Wired’s new blog, “Wired Design,” recently featured a bunch of super sweet mini printers.  I just love these freaking things!!!  Super tiny and compact thermal paper printers are just about the cutest and neatest little projects out there.  The video above depicts Adafruit’s IoT Printer – a variation which prints text and several kinds of bar codes.

Just think of the possibilities:

• Print all of “On The Road” out in one continuous roll of thermal paper
• Printing customized souvenir receipts at an event
• Just once, I’d like to give a police officer a ticket
• Printing QR codes for… anything

Here’s what else really intrigues me – the entire printer is SO small that you could design and print a case for your printer.  That’s right, a printed printer case. ¹  I just know someone out there is dying to make a Stephen Colbert head that spews Stephen Colbert’s tweets.

1. While you’re at it, you could even design a carrying case for it.  A printed printer case for carrying a printer inside a casing made on a printer. [↩]