Two abandoned printers, observing the world around them. The printers are connected to each other using a long sheet of paper creating an infinite loop. Both printers are modified. One printer makes a mark every time it notices someone passing, and the other printer erases the marks again.
What started as the ambition to create my own pen plotter; a dream that changed due to budget reasons (stepper motors are expensive) and the fact that I kept finding orphan printers everywhere, resulted in a series of modified printers. Some printers are in mint condition, others are stripped to the bare minimum.
All printers are time-based. Instead of being able to draw lines for a specified amount of pixels, points, or centimeters, the printhead and paper feeder move for a set amount of seconds. As the traveled distance is dependent on the speed of the motor, and therefore the amount of voltage left in the battery, no line created by these machines is the same. Or controllable.
