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secondhand Sinclair ZX Printer thermal printer

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Sinclair printer

It is the Sinclair ZX Printer, a special thermal printer released in 1981 for the legendary home computers Sinclair ZX81 and ZX Spectrum.
Key features:
Printing technology: It does not use ink or ribbon, but burns (with two small pins) the surface of a special silver-coated paper (aluminised paper) to reveal the black substrate underneath.
Connection: It connected directly to the bus expansion (edge connector) at the back of the computer, as shown by the plug in the photo.
Paper: It used rolls of special metallic paper, which often showed wear or lost its texture over the decades.
This is a classic and quite popular piece of vintage technology for Sinclair collectors.