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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[–] naught101@lemmy.world 31 points 17 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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[–] Starkon@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 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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[–] JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net 10 points 12 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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