content: im calling bullshit on this.  OK, I'll call BS on your BS.  ;)    An image search will show lots of similar images for "rca facsimile receiver" or "1930's facsimile printer".   So this was a 'thing', at least in terms of prototype or conceptual product.   I don't believe it was more than that, but that still doesn't mean it didn't exist.    The facimile has been around since the late 1800's.   This is no different from that basic concept.      the first computer wasn't around until the mid 1940s.   Computation is hard.   Turning analog signals into marks on a paper is comparatively easy.   Think of this as more of a record player (100% analog) and not a digital computer.     The "machine" itself is as large a entire radio was in that time.   Don't conflate the large "household radio" style boxes with the actual size of the radio.  I'm old enough to remember my grandparents having a large radio ... I don't remember when it was made, but I  do remember ... the electronics were actually much smaller.    Here is a smaller one from the 1920's - 1930's..      Anything of xerox quality wasn't invented for another decade and no other machine that could print in the variety that a newspaper would require is that small.  Here is the best picture can find of the printer ... and another picture here.  But, 'printer' is the wrong word.  This isn't a printer.  This is an analog scribe where analog signals are moving the scribe back / forth. BUT ... you have a correct point here.   I'm sure the quality was crap, and I doubt it could scribe more than a page without running into ink problems.   My guess is that this was never more than a proof of concept / demo because the printing scribe was never functional enough for a consumer product.  (TBH, I see the hardest part of this project would be getting a consistent ink delivery from the scribe...) Supposedly, here is the article that corresponds to that picture.   This article suggests 15 minutes to scribe one page.