[amanvir_]

Hey, I'm the creator of Guten!

Thank you, OP, for posting this, and thanks to the community for all your support!

To answer some common questions/comments/concerns:

- Totally agree with the sentiment regarding screens being a big problem in today's day and age. The main reason I wanted to make Guten was so that I could start my day off reading something on paper instead of staring at my phone. It also helps that you can't doomscroll on a receipt ;)

- I also love Little Printer - it seemed like such a cool product, but I unfortunately never had the chance to purchase one before it got discontinued. This is my attempt to bring back some of the functionalities in Little Printer that I'd find most useful in my day-to-day.

- BPA in thermal paper was a concern of mine as well, but I thankfully found some BPA-free thermal paper on Amazon!

[Aloha]

Epson still makes a two color impact printer as well in this form factor.

https://epson.com/For-Work/POS-System-Devices/POS-Printers/T...

I'd be very interested in a "supply your own printer" version of this as well - either using these two color printers or thermal.

I suspect there isnt a ton of money to be made in selling printers, but rather the aggregation services needed to drive it. Let people buy a commodity printers, or a variety of them - if you use CUPS as an abstraction layer, you can basically run anything, and the CUPS turns the actual output device into an abstraction.

[fy20]

You can get used impact printers fairly cheaply off eBay. They still have a use case in restaurant kitchens - where heat doesn't play nicely with thermal paper, and the noise alerts you to a new order. In Europe where fiscal printers are becoming the norm, it's usually cheaper to buy a new printer than repair and recertify it, if it breaks.

Most receipt printers support the ESC/POS protocol, so an abstraction isn't really needed.

[afandian]

A dot matrix at 7am would also solve another problem I have.

[fmajid]

French company Exacompta makes a line of BPA-free and sustainable thermal receipt paper: https://www.exacompta.com/en/recherche?search=Thermal The EU banned BPA in receipt paper since 2020, so any European supplier should work.

[haarts]

What? That's fantastic news! I've been uncomfortable handling receipts ever since (a long time ago) I learned about BPAs in them.

[CarRamrod]

>BPA in thermal paper was a concern of mine as well, but I thankfully found some BPA-free thermal paper on Amazon!

Cheers to that. A note about buying BPA-free thermal paper on the site might be nice, especially for those who plan to have children interact with your project.

[fmajid]

The EU banned BPA in receipt paper 5 years ago. French firm Exacompta makes good options in blue and standard white: https://www.exacompta.com/en/recherche?search=Thermal

[nakedrobot2]

Yeah it's the bpa more than the waste that would bother me.

Honest question, isn't the bpa free paper just using something else than bpa that is unregulated and potentially even worse?

[aziaziazi]

Depends what you mean by worse: ink is a big problem for recycling paper (along polymer-filmed "papers"). Thermal ink isn’t an exception and contrary to other printer types, it need to cover the whole page for the printer to work.

I don’t think it’s a major health problem if you don’t consume your daily newspaper after reading.