Capture your hand

A 3D printer needs ordered pen strokes, not a picture of letters. Write each character here (stylus is best), or load a scan of your samples and trace over it so the path matches how you actually write.

cap height x-height baseline descender Write on the lines. Left gray tick is the origin.

Alphabet

Green cells have at least two variants. Capture 3–5 of each letter you use, plus a few common words.

Saved variants

Scan a drawing

Photo a kid drawing, doodle, or sticker. We turn the dark ink into pen paths you can stamp onto the note — one copy, or a whole wiggly parade.

Load a photo of a drawing on plain paper. Darker marks become paths.

Stamp box

Click a stamp to select it, then place copies on Compose. Click again to delete.

Compose a note

Type what you want written. Missing letters are skipped and listed below. Common words you captured as wholes will be used instead of spelling them letter by letter.

Letter gap is the target space between ink. Pairs like AV, To, and WA slide together automatically from the stroke outlines.

Select a stamp below, then click the page to plant one. Drag to move. Fun run lays a wiggly row of copies across the lower third — like the same doodle jogging across the paper.

Printer & pen

Mount a pen in the toolhead, tape paper to the bed, and set Z so the nib just kisses the page. Home X/Y only. Watch the first run.

Origin is the top-left of the writing area in machine coordinates, after homing. Start with a dry-run, then the 20 mm square, then a short word. If firmware blocks cold motion, enable “allow cold extrusion” / M302 on Marlin.