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Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 140 points 11 months ago (2 children)

While I'd personally love to see an open color lazer printer more. (Less wasteful and more rugged) This is still fantastic! It's always been a saying of mine that modern printers are the torture devices of our time. This could go a long long way to right a lot of these wrongs. I will definitely have to check this out.

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  • [–] 40 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    While I’d personally love to see an open color lazer printer more. (Less wasteful and more rugged)

    I use a black-and-white laser printer, but if I were going to use a color laser printer, I'd like to have an open color laser printer simply because I'd like to have a printer that isn't dumping printer tracking dots into each image I print.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    How do you know which models do and dont? Print tracking dots.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots

    Specifically note the updates

    (Added 2015) Some of the documents that we previously received through FOIA suggested that all major manufacturers of color laser printers entered a secret agreement with governments to ensure that the output of those printers is forensically traceable. Although we still don't know if this is correct, or how subsequent generations of forensic tracking technologies might work, it is probably safest to assume that all modern color laser printers do include some form of tracking information that associates documents with the printer's serial number. (If any manufacturer wishes to go on record with a statement to the contrary, we'll be happy to publish that here.)

    (Added 2017) REMINDER: IT APPEARS LIKELY THAT ALL RECENT COMMERCIAL COLOR LASER PRINTERS PRINT SOME KIND OF FORENSIC TRACKING CODES, NOT NECESSARILY USING YELLOW DOTS. THIS IS TRUE WHETHER OR NOT THOSE CODES ARE VISIBLE TO THE EYE AND WHETHER OR NOT THE PRINTER MODELS ARE LISTED HERE. THIS ALSO INCLUDES THE PRINTERS THAT ARE LISTED HERE AS NOT PRODUCING YELLOW DOTS.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    The issue with color laser printers is they generally need a print head for each color iirc.

    There are LED laser printers that don't require this though

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