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The OpenPrinter project (see the CrowdSupply project’s page) aims to create an open source repairable printer. It has some interesting features.
I was starting to believe the project was dead but they gave some news on their progress today : https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer/updates/progress-update-and-details-about-our-nomination-for-a-french-design-award.
I post it here since the project is lead by french people and would be an alternative to many printer manufacturer.



I feel like it shouldn’t be impossible to reverse engineer and make a FOSS firmware for laser printers. The number of platforms and chipsets used should be somewhat limited.
But then again I know fuck about shit when it comes to writing firmware.
Any one perhaps but lasers are decades old and so we are talking hundreds of different chipsets as things go obsolete. Maybe thousands. Manufacturers don’t say what chipset your printer has and may not change the model number if the replacement has the same features.