865
The open-source, DRM-free Open Printer shows off a working prototype (www.techspot.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
126 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 18 points 4 months ago (11 children)

inkjet

Virtually useless unless it supports non consumer ink cartridges or you buy chinese drop in knockoffs.

And even then only if you need to print graphics/images in high quality.

All hail laser.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 11 child comments
    •
  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    All hail laser.

    No love for the 9 pin dot matrix?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    My favorite dot matrix memory is printing a like 400 page Breath of Fire 3 strategy guide on a daisy wheel dot matrix, and it took over night to print and everyone in the house complained about the constant ditditditditditditditditdit

    edit: And the ribbon was so worn out that you needed forensic equipment to read it, but i persevered.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Bit late now, but a tiny squirt of WD-40 into the ribbon cartridge often got you another few hundred pages out of it.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    about 30 years too late, lol

    But thats gonna be one of those things thats gonna be stuck in my head for the rest of my life.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    It'll come in handy later on when you're in that government doomsday shelter and you need to print a hard copy of the nuke disarm codes on the line printer that was big enough to need a tarp as a dust cover.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    hooray my fuser has jammed, my transfer belt has stretched, toner is smeared everywhere, my printer weighs a ton.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I have wiped a toner cartridge with a paper towel and chucked thst sucker back into a ye olde HP from 20 years ago with a broken guider clip and it still prints perfectly fine.

    I wiped it because it was leaving a smudge at the edge of the paper after never cleaning the rollers for aforementioned 20 years.

    I guess I can add briefcase printer for mission impossible as a use case for inkjet lol

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •