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Open Source Printer coming before 2027 (www.opentools.studio)
submitted 19 hours ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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Open source printer with refillable ink, no bullshit, accept rolls of papers.

Finally an open source printer ! I dealt with so much stupidity with printers. it warm my heart.

I do have too much joy to practice mandatory critical thinking about the release of a new project. Lets talk about it? i am not the only one to be happy about it, i have no info about the price though :/

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[–] 78 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

In the linked survey they're talking about selling an ink kit. With that, the non-commerical license meaning nobody but them can sell spares, and them filing a patent, it's almost like they're just trying to start another printer company and just using the open source community to do advertising 🫠

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  • [–] 31 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

    I think you're misinterpreting - the thing needs ink one way or another, and the kit suggested in the image is just a standard ink refill kit. They're just asking if people want them to provide that, or if they want to get it elsewhere - I selected elsewhere.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 hours ago*

    HP 63 et HP 63 XL (US)

    HP 302 et HP 302 XL (Europe)

    HP 803 et HP 803 XL (Asie)

    And the ink they use is cheap/available internationally.

    I also think that one can refill these with regular ink bottles from amazon/aliexpress

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  • [–] 9 points 11 hours ago

    What it means though is that nobody in the community can sell upgrades to the printer, sell spare parts, or, and by far most importantly, nobody can develop a fully open source printhead for this printer to sell.

    Right now they are using a proprietary print head from a normal printer (understandably because it is by far the most complex engineering piece and is very complicated). However, an external team that wants to make an open hardware project taking on that engineering challenge with more expertise than this team will not be able to be compensated for their work if they make it specifically for this open source printer. According to my understanding of the license.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    I'm not an expert in those legal fingerprints, but i can imagine that you might need a parent even if you want to open source it, simply so nobody else can patent it. on the other hand, in right now to lazy/sleepy to read the article, so don't mind me :)

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  • [–] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    That's not how patents work. If you open source something, it will count as prior art if someone else tries to patent the same thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago

    ok, as i said I'm unfamiliar with this topic, so I'm happy about some inside.

    how do you proof that you open sourced something before somebody patented it? i mean a parent is registered at some authority. is it sufficient to refer to your, e.g., GitHub history?

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