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You're assuming there's a huge army of volunteers available to tackle these problems. Most likely, any open-source developers irritated by this crap simply don
by midoridensha 4y ago
You're assuming there's a huge army of volunteers available to tackle these problems. Most likely, any open-source developers irritated by this crap simply don't buy Epson printers, knowing this about them, or better yet just don't buy inkjet printers. You can get laser printers rather cheaply these days, even with color, and avoid all the problems inherent in inkjets.
- userbinator 4y agoOn the other hand, there seems to be no shortage of 3D printing projects; yet I find myself using a 2D printer far more often than I have ever had a need for a 3D one.
- Lio 4y agoI would imagine it’s because it’s easy to buy a printer that works from someone other than Epson, Canon or HP. When I got fed up of poor quality multi-megabyte driver downloads and cartridges that dry put after a month of inactivity I bought a Brother laser printer. It prints from Windows, Linux and macOS without a driver download and it never dries out.
- johnwalkr 4y ago3D printers are much simpler than 2D printers, in terms of manufacturing the parts. Aside from the extruder area, the parts are simple mechanical off the shelf (or at least simple to manufacture) parts plus some machined or 3D printed interface parts. Most of the complex parts are not unique to a 3D printer and thus they are mass produced and cheap. Many of the important parts in a laser or inkjet printer Have traits like tiny, precise, fluid-tight, even high voltage. And they are only made for printers, they aren’t commodity parts you can just buy. Just getting the parts to make one printer would probably cost 2 orders of magnitude more than buying a printer.