• @[email protected]
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    621 year ago

    Why nobody has made an open source ink jet printer design like reprap, I will never understand. The printer industry seems primed for disruption with all their bullshit and their half century old technology.

    • RQG
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      201 year ago

      My guess. They couldn’t get the printer to work. My 3D printer has a lower problem count than my ink jet regular printed at this point.

    • @mvirts
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      71 year ago

      Hmmm we don’t need to build a new printer, just new firmware. More like ddwrt or tomato

    • @Coreidan
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      41 year ago

      Right? Why buy a paper printer for less than $100 when you can spend $2000 on a 3D printer + materials and time spent learning and fucking up! Wish I thought of that!

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Probably because they wouldn’t be as profitable.

      HP could sell like a tenth the printers and still make more money

    • @satans_crackpipe
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      01 year ago

      Ya, the abacus industry is also ripe for disruption. Legacy industries would love your pro insight.