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I ordered a gorgeous #lateart of #peppercarrot from @davidrevoy at Reissue Cafe in Tokyo.

It also felt cool that I was probably one of the only customers asking to reproduce a drawing they were formally allowed to use thanks to #CreativeCommons ❤️

A cute late art of Pepper from Pepper&Carrot holding ballons in its paws.
😍 WOAH! Amazing! Thanks for sharing.

How did they do this? Chocolate powder jet printer?

In Dublin, in the Storehouse of Guinness, they have a malt jet printer to print any graphics, especially also your photo, on the foam of the beer (they call this "Stoutie". See

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-September-2022/

@till I'm pretty sure it was done by hand, with a little stick and a picture for reference 🙂
@till I think (even , I'm pretty sure) the reference was https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/artworks__2018-11-19_thank-you-patreon-day_by-David-Revoy.html :blobcatheart:
@till it was! Their process is to have you show a picture on your phone, then they take a picture of it with their phone 😅 So this part is also pretty much handmade in some way 🙃

chocolate powder (or whatever) printers actually exist, I have seen one in the #Wien Mitte the Mall shopping center 5 (walking) minutes from my home! On a #Nespresso booth which is there this week for a launch of a new machine. The printer seems to be the same model as the one in the Storehouse in Dublin, but print quality on beer seems to be better than on Cappuccino...

#OpenPrinting #Guinness #Vienna

Web site of the printer's manufacturer, Ripples: https://www.drinkripples.com/

Both in the Storehouse and at Nespresso they use a Ripples ...

lp -d ripples -o media-type=cappuccino ...

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@till Thanks for the link! I was curious of the price and $2,100.00 😮 Ok, it's really for big companies.
@legoktm do I just need to update the alt text ? I added a "Rémi Dupré, CC BY-SA" mention in EXIF metadata but Mastodon legitimately trims them.
@legoktm Very cool for the license, thanks! :blobcatheart: (I discovered it today while re-reading the thread). I added the picture in the fan-art gallery : https://www.peppercarrot.com/fr/viewer/fan-art__2023-08-26_Carrot-Late-Art_by_Reissue-Cafe-in-Tokyo-CCBYSA-photo-from-R%C3%A9mi-Dupr%C3%A9.html