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The Open Printer Is a Raspberry Pi Zero W-Powered, Fully-Open, Highly-Flexible Inkjet Printer (www.hackster.io)
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[–] 83 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Well I’ll be damned. I had just recently made a comment about how open source printers have been hard to make due to all of the challenges associated with aligning the paper. This is an absolutely genius solution to the problem! Gonna have to plan on getting one of these.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago

    Tons of 2d printer challenges.

    The ink jet head at a resolution of <50um (as opposed to 3d printing resolution of usually >200um)

    Combined with printing on many different surfaces and such: cardstock, printing paper, glossy, weights, stickers, etc...

    This project "cheated" (I mean that not in a negative way, tons of open source hardware projects use proprietary components, my own does too for now) by using a proprietary ready-mades printhead, which saves the most cost and effort of the whole machine, and is the component that causes the most issues, generally.

    I definitely want to try this out too.

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