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> My assumption would be the complexity of the print mechanism / tolerances / balancing. I once sat on a chairlift with a lawyer who had represented one of the
by leejo 3y ago
> My assumption would be the complexity of the print mechanism / tolerances / balancing.
I once sat on a chairlift with a lawyer who had represented one of the big printer companies and he explained that printers are the perfect storm of: hardware, software, firmware, chemistry, physics, fluid dynamics, paper science, and (yes) lawyers.
The larger companies have put billions into R&D, hence them continuing to pull the crap we see every other month on HN.
- thih9 3y agoI don’t care about that R&D. I seriously doubt that R&D was about long term cost efficient reliability in a user friendly context - because we’re mostly seeing the opposite. I print two b&w pages per month, for now I’m another happy user of a brother laser printer.