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Open Source Printer coming before 2027 (www.opentools.studio)
submitted 20 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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[–] 7 points 6 hours ago (13 children)

Unless you’re printing receipts in A4 width or some shit, who the hell wants to print on roll paper

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  • [–] 3 points 4 hours ago

    I would, when I'm printing out a D&D map. Taping pages together isn't the worst, but only needing to line up prints in one direction would be great.

    But it's optional, either way. Odds are I'd have sheets in most of the time and switch to roll for that, specifically, but having the option is nice, it also lets me print smaller without wasting a whole sheet.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 hours ago (9 children)

    What is actually bad about this other than it being new to you?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    Roll paper isn't ideal, proprietary cartridges are not great. I applaud the effort, but it's all the easiest parts of the printer opened while the hard parts are left to capitalism.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago (1 child)

    Roll paper in my experience hasn't been that bad, I think wanting non proprietary cartridges is not feasible at the moment and we can use ink bottles in them anyways so it doesn't seem like a big deal. Its a much better very reasonable attempt that so far nobody else has really done so its worth supporting by reason to being much better than what is available at the moment.

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  • [–] 1 point 31 minutes ago

    You can use ink bottles for a number of refills before they foul or fail; refilling is fine, but those piezo heads don't last forever. Wanting nonproprietary inkjet heads will never be feasible, which is honestly why I had discounted the whole project. An inkjet is a wrapper of barely complex tech around a super complex printead.

    It's like saying you're going to make an open source car, they going well, except the motor, you're going to need an engine out of a 1997 honda-civic to make it work.

    As long as the heads are availalbe from HP, and they don't go nuts on pricing or some soul in china is willing to sell copies it'll work. That's just not the normal far for and open device.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 hours ago* (5 children)

    It’s not new. It’s old.

    I guess none of you are old enough to remember fax machines. There’s a reason we got rid of roll paper, it fucking sucks

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

    I'm not saying it is new technology I am saying new to you, who now says you have used it before.

    What is actually bad about this? From my experience the curl is at worst a barely noticeable affect on the paper and is less of an issue if you go through paper quick, for the people that don't care you can use flat sheets for this printer as well.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 hours ago (1 child)

    Have you ever used roll paper? In what use cases did you find it equivalent or superior to flat? Any problems with curling paper, see any paper waste from the core as it runs low?

    Have you ever wrapped presents with rolled paper? Notice any issues with it? Think it would work well for a pile of documents?

    Sounds like you're the one arguing from ignorance here

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago

    Yes, I never found it superior except in the case of space saving protective conveinance, just not an issue in my experience, plus it sounds like the printer offers sheets as an option anyways. I've seen curled paper with and without coming from rolls, obviously from rolls more but its never been an issue to me. As for core waste, hopefully we are recycling our paper stack coverings and rolls.

    In my experience the curling has not been an issue with wrapping paper, I just wrap it in a way where its not an inconvenience, smaller sheet would be even easier to keep flat when its sitting on something flat and with stapled together in a corner anyways.

    No

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