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Is someone handpicking the ones to be printed or is this automated?


They're screened for content, but there is a pretty deep queue currently.


Hm. I sent one 20 minutes ago and it still hasn't appeared. I thought that if there would be a queue, there won't be this much of a delay between them. It would just print them enough time apart so they don't pile up on the belt.


With 5 thousand viewers right now, they probably have 10k+ in the queue and they are printing what,one page every 20 seconds? They could definitely speed up how fast they print though.


> and they are printing what,one page every 20 seconds

Yeah that's what I meant. If this was made for maximum throughput, the bottleneck would've been the conveyor belt stopping to show the printed page to the camera above.




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