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An open source repairable printer. (www.crowdsupply.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I stumbled across this link in the comment of another post, and thought it was super promising!

Someone mentioned something about in the US, this would be illegal due to DRM laws - not sure about the specifics of this, but regardless an open source printer seems like something we've needed for ages, as printers are something that always seem like way more of a headache then they need to be. It seems like such a simple technology that has existed for quite some time, but they are always such a pain to deal with. (Maybe it's just my bad luck with printers?)

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[–] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

This is an ink jet printer that uses HP print head / ink cartridges.. Fwiw, repairable impact printers have been around longer than computers. Think of old fashioned teleprinters. Noisy, but likely to survive the apocalypse.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Where're ya gonna get sprocket-feed fanfold paper these days, though, let alone in the apocalypse?

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