{"guid":"c0cfc01a-20e3-5269-bda4-6bd9d14b0686","title":"From Printer Dust Till Graphics Dawn","subtitle":null,"slug":"lgm25-upstream-2025-83663-from-printer-dust-till-graphics-dawn","link":"https://pretalx.c3voc.de/lgm25-upstream-2025/talk/621783192/","description":"In this presentation, we partly follow this year's topic \"RE:imagination\"\nand will explore old but not old-fashioned printer control languages such\nas HP-GL (1970s and 1980s) and PostScript (1980s) and device-specific commands\nfor dot matrix printers (1980s) to better understand how we relate to printers\nand printing today. What can we learn from these languages from current\ngraphic practices and perspectives? What context were these languages\ndeveloped in? Which aesthetics can be created with them today and which\ntools are needed to do so? How can the sharing culture of the FLOSS/LGM\ncommunity be applied to such old \"closed source\" devices? This artistic,\nmedia archeological, and auto-ethnographic research is part of the\nMaster Experimental Publishing (XPUB) in Rotterdam, where we, students and\nteachers, studied these languages together in the first 3 months of this\nyear on the most obsolete and almost discarded printing devices of our university.\n\nExpect a presentation about frustrations with serial connections, dust removal\nwith compressed air, porous plastic that disintegrates into small pieces,\nglitch aesthetic with PostScript and the practice of working within the obstacles\nof dying devices. Watch out for undead pen plotters \u0026 printers and their\nobscure languages!\n\nLicensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","original_language":"eng","persons":["XPUB","Manetta Berends","Joseph Knierzinger"],"tags":["83663","2025","lgm2025","main","lgm2025-eng","Day 3"],"view_count":80,"promoted":false,"date":"2025-05-30T17:25:00.000+02:00","release_date":"2025-05-30T00:00:00.000+02:00","updated_at":"2026-04-19T15:30:05.884+02:00","length":1207,"duration":1207,"thumb_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/lgm/2025/83663-c0cfc01a-20e3-5269-bda4-6bd9d14b0686.jpg","poster_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/lgm/2025/83663-c0cfc01a-20e3-5269-bda4-6bd9d14b0686_preview.jpg","timeline_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/lgm/2025/83663-c0cfc01a-20e3-5269-bda4-6bd9d14b0686.timeline.jpg","thumbnails_url":"https://static.media.ccc.de/media/events/lgm/2025/83663-c0cfc01a-20e3-5269-bda4-6bd9d14b0686.thumbnails.vtt","frontend_link":"https://media.ccc.de/v/lgm25-upstream-2025-83663-from-printer-dust-till-graphics-dawn","url":"https://media.ccc.de/public/events/c0cfc01a-20e3-5269-bda4-6bd9d14b0686","conference_title":"Libre Graphics Meeting 2025 ","conference_url":"https://media.ccc.de/public/conferences/lgm2025","related":[],"recordings":[{"size":11,"length":1207,"mime_type":"audio/opus","language":"eng","filename":"lgm2025-83663-eng-From_Printer_Dust_Till_Graphics_Dawn_opus.opus","state":"new","folder":"opus","high_quality":false,"width":0,"height":0,"updated_at":"2025-05-30T19:24:07.258+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/lgm/2025/opus/lgm2025-83663-eng-From_Printer_Dust_Till_Graphics_Dawn_opus.opus","url":"https://media.ccc.de/public/recordings/87738","event_url":"https://media.ccc.de/public/events/c0cfc01a-20e3-5269-bda4-6bd9d14b0686","conference_url":"https://media.ccc.de/public/conferences/lgm2025"},{"size":18,"length":1207,"mime_type":"audio/mpeg","language":"eng","filename":"lgm2025-83663-eng-From_Printer_Dust_Till_Graphics_Dawn_mp3.mp3","state":"new","folder":"mp3","high_quality":false,"width":0,"height":0,"updated_at":"2025-05-30T19:02:01.124+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/lgm/2025/mp3/lgm2025-83663-eng-From_Printer_Dust_Till_Graphics_Dawn_mp3.mp3","url":"https://media.ccc.de/public/recordings/87733","event_url":"https://media.ccc.de/public/events/c0cfc01a-20e3-5269-bda4-6bd9d14b0686","conference_url":"https://media.ccc.de/public/conferences/lgm2025"},{"size":58,"length":1207,"mime_type":"video/webm","language":"eng","filename":"lgm2025-83663-eng-From_Printer_Dust_Till_Graphics_Dawn_webm-sd.webm","state":"new","folder":"webm-sd","high_quality":false,"width":720,"height":576,"updated_at":"2025-05-30T19:46:51.183+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/lgm/2025/webm-sd/lgm2025-83663-eng-From_Printer_Dust_Till_Graphics_Dawn_webm-sd.webm","url":"https://media.ccc.de/public/recordings/87743","event_url":"https://media.ccc.de/public/events/c0cfc01a-20e3-5269-bda4-6bd9d14b0686","conference_url":"https://media.ccc.de/public/conferences/lgm2025"},{"size":203,"length":1207,"mime_type":"video/webm","language":"eng","filename":"lgm2025-83663-eng-From_Printer_Dust_Till_Graphics_Dawn_webm-hd.webm","state":"new","folder":"webm-hd","high_quality":true,"width":1920,"height":1080,"updated_at":"2025-05-30T19:28:06.499+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/lgm/2025/webm-hd/lgm2025-83663-eng-From_Printer_Dust_Till_Graphics_Dawn_webm-hd.webm","url":"https://media.ccc.de/public/recordings/87740","event_url":"https://media.ccc.de/public/events/c0cfc01a-20e3-5269-bda4-6bd9d14b0686","conference_url":"https://media.ccc.de/public/conferences/lgm2025"},{"size":48,"length":1207,"mime_type":"video/mp4","language":"eng","filename":"lgm2025-83663-eng-From_Printer_Dust_Till_Graphics_Dawn_sd.mp4","state":"new","folder":"h264-sd","high_quality":false,"width":720,"height":576,"updated_at":"2025-05-30T19:01:57.401+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/lgm/2025/h264-sd/lgm2025-83663-eng-From_Printer_Dust_Till_Graphics_Dawn_sd.mp4","url":"https://media.ccc.de/public/recordings/87732","event_url":"https://media.ccc.de/public/events/c0cfc01a-20e3-5269-bda4-6bd9d14b0686","conference_url":"https://media.ccc.de/public/conferences/lgm2025"},{"size":184,"length":1207,"mime_type":"video/mp4","language":"eng","filename":"lgm2025-83663-eng-From_Printer_Dust_Till_Graphics_Dawn_hd.mp4","state":"new","folder":"h264-hd","high_quality":true,"width":1920,"height":1080,"updated_at":"2025-05-30T18:58:55.389+02:00","recording_url":"https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/lgm/2025/h264-hd/lgm2025-83663-eng-From_Printer_Dust_Till_Graphics_Dawn_hd.mp4","url":"https://media.ccc.de/public/recordings/87731","event_url":"https://media.ccc.de/public/events/c0cfc01a-20e3-5269-bda4-6bd9d14b0686","conference_url":"https://media.ccc.de/public/conferences/lgm2025"}]}