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I don't know why it would make sense, even (apart from having fun doing it). We do not print books at home even though we all have printers, we use print shops

• vidarh 6y ago
  We do not print books, but we do print plenty of photos and documents and newsletters that it'd take a professional photo lab or large-scale offset printers to print just a few decades ago.
  • oblio 6y ago
    The market for people home printing photos and documents and newsletter is probably 1 million times bigger than the one for people home printing CPUs, though.
    • vidarh 6y ago
      Yes, and yet plenty of tools and products target that market anyway. Especially since while a good chunk of it is hobbyist use, another large chunk is small-run electronics where relatively high price tags can easily be justified. But even in the hobbyist space, while the people who would actually use the tools are few in numbers, many hobbyist projects get built in the 100's or even thousands - whether by end-users themselves or by people selling them to end users. FPGAs are often a good chunk of the cost of projects like that.
• bluGill 6y ago
  Maybe you don't print books at home, but the home publishing does exist. Mostly for small businesses who need to give each customer a slightly different book (if only because of updates). If you will sell 1000 books you should get a publisher to print the book, but if you are looking at only a couple per month print on demand at home makes sense as you can ensure everyone gets the latest corrections. The above is moving to electronic, but paper still has advantages over electronics so it isn't dead.