega & Tula, roasted by Summit Coffee

LGR

I used both draft and proof modes throughout the video. Draft for the first image and banner, proof for the middle two. I'll add my comments about it back into the final edit for clarification :)

LGR

It looks like you were using draft mode? There should be a quality setting in the printer driver. Your print time will increase a lot of course.

What kind of coffee did you make?

Steve Lovelace

Hope you enjoyed it sir!

LGR

A nice change of pace, personally speaking :D

LGR

ＧＲＥＥＴＩＮＧＳ！

LGR

The world has been deprived of greetings hot dogs for decades and we didn't even notice.

LGR

Ha! Might have to use that for something

LGR

LGR Caffeinates

LGR

I'm gonna keep experimenting with crab shirts! I really want one myself, but the paper keeps fighting with the print head assembly 🤨

LGR

Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZI0M9LK/

LGR

Heh, I will be curious to see the reaction. Definitely feeling the urge to include more of that kinda thing in the future: a bit of narrative context with some fun editing.

LGR

Bonus LGR Foods in the middle there

Gabi Mismash

YES! That's the best Greetings hot dogs I've seen in my whole life! And that crab transfer was so cool 😍 I am very impressed by the vibrant colors, definitely have that WOW moment watching this. I unreasonably want a cool crab t-shirt now!

Hey Clint, where did you get that monitor stand from?

I, for one, loved the "Day in the Life" segment that you stuck in the middle of the video there. Watch out, i think that is going to be a big hit with viewers once this hits the masses over on YouTube, and they will demand "MORE! MORE!"

Also - you should print a black and white banner that says "IT IS YOUR BIRTHDAY" (wink wink The Office wink wink)

aquaz

Perfect for preview https://gfycat.com/AshamedMiserlyBasil :D

aquaz

I wish more computer software nowadays allowed you to print out a greetings hot dog

ChrisFratz

🌭🌭🌭🌭

Thomas Fuchs

Success 🙌

TempleTurkey

Niceeeee! Looking forward to checking this out on my lunch break.

Tomdo