The Printer With a Floppy Drive! Sony Mavica Printer from 1999

[@stevethepocket]

Making you hook up a TV to see its interface is like a '90s version of making you pair it with your phone and install an app.

[@LGR]

Ha! True.

[@founderio]

But somehow needing a TV is still the better of the two options...

[@LGR]

@@founderio Aye, it is at least future proof from the perspective of not relying on servers and credentials

[@AmEv7fam]

Although trying to find a new TV with composite in is getting frustratingly difficult. I know, there's plenty of TVs with composite at thrift stores, but not always consistently.

[@PhAyzoN]

@@AmEv7fam There's endless ways to convert composite video into HDMI though. Everything from simple $10 garbage on Amazon to the expensive converters and scalers popular among the retro gaming community.

[@conor3663]

Hey Clint, you inspired me to grab myself a FD-90 and shoot some stuff at a recent blink-182 concert - so much fun to use. Thanks, as always, for your great content!

[@jansenart0]

That's literally spectacular. Really nice print quality, and I remember using my school library's Mavica back in the day. It was very cool.

[@okhouri]

Thank you very much for all the context and all the research that goes along with it. And then there is the process of putting it all together in an entertaining video ...

[@LGR]

My pleasure!

[@linuxstreamer8910]

love the look of the tv so square so professional

[@JessicaFEREM]

so this is basically the first version of a "game screenshot from your console" tool. incredible.

[@JessicaFEREM]

I'm sure some gamers would be exstatic to be able to post their game screenshots to the internet.

[@matchc0635]

ngl a modern counterpart of these using either SD, bluetooth or USB would be cool. A cheap printer could rail it but I could see these thing being useable if you print and sell these funny postcard with pics on them, or just keep them around in general

[@MaGioZal]

Impressive how this printer was able to do good stuff back in the 1990s (when we still heard that digital photographs and printing was not able to do things with the quality and ease of the analog process - and Kodak believed that).

[@CFM7]

That thing prints so nicely, i'd use it proper today

[@selami32]

Sony quality . They were producing more gadgets once than now.

[@rootbrian4815]

I may have seen one of those in value village before, say, about 15-20 years ago.

[@CaveyMoth]

Nobody captures our Duke..and lives.

[@steveg5122]

the FD91 takes great photos.

[@sgtjonson]

This is great. I don't have an easier way to do this in 2023. I guess print screen and then paste to software and then print, but where is fun in that

[@onezerodigits]

Finally, a eurorack update 0:32

[@KeiraLunar]

i wonder if this is how they captured the screen shot images for those PlayStation magazines back in the day ?

[@camd1552]

loved the shorts shot

[@NaoPb]

Awesome!

[@KARSONJAE56]

I totally just bought one cheap on eBay, lose, after watching this.

[@thishereanakinguy]

I have used multiple modern inkjet printers that produce inferior quality to this old beast!

[@nsf001-3]

Modern printers are designed to be junkheaps on purpose. Back in the day stuff was more expensive but at least it was rugged and functional

[@nebular-nerd]

I wonder what the max file size it candle is? You could really push the limits if you could use one of those floppy>memory stick adapters and pop a large low compression .jpg on it.

[@electric-toadstool]

Just a general question. What retro tech will you not touch? Something that you're not interested in or is just too much of a pain to work with. And since I'm here,another question 😊 What is your favorite decade of retro tech? 60s? 70s? Etc...

[@tbthegr81]

I do have a smol photoprinter that I got for free cuse it didn't have it's powersupply, maybe I should order a wallwart and a new ink-cartridge and test it out... Or maybe it's clogged on the inside and that would just be a waste of money Fun with physical photos though

[@d.s.8227]

Now this is a machine where I'd love to know: Can it play DOOM?

[@maedero05]

What about the quality of the prints ? Thermal printer prints fadd afther some time ! Superseded by a minidisc version photo camera print ?

[@JoshuaPaulKing]

Even for today's standards, I could see people enjoying those print photographs. I can't imagine enjoying that quality and immediacy back in the '90s!

[@LGR]

Thermal photo printers truly blew my mind as a youngin back then. I was utterly enamored with those Kodak Picture Kiosks which used very similar printers!

[@matthewjbauer1990]

@@LGR As someone who used one of those Mavica when they were new, I think a 1.3 mp, printing 4x6 or 3x5 photos would hold up today.

[@tschuuuls486]

You can buy battery powered dye sub printers. For example Kodak Mini 2 retro.

[@Psythik]

Look into zInk printers. They're pretty much the same thing except portable and modern!

[@MichaelEilers]

I had a 90s dye sublimation printer called a Techtronix Phaser, that used 4 (CYMK) blocks of wax "dye" to do AMAZING prints, that had the continuous tone and photo quality of the photos that Clint showed in the video. It was the size of desktop copier and smelled like burning crayons, but man did it print great looking stuff that I believe would still look decent today. It was also nearly $9000 :) but I didn't pay for it, I got it from a bankruptcy sale of a print shop for free, in exchange for making their web site (too late to save them). I did not keep it for long due to the burned crayon smell and the wax blocks and paper was killing me in supply costs.

[@1leggeddog]

One of my first jobs in the game industry was to test games. This is what we used to take screenshots if you were lucky. Otherwise, it was a digicam on a tripod aimed at the TV

[@LGR]

That's awesome.

[@electron8262]

That must have been such a fun job!

[@Lurch-Bot]

Aiptek Pwn Cam, lol.

[@JohnFekoloid]

PC didn't have Prnt Screen?

[@SirBlix]

Being able to get clean screenshots from consoles is to me the coolest part.

[@nsf001-3]

I'm pretty sure this is how gaming magazines did it in the 90s/00s. Or at least one of the ways they did it

[@himbourbanist]

I was thinking the exact same thing, they probably did this or had a pro grade device@@nsf001-3

[@Lurch-Bot]

I have a Roxio video capture device from 2004 that will do the same thing.

[@Lurch-Bot]

@@nsf001-3 The ones with a budget were probably using Sony Digital 8 Handyjobs. VGA stills would have looked pretty good printed in a '90s magazine.

[@tomyyoung2624]

Yeshing to see without TV!

[@32BitChronicles]

I'm so happy that you don't do youtube shorts

[@ChairmanMeow1]

Me too. Give me the long form LGR always!!

[@seijiamasawa2320]

yes!

[@jakematic]

Shorts are for those who just want entertainment, not knowledge

[@SC_3]

@@jakematic I wouldn't say that, necessarily. Vsauce has done really well with short-form content, all neat and educational!

[@jollygrapefruit786]

I think he should at least clip his videos and upload them as shorts. They're good for growing your channel and I want him to have as much success as possible.

[@sandrinowitschM]

I remember thinking 640*480 was a good enough resolution for digital cameras because pictures of that size looked decent on my 1024*768 monitor and appeared as roughly the size of a normal photograph.

[@sandrinowitschM]

@@franky9928 I've recently learned that the design resolution for macOS ICONS is 1024*1024. I'm imagining my old Riva TNT struggling to display more than two freaking buttons.

[@PhAyzoN]

I remember gaming magazines and demo discs back in the day boasting about "high resolution screenshots" of upcoming games. They were all 640x480!

[@Psythik]

​@@PhAyzoNTo be fair, very few games ran at 640x480 in the 90s. Most console games ran at much lower resolution - with very few games actually running at a native 480i - so 640x480 was enough to capture just about any game footage.

[@Kumimono]

I've noticed that a 640x480 is still plenty enough for your Instagram feed and such. Have few Mavica shots on mine, can't really tell they're 20 plus years old. (Well, technically. New old stock?)

[@nsf001-3]

I remember when I thought 3.5" floppies could hold 3 Megabytes because the ones I had said "3M" on them

[@xliquidflames]

My mom was a professional photographer in the late 90s. She had something similar to this. She used an expensive medium format camera for the serious photos at weddings and for portraits. But she also carried an early digital camera and a portable printer that she could use at the reception to grab photos of guests and whatnot. She could then print photos right there on the spot for people to take home. Her printer was a lot smaller than this one. I am pretty sure it was ink jet and only printed wallets and 4x6 or 5x7s.

[@MicrophonicFool]

The Polaroid Instant cameras used to fulfill that role, but your mom was ahead of the trend which is now wedding parties handing out a dozen Fuji Instax which every one passes around. All the material becoming people taking, leaving, trading or gifting some of the pics to the couple.

[@MrDuncl]

We went to EuroDisney in 1996. On the Thunder Mountain Roller Coater they had cameras capturing each pair of seats at the top of the loop. When you got off the ride you could see all the pictures on screens and if you liked yours buy a decent sized dye sub printout. Very impressive stuff for the time.

[@adammorrison9705]

Engineering Dept: "Stop showing the floppies going in backwards!" Marketing: "NEVER!"

[@nsf001-3]

How else with they know it's a floppy? 😱

[@richkawaiipikachu]

Don't forget, there's also upside-down CD'S.

[@4Wilko]

I wonder if any customers inserted their diskettes wrong because of that.

[@MicrophonicFool]

I was very disturbed by that image.

[@adammorrison9705]

@0x0fffff Yes. I saw that once. It's supposed to be impossible, but a customer managed to force it in. The motherboard was toast afterwards.

[@BuckeyeStormsProductions]

[gentle floppy disk noises, gentler jazz music] I love your captions!

[@LGR]

Thanks 😁

[@ruadeil_zabelin]

I'm so happy you make proper videos and not shorts. Theyre a true blight.

[@tomyyoung2624]

Yes computer required

[@keirthomas-bryant6116]

In the late 1990s I was working as a computer magazine journalist. I undertook a group test review of lots of colour inkjet printers, and one test was photo print quality. The ideal of saving money and time on getting "professional photo prints" was very alluring for many. In my testing I learned that, to match 35mm photo print quality, you usually had to match the manufacturer's own brand of premium photo printer paper to their own printer, and then select to print at high quality (so, usually, very slow - it could take several minutes to output). And then your print had a limited life span because, ultimately, it was just ink on paper. They were very prone to UV light damage meaning that, if you pinned one to a refrigerator (for example), light coming in from the window would slowly bleach out all the colour over the space of a year or two. Only cyan would stick around, if I recall correctly. I'm actually not sure if things are better right now. Back then, we all considered dye sublimation printing technology to be the best for photos - but it was many times the cost of the cheap inkjets that were flooding the market.

[@IgnatSolovey]

Dye sublimation technology (it's Mitsubishi ALPS originally, everyone else licensed it, including Sony and Canon) is still really good, it's the only printing technology that allows to reproduce full sRGB range in print - and considering that some, if not all, implementations include the “fifth dye”, which is an anti-UV protection layer, they are probably the longest lasting form of color photographs, apart from plasticized prints that are sandwiched between a sheet of Alubond and a sheet of UV-stable acrylic (and that costs... no... T.H.A.T. C.O.S.T.S.). That puts properly processed Kodachromes that are stored in national archives like the LOC or BNA to a third place, because plastic sheets with UV protection layer are much more stable medium than a celluloid film or even an offset paper and ink (those discolored 1960s...2000s magazines, aha). There are two problems with dye-sub prints. First, the largest format of DSPs ever available was and is 21×30 cm (only Mitsubishi and Sony did that, not Canon). Second, they are quite sensitive to dust before and during printing, Canon in particular.

[@hey_imriver]

As someone who enjoys papercrafting and tried printing a model using photo paper a few months back, they are not... I spent quite a while building the damn thing and the result looked awesome, until I noticed how the browns became greens and reds became oranges some weeks later. Tossed all of the models built with photo paper in the trash

[@NinjaSushi2]

Cool.

[@ericpullen524]

@@IgnatSolovey The largest DSP for consumer use was 21x30cm, but there were commercial ones that printed 120cm wide. They were massive, company I worked for had 2 of them at one point.

[@straightpipediesel]

@@IgnatSoloveyTektronix, which sold their printer operation to Xerox, did 12 x 18 inch (366x457 mm) dye-sub. See the Phaser 480X.

[@mazziecat]

"Stick em on your Angelfire page?" Damn, guilty as charged

[@Brogboolius_Maximus]

You know, you hear "floppy disk photo printer from the 90s" and you think it's going to be cute and antiquated, but damn if that thing doesn't put out some seriously good looking prints, and the ability to screenshot composite video sources like that is amazing. I would have used that to an irresponsible level if I had had that as a kid.

[@sjogosPT]

if i had something tike that, i would used to an irresponsible level too for sure. I would print alots of screenshots of ps1 games and dragon ball prints from tv, thats for sure.

[@orthodox_gentleman]

What making a secret Jack stash from your dad’s vhs p*rn? Lol

[@garou1911]

The mini arcades on that vintage camera legit looked like an early 90s arcade lineup on a high end Polaroid. Very cool xD

[@coondogtheman]

I'm curious on how this printer will handle a signal that has macrovision in it like from a DVD player or VCR playing a copy protected tape.

[@sjogosPT]

i think it will ignore it.

[@Glacier_Nester]

Ooo, being able to capture arbitrary input video frames is SUCH a fun feature to add on there! Neat use of the technology already prepped to print video stills!

[@grecinos2]

I have a Sony Mavica MVC-CD1000 camera that I bought circa 2000. It uses 8cm cd discs to store the images. When you take photos with it, you can hear the CD spinning up and the read/write head activating. The photo quality was exceptional for the time and still looks impressive. Paired with a good inkjet printer, it rivals film camera prints of the day. I have dozens of the 8cm discs with my photos. They are still readable to this day. Truly a nostalgic electronic device to have.

[@StarLightNow]

I honestly can't get over the quality of those photos for 1999.

[@Markimark151]

My middle school teacher had that printer for science fair projects, I used to borrow the Mavica camera for photos of growing vegetables, insert the floppy disk and printed the photo for progress reports! That saved so many students time and effort for school projects!

[@LGR]

That's a great use case!

[@Markimark151]

@@LGR saved lot of students time and from buying more film!

[@tomyyoung2624]

DO YOU WANT ME TO SAY YES? OR WHAT

[@TheSlyMouse]

Those pictures look super good. It's rare to see physical pictures of such things and of that quality. Its like a real good magazine article picture.

[@kirishima638]

I love everything about this. The aesthetic of the unit, the controls. The ASMR. 3.5 inch Floppies will never not be satisfying to use. Clunk!

[@Mrshoujo]

*style *3.5 inch

[@225Perfect]

Man I love the look of older Sony gear. Just looks so clean and advanced. If they still made stuff that looked this cool, I'd be more tempted to go with Sony.

[@eggbreakerdotexe]

I'd actually really like the look of the PS5 if it weren't so annoyingly huge.

[@JackBandicootsBunker]

@@eggbreakerdotexeI guess now with the Slim on the horizon, that appreciation might be attainable.

[@ferretyluv]

Sony cameras still look small, sleek, and cool.

[@K12machinima]

Chunky, angled, and gunmetal-grey. Classic, 90’s, Sony tech was rad, man, and it felt satisfying to use. :)

[@nsf001-3]

I love the style. Tech aesthetics peaked in the late 90s/early 00s, IMO

[@blunderingfool]

It still astounds me when we look at pictures my Grandma took in the 90s (When I was a wee baby) that you can make out fine details on the film like the covers of books or the shape of flower petals in the background.

[@LGR]

35mm film in particular is awesome. The effective resolution equivalent is larger than 4K: 5,600 x 3,620 pixels!

[@FuzzballRenakitty]

@@LGR The reason "digital remasters" are garbage on non- film media :P

[@blunderingfool]

@@LGR Oh? That explains a lot, thanks!

[@MisterZealot]

Back in '99 or '00 I had a gig using that exact Mavica ( the first one you showed) with a couple of nightclubs taking photos of peeps for their very 90s website. I recall the hassle of going around with a bunch of floppy disks. Add alcohol to the mix and you could say that was not my best body of work. LoL

[@funstuffelectronic7536]

Amazing, thoroughly done video, of a beautiful product hitting all the right buttons as you said, printing, floppies, graphics, 90's, Mavica... Just very special overall!!

[@wal]

I never had this printer but an Epson Picturemate 4x6 printer with Compact Flash card slot for prints from my Nikon Coolpix 800. It made decent prints and I seem to recell it being around $100. Also had an LCD screen. Sony's like, nah, you can hook up a TV! It's too bad the Mavica printer didn't have at least a Memory Stick slot...maybe later versions did?

[@abdelali9279]

8:53 Sony really likes their loud beeps, I thought it was my PlayStation booting up.

[@thirdpedalnirvana]

Even as a 35mm film camera enthusiast, who will regularly spend $16 for a roll of film and then $25 developing and scanning it at a lab, for a cost of $1.15 per photo, it's still crazy to me to think that just taking a picture wasn't free for so many decades. When I'm taking film pictures, I'm trying to compose art, it's not like just grabbing my phone and getting a picture for posterity. The idea that it was costly to recall images through photographs for just, the general everyday life we experience, it's crazy. Taking a photo being a free thing now makes it a shortcut for so much. Want to remember what this restaurant has on its menu? Picture. Forgot to take notes on the slide and the presenter is about to switch slides? photo. Want to record the odometer reading at the oil change you just did? photo. Your odometer hit a palendrome? photo to show your friends. If each of those cost $2 we wouldn't use them for everything like we do now.

[@nsf001-3]

I kinda miss the "1 hour photo" days. The winding, the beep. It just felt really comfy. The modern practice of tapping a screen doesn't come close to the aesthetic of those old disposable cameras But anytime snapping is pretty convenient. I bet if a functional consumer-equivalent of QR codes existed in the 90s you'd have to take a picture of the pattern, develop it, mail it to the company, and wait for a response. Even less than 10 years after I worked at Walmart they've switched from scan guns to smart phones for reading the shelf labels Tangentially related: I remember when I was really into cinematography and video editing stuff I wanted to get one of those home camera negative scanners. I'd usually just resort to a flatbed scanner though

[@ferretyluv]

Rolls of film and getting them developed were much cheaper back in the day.

[@functionatthejunction]

A simple printing alternative! Just needs a TV lol.

[@naddydatty]

The colors! Fantastic saturation and contrast. It actually looks better than current budget inkjet printers do; even when using photo paper. I'm not for sure if it says more about the Mavica printer, or the printer racket in general (which is an absolute racket).

[@MrDuncl]

Dye-sub prints are usually good. They are what the instant print kiosks in places like chemists use. I found that out when one ran out of paper when I was printing about 100 photos on it and a store assistant had to load more in. The only major difference to home printers was that the paper was on a roll

[@tsimeone]

It's same technology as what's in my ID card printer.. Bloody expensive

[@Petertronic]

Wonderful! That dye sublimation process always gives pleasing results. The Sony UP-5000 you briefly showed is an absolute beast, if you get a chance to pick one up, go for it! (I used to repair them)

[@LGR]

Yeah that's a monster that I'd find it hard to say no to! 8 1/4" x 5 3/4" prints is awesome.

[@mrb692]

13:48, That sounds like the exact same beeps a dead PS3 makes! I wonder how many other products has put a similar beeper in?

[@RemnantCult]

I bet your bro really loves these types of videos from you! Early digital photography is very cool.

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

I never get bored of this channel. And that's quite a nice achievement, I would say 😂 LGR is the GOAT

[@fragglet]

I hope you're going to do a complete Duke Nukem cherry blossom calendar for 2024 as merch

[@SomeDudeInBaltimore]

"stick em on your Angelfire". LOL Dude, you unlocked a core memory.

[@iKokomo]

So weird, the beeps on this printer sounds just like my PS4!

[@kbhasi]

Also reminded me of the PS3 beeps.

[@JCEurovisionFan1996]

When will you update LGR Foods?

[@devttyUSB0]

Very impressed by the quality of those prints!

[@johneygd]

Well let’s 1 thing to be really clear,this diskprinter along with it’s disk camera is much much better then nintendo’s gameboy printer and gameboy camera,sure it was a toy but still i just couldn’t see why nintendo did this,did they wanted to get entry level people into photography,also am stun how later games even did supported the gameboy printer since it’s quality did left alot to be desired,in fact am disappointed that nintendo never came out with a follow up of their gameboy printer,for instance they should & could,ve come with a DSI printer to print fotos from both the dsi and 3DS in color,that would,ve been great,but sadly they didn’t, BUT apart from this sony diskprinter is a must have for orgenizations and institutes and schools to print party stuff with it etc,,,😁

[@the_beefy1986]

How is it that Clint finds all these things that we didn't know we wanted to know about? (Side note: greetings from Greenville, Clint!)

[@LGR]

Greetings right back! And in this case I actually discovered it while perusing an old CompUSA catalog, the one I recently did a video about. Quite often I learn about old stuff while diving into other old stuff :)

[@caeserromero3013]

I had a Fuji thermal printer around 2005. No floppy but had USB and SD. Printed to 4x6 sheets in a feeder tray. Used it a few times but it’s sat in a cupboard since.

[@super0sonic]

It would be cool to take screenshots of games back then with this.

[@adamfloyd2152]

I would have loved to have that in the 90s! Even without using the printer part it's still cool just to take screenshots from the TV. That it can print such great images is a bonus.

[@techdistractions]

Sony marketing needs to go back in time and use your video to sell it .. I want one now 😂 In all seriousness, that video still capture is an exceptional feature. Would’ve been very useful for those who had plenty of cam corder video and wanted some picture extracts.

[@WitmerXL]

Hearing Clint's distinct yet accurate duke voice -- I am pretty sure it was him doing the duke voice on duke nukem forever online a while back.

[@mfbfreak]

That's much better quality than i expected. Would've loved to have that back in the day.

[@DengekiGamer]

Interesting, I have exactly the same Printer, but without the Mavica Branding.

[@PXAbstraction]

Any games preas outlets that thought of using these for conaile screenshot captures back in the day were playing 4D chess.

[@AmyraCarter]

5:48 Still in its' original packaging, unused. Nice find. ... This would of been cool to have, but no. Never had or used one.

[@goldenappel]

If I saw one of these without the Sony logo and with no idea what it was, I'd still know it was a Sony thingamajig. I can't point to any particular design aesthetic, but Sony devices from the 80s/90s are somehow always unmistakably Sony.

[@webluke]

I got to use a Sony Floppy camera in 2000 while in 8th grade to build the school's website. The computer teacher got me in an independent study class for the website and later hooked me up with the summer tech maintenance guys for my first "real" job. I recently got most of my old ZIP disks copied off with the photos I took, and they were not good, haha.

[@caeserromero3013]

I found a boxed complete Mavica in the redundant kit box at work in 2014.. I still have it. Still works.

[@SaintBrick]

Well this was a blast from the past. Used that Sony digital cam a bunch in Grade 7, ~2003. Sports day photography comes to mind in-particular. I don't remember any prints being made (Although it's possible). We did make a slideshow that was then presented at an assembly iirc

[@skullingtonturtle8080]

Dang, those CVP-M55 and P77 models look so much in the same aesthetic of the Nintendo PlayStation… I wonder if there’s any relation or recycling of design they did there

[@dlocknessmonsta8431]

14:21 Looks like you could capture screenshots on the ps1 long before the ps4 came out in 2013 with it's built-in share button on the controller.

[@TheGreatAtario]

"Sony Mavicas accounted for up to 40% of the entire US digital camera market at their peak"? Holy crap! I had no idea they were that popular, I thought they were fairly niche devices

[@HeyItsMaher]

3k views in 15 min for a vid about a printer with a floppy disk slot. Nice

[@raptorshinryu]

The device itself has such a fantastic aesthetic. Would look right at home on the set of some kind of retro-futurist movie.

[@vanitymirrorss]

I love how direct video capture has literally never become an obsolete selling point. I remember an ad for a Samsung phone a couple years back that touted the video quality being so good that you could capture photography quality screengrabs with a button in its video player.

[@Modderfestival]

So, when will the LGR Mavica 2024 Calender be up for sale?

[@JenniferinIllinois]

Angelfire page. 🤣🤣🤣 Haven't heard that in well, 25 years.

[@andrewgeorgelang]

As always another great video. Thanks for sharing. Ps If you ever get rid of the lamp, I'm gonna cry

[@Dukefazon]

4:26 - it is the same device they have in The Ring when Rachel visits the video editing place to print out stills from the tape! Look up the scene, it's on YT, "the ring fly scene". This is an awesome little device, pretty expensive but if I had one I'd have printed everything I had back then! I used to love taking pictures of everything with my little compact camera. 13:47 - the beeping is the same or very similar to what a PS3 does when you press the eject button but there's no disk inside :) 15:14 - this is an amazing way to take screenshots of video games, I wonder how many magazines used this (if any) for their screenshots! My mind is blown!

[@plan7a]

Interesting to hear the PS 'Beeps' with something before they were used for the PS; and they've stuck with them all these years later!🎵

[@sterlinsilver]

What a coincidence you showed this! I was just looking over the maual in my mavica (the FD-83 shown at 5:23) and out falls a paper with a list of all the accessories you could get for it and I saw this printer and thought "wow that's so cool, but how many were actually sold?" Well, heres a video on this exact device

[@krissyboo6148]

i own a mavica fd91 and fd95 and I even have the boxes and manuals for both and even some of the cables too!. I was genuinely surprised by how good the photo quality is on them. theyre such cool little cameras!

[@krissyboo6148]

also anyone else notice the sound when clint presses the print button sounds like the ps3's sound when you try to eject a disk but theres no disk in there? or was it the ps4? anyway, you know what i mean.

[@just_eirik]

Dang you’re making me want a printer like this, a modern one. Pretty sure you can get some very small and portable ones with Bluetooth.

[@LGR]

Modern portable wireless photo printers are fantastic, I've used some of the ones from Canon and Polaroid for all kinds of fun projects over the years

[@MrDuncl]

@@LGR The cartridge in your Sony looks so similar to the Canon Selphy ones that I wonder if it is the same thing. Is is four passes with the final layer being a transparent protective film ? p.s. When the cartridge is empty pull out the film and you will find you have three coloured "negatives" for each print you made,

[@marsrover001]

"Why? Why not it's awesome!" I miss this style of technology.

[@pseudotasuki]

16:45 Oh man, sticking stuff to CRTs using static. I don't know why I forgot about that.

[@AlternativeOps]

The beeps it makes sound very similar to the playstation 3 sounds when you power it on. That is awesome.

[@FluffySakii]

Seeing you talk about photo printers makes me hope you consider covering different types of Zink printers. I have an old Polaroid Pogo that still works and it's still a ton of fun to use even today. Even if it needs to be plugged into a wall due to the proprietary battery being bad

[@LGR]

Something I'd actually love to cover is the Polaroid i-Zone, which functioned as sort of a predecessor to Zink cameras. Unfortunately can't source _any_ of the film anymore and all of the old stock stuff is long expired!

[@FluffySakii]

@@LGR I had one of those and they were so much to use. My parents showed me photos I took of my family dog surrounded in the bright colored tabs a year or two ago

[@MrDuncl]

@@LGR That is the great thing about Dye-Sub. The Canon "Ink" and Paper I am currently using without any problems was originally bought in a shop that went bust 11 years ago so must be older than that.

[@someonespecial1525]

Was this a missed opportunity of printing a "Voight-Kampff test" picture?

[@gentle285]

I'm so glad you've uploaded and printed a high resolution modern image as well, to check the absolute best quality the printer can manage! Top-notch work, thank you!