The OpenPrinter project (see the CrowdSupply project’s page) aims to create an open source repairable printer. It has some interesting features.
I was starting to believe the project was dead but they gave some news on their progress today : https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer/updates/progress-update-and-details-about-our-nomination-for-a-french-design-award.
I post it here since the project is lead by french people and would be an alternative to many printer manufacturer.
While I like the idea of an open source printer, there’s just no world in which I ever buy another inkjet printer. I print way too infrequently.
There’s something about supporting something even if you have no personal use of it.
So yeah I to don’t plan to use one, but I support the hell out of anything that busts the balls of big, entrenched and enshittyfied big tech.
Agree, I really don’t need a printer at all, but I’m still rooting for the project to succeed
Sometimes technological advancements aren’t necessarily progress. I may be wrong, but print heads clogging was less frequent and easier to fix when we didn’t have picoliter droplets.