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I thought this was a genius idea. I wanted to have one for myself.<p>So I&#x27;ve been trying to do a &quot;journal printer&quot; a few years now, using the Chinese mass produced version of the diy pen plotter.<p>The goal is simple, to &quot;print&quot; text to an arbitrary piece of paper inside a journal, with an arbitrary font and size. Perhaps a future stretch goal would be to ad basic line art printing skills.<p>Why? So I can copy to permanent pages dozens of 2fa codes, car vins, whatever I want to capture in digital form and have it persisted in analog form in a known volume of works that is much less likely to be lost vs a single piece of paper.<p>Couple that with dictation and a handwriting font and I can write an entire letter using on the right voice, and yet have the results come out looking like the entire letter was handwritten, or at least a neater handwriting than I can actually produce. One copy goes in the journal, one copy goes on a single sheet of paper to be mailed.<p>So far I have found that it is incredibly difficult to make a pen plotter draw arbitrary text files or anything more than a single image with the basic software that came with the pain Potter I have.<p>I&#x27;m not certain if buying a nicer pen plotter would make this process easier or not, but frankly I haven&#x27;t seen anyone else trying to do when I&#x27;m trying to do, they seem to want to make random line fractals or arbitrary images, which is fine but just not my use case.