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I recently was in Cuba and also visited a local print shop. It was a delight to see dozens of hacked HP printers with tubes directly going into containers of i
by portaouflop 3y ago
I recently was in Cuba and also visited a local print shop.
It was a delight to see dozens of hacked HP printers with tubes directly going into containers of ink doing all the printing.
The printers had small custom circuit boards attached and were mostly dismantled up to the very core of the machine.
As far as I could see it all worked very well and print quality was also good at a low price (even for local standards).
HP doesn’t stand a chance against humans who are determined to solve a problem.
- declan_roberts 3y agoThat’s why they use regulation and laws in the USA to try and get their way.
- moolcool 3y agoIs it illegal in the US to hack your own HP printer? I remember ~20 years ago there was a pretty huge cottage industry in grey market inkjet refills and DRM circumvention
- graemep 3y ago> and DRM circumvention Which makes it sound like a breach of copyright law.
- declan_roberts 3y agoIndividual use gets a lot of privilege in US law (rightly so!) but commercial purposes get the stick. In this it would probably be a cease and desist to the copy business
- skydhash 3y agoI had a friend who used syringes to refill the catridges. He'd buy bottles of ink instead.
- gosub100 3y agoI would like to see crowdfunding of bounties that people could chip into, that are released to hackers who successfully accomplish the task. It would cost nothing to the contributor unless the bounty was claimed, and awarding the bounty would be done by a vote of a quorum of trusted leaders. Examples would be "jailbreak the XYZ phone" or "remove DRM from HP printer model 123xyz", etc.
- CamperBob2 3y agoCongress would shut that down faster than prediction markets and online poker.
- portaouflop 3y agobuild it and host it like pirate bay — I’m sure the knowledge is already out there, we just gotta make it accessible and impossible to take down
- supportengineer 3y agoEpson went ahead and embraced these users, and built a line of printers for them. [1] [1] https://epson.com/ecotank-ink-tank-printers https://epson.com/ecotank-ink-tank-printers Haven't used them personally but it seems like a positive step forward.
- prossercj 3y agoCanon has one of these too. I've been using it for almost a year, and I love it. I print a lot of reading material, and the cost per page is lower than laser. In my opinion the aesthetics are also better. https://www.usa.canon.com/shop/p/maxify-gx6021?color=Black&type=New https://www.usa.canon.com/shop/p/maxify-gx6021?color=Black&t...
- epiccoleman 3y agoSomething really tickled me about clicking this link and seeing ... Shaq, of all people, grinning with his arms spread to advertise these printers.
- falcolas 3y agoTrivia bit: Shaq’s likeness is owned by the same company who owns and licenses the Sports Illustrated brand.
- cyanydeez 3y agowhich is why they likely are already in process to hijack America's IP system and political machine to try a DMCA like enforement.
- xigurat 3y agoAs a Cuban person, I'm very proud of this... My dad, an engineer, does stuff like this all the time