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Absolutely not because printer patents will kill you. There are a handful of companies that hold all the patents necessary to build a printer. If you try to bu

• pbhjpbhj 4y ago
  Patent terms for printers would be at most 20 years. Perfectly good laser printers existed >20 years ago. You can tear down an old printer and make a clone of all functional and non-artistic aspects without infringing IP. In theory, patent specifications should provide a manual to help make any once-patented aspects of the device. Indeed, that's the goal, in part, of the patent system to make technologies available in return for a time-limited monopoly.
  • otherme123 4y ago
    Literally, what happened to 3D printers: a zombie/niche sector until the FDM patents expired in 2009.