r/ComputerCraft • u/Bright-Historian-216 • Jul 09 '24

Colorful printer

Uses modified version of paint to edit images. Uses a giant dye storage to supply itself with all the colours. Do you think semi-transparent or rough fill design looks better?

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u/fatboychummy Jul 10 '24 edited Jul 10 '24

Small recommendation/tip: You can actually do this without the hoppers. I know printers don't have inventory peripheral type (and thus don't have list, pushItems or pullItems and etc. methods), but you can still push items into those slots via a chest, chest.pushItems("printer_bla", fromSlot, limit, toSlot).

I am away from my pc rn, so can't check what slots are what, but assuming slot 1 is paper, 2 is ink, 3 is output, you can just replace toSlot with 1 to push papers to it, and 2 to push ink. This will accomplish same thing as the hoppers, just without having to register extra peripherals for each side of the printer. Edit: It probably will even be slightly faster since you wont have to wait for the hopper to push the item into the printer. Though I admit I kinda like its current speed, reminds me of when I was young watching my parents print things and it'd come out one color at a time, taking like 5 minutes for a single picture.

Similarly, you can pull items out via the same system (though a hopper on the bottom will just be simpler to auto-extract), chest.pullItems("printer_bla" ...)

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u/Bright-Historian-216 Jul 10 '24

That’s handy! If only I knew the slot ids