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>unless it also somehow would manage to be extremely cheap. It doesn't have to be cheap. It needs to be durable and easy to repair (e.g. by being modular, and
by snvzz 4y ago
>unless it also somehow would manage to be extremely cheap.
It doesn't have to be cheap. It needs to be durable and easy to repair (e.g. by being modular, and largely 3d-printable).
It needs to use standards (IPP, postscript and so on) and thus not require specialized drivers.
It needs to be able to run on cheap and easy to refill/replace cartridges, be it ink or toner. Hell, I'd even take ink tape and dot pin. Just no DRM bullshit to deal with.
- HideousKojima 4y agoIf it's solely printing ASCII text, an open source daisy wheel printer would be mechanically easy to build. You could even make the daisy wheels swappable to allow different character sets.
- userbinator 4y agoYou could even make the daisy wheels swappable to allow different character sets. You made me imagine a pan-Unicode daisywheel set the size of a bookshelf, and a printer that swaps them while printing, like a CNC machine. If only one had enough time and money...
- HideousKojima 4y agoI'm picturing old tape drive robot arms like this one: https://hips.hearstapps.com/pop.h-cdn.co/assets/16/19/1462894749-ibm-tape-bot.gif https://hips.hearstapps.com/pop.h-cdn.co/assets/16/19/146289...