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Good luck finding a company that does things much differently. There is a printer cartel, and they want every penny they can squeeze out of those things.
by bobmaxup 5y ago
Good luck finding a company that does things much differently. There is a printer cartel, and they want every penny they can squeeze out of those things.
- grishka 5y agoWhat exactly is stopping people from designing an open-source printer? Even if it is patents, surely many of them should have expired by now?
- willis936 5y agoIt's the size of the market. The startup cost of making a competitively cheap printer is much larger than the expected revenue. Would you pay $2000 for a whitebox printer? Would anyone? It'd be a cool passion project, but making a legitimate business out of it would be hard. One big question I have: "is it legal to sell a printer that requires the use of someone else's toner?". If so, then the concern about sourcing toner after the whitebox company fails can be addressed in the design stage. What I really want to know is why there is no BYOPK whitebox TPM product. That should be easy to make and could dominate the market.
- grishka 5y agoToner or ink shouldn't be much of a problem IMO — you can buy off-brand ink and toner for DIY cartridge refills for existing proprietary printers.