The Paper Tape Project - Paper Tape Fonts ========================================= By punching special bit patterns on paper tapes, you can "print" out text on paper tapes. The result can be used in a wide variety of ways, for example for labeling things, as unique souvenir or simply to label mass produced paper tapes. Like ordinary computer fonts (e.g. True Type Fonts), there are also many different possibilities to "paint" letters and digits on paper tapes. We have implemented a couple of fonts as perl programs. They are called quite like $ ./schrift.pl "Text we want to print out" > paper-tape.bin Thus, they usually print out the generated bit patterns to stdout. Mass punching and labeling is therefore quite simple: $ ./schrift.pl "File ABC on `date`" | cat - file.bin | ./punch To simplify this process, various punching frontens already use the font generation programs internally. By the way, the german word "schrift" means "font".