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Just a questions, are such thermal printers useful for home users? I find them quite interesting since they are fast. They could make sense if one just wants to print a tiny snippet of information like a shopping list, a street adress, or a password, and one does not want to fire up a laser printer and print a whole A4 page.
(Thinking about that, passwords are an interesting use case... often a paper copy makes sense and the copy needs to match exactly.)