I love my Dymotape. It's simple, sensible, easy to operate, and I use it a lot, but I would also like another version that creates a totally non-sensible output. I believe that Dymoglyphics satisfies this need.
Instead of clear instructions like "please close after use" etc, you can now use the Dymoglyphics machine to print out lines of total gibberish. This is because instead of the usual alphabetic and numerals, the Dymoglyphics input wheel displays a series of squiggles, broken lines and various other glyphs that convey absolutely no meaning.
Using the Dymoglyphics is no different in mechanical terms than using a "normal" Dymotape, except for the totally random selection of the symbols to be printed out.-- xenzag, Oct 20 2021 Dymo Lable Maker https://www.homebar...ga-label-maker.aspx [xenzag, Oct 20 2021] all kinds of characters https://www.labelci...n-the-dymo-letratag [xandram, Oct 20 2021] Alternatively you could offer the Dymotape to a young child, who will offer you large amounts of non-sensible output and giggles (not squiggles) until the machine runs out of tape.-- Condiment, Oct 20 2021 Presumably the input wheel is made of plastic? So if you disassembled the machine and found the wheel part that presses up from behind the tape, which has the raised letter forms on, you could take a small very sharp chisel and pare away part of each letter. Then you would have meaningless fragments of line and curve left behind.-- pocmloc, Oct 20 2021 More useful would be a replacement Dymo disk with solid, raised squares for each letter on the 'wheel'. Then, the user could carefully carve or Dremel each letter into the exact shape they wanted.-- hippo, Oct 20 2021 This would even work if the other side that shows the letters was also blank so you could make your own hieroglyphics on that too, which additionally don't correspond to what's being printed out.-- xenzag, Oct 20 2021 I'm a bit surprised these things still exist. I remember being fascinated by my Dad's. If you can disassemble it, maybe it would be possible to 3D print the parts. Is it just one wheel or is there a matching reverse die wheel?
Interesting project actually. Wouldn't be desperately cheap, or easy but seems feasible. How much do you want it?-- Loris, Oct 20 2021 The labelling machine that inspired the shape of the original Starship Enterprise. (see link) Instead of photon torpedoes, it fired out a long length of tape with the words "DIE CLINGON SPACE VARMITS" (printed in white letters on a red background)-- xenzag, Oct 20 2021 I found a Dymo that makes all kind of characters, but still Printing you out a croissant because it’s a great idea! All the annos present great ideas also.-- xandram, Oct 20 2021 Bun only if it includes the Eye of Horus that I can apply to random objects that I find in the street.
That could be a good gag. Eyes of Horus tagged onto random locations just outside of mental hospital wards...-- RayfordSteele, Oct 20 2021 //I found a Dymo that makes all kind of characters//
I think this might be a printer rather than an embosser. If you just want to print symbols on labels, there's any number of options. I've had a label printer with many symbols for many years.
Looking around their website, for a while I wasn't sure Dymo still make label embossers (except for a specialist metal embosser).But they do list it, it's just not visible directly through the front page.-- Loris, Oct 21 2021 I'm putting the Dymo metal tape embosser on my wish list.-- xenzag, Oct 21 2021 //I'm putting the Dymo metal tape embosser on my wish list.//
I know, right? It's magnificent.-- Loris, Oct 21 2021 random, halfbakery