5 ms·

Well, that's unfortunate. That means another company couldn't, say, make and sell a variant of this that uses US letter sized paper instead of A4.

by thayne 1y ago

waterproof 1y ago
Since the printer takes flexible roll sizes and cuts its own pages, probably it would work out of the box with letter right? I do get your point though, it would be nice if this was not an NC license
- thayne 1y ago
  Ah yes, looking at the actual specs, it looks like it does support 11 inch rolls as well.
deleted 1y ago
[deleted]
dheera 1y ago
It would be awesome if one could craft a FOSS license that allows all FOSS uses of the project except creating a US letter variant. A4 is awesome, and should become the US standard.
- hamandcheese 1y ago
  Obligatory: https://youtu.be/pUF5esTscZI?si=BVczkH72darILjBE https://youtu.be/pUF5esTscZI?si=BVczkH72darILjBE
  - dreamcompiler 1y ago
    Binary Charles and Ray Eames would like a word.
- satiric 1y ago
  It would be annoying for me to use paper with such strange dimensions. 8.5 x 11, 11 x 17, etc are much easier measurements for me to remember. The root 2 thing with European paper is pleasing though.
  - ruszki 1y ago
    As a European, I have no clue what's the dimensions of A4, A5, etc. We just say A4. I don't think that laymen, like me, know anything about their real size, and I never had a problem not knowing it.
    - miduil 1y ago
      148x210 A5 297x210 A4 297x420 A3 Agree, I had to look it up as well. I can memorize A4 and A3 easily, but A5 is already counter-intuitive. It's an aspect ratio that's kept, so that's why the numbers don't add up easily. With the paper in front of me it's easier, fold, double, you can navigate across all levels of A(n) quickly. All it takes is seeing this single graphic for a split second and you know all the DIN A-sizes, but the US sizes not. I enjoy the US Letter format though as a size, it feels somehow better than A5 as it's more square. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#/media/File:A_size_illustration2_with_letter_and_legal.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#/media/File:A_size_...
      - pbhjpbhj 1y ago
        You cut an A4 to get A5, wasting 1mm ...; two sheets of A4 in an A3 ... there's only one pair of dimensions to remember. Write the sizes in binary and bit-shift them?
        e12e 1y ago
        Wasting one mm?
        wizzwizz4 1y ago
        They're rounded to the nearest mm because the tolerances are about a millimetre, so there's no point specifying the paper size better than that.
- me-vs-cat 1y ago
  > It would be awesome if one could craft a FOSS license that allows all FOSS uses of the project except creating a US letter variant. That can't happen, because your desired exclusion is incompatible with FOSS. You could do that with a non-FOSS license.

Well, that's unfortunate. That means another company couldn't, say, make and sell a variant of this that uses US letter sized paper instead of A4.

by thayne 1y ago

Well, that's unfortunate. That means another company couldn't, say, make and sell a variant of this that uses US letter sized paper instead of A4.

waterproof 1y ago

Since the printer takes flexible roll sizes and cuts its own pages, probably it would work out of the box with letter right? I do get your point though, it would be nice if this was not an NC license

thayne 1y ago
Ah yes, looking at the actual specs, it looks like it does support 11 inch rolls as well.

deleted 1y ago

[deleted]

dheera 1y ago

It would be awesome if one could craft a FOSS license that allows all FOSS uses of the project except creating a US letter variant. A4 is awesome, and should become the US standard.

hamandcheese 1y ago
Obligatory: https://youtu.be/pUF5esTscZI?si=BVczkH72darILjBE https://youtu.be/pUF5esTscZI?si=BVczkH72darILjBE
- dreamcompiler 1y ago
  Binary Charles and Ray Eames would like a word.
satiric 1y ago
It would be annoying for me to use paper with such strange dimensions. 8.5 x 11, 11 x 17, etc are much easier measurements for me to remember. The root 2 thing with European paper is pleasing though.
- ruszki 1y ago
  As a European, I have no clue what's the dimensions of A4, A5, etc. We just say A4. I don't think that laymen, like me, know anything about their real size, and I never had a problem not knowing it.
  - miduil 1y ago
    148x210 A5 297x210 A4 297x420 A3 Agree, I had to look it up as well. I can memorize A4 and A3 easily, but A5 is already counter-intuitive. It's an aspect ratio that's kept, so that's why the numbers don't add up easily. With the paper in front of me it's easier, fold, double, you can navigate across all levels of A(n) quickly. All it takes is seeing this single graphic for a split second and you know all the DIN A-sizes, but the US sizes not. I enjoy the US Letter format though as a size, it feels somehow better than A5 as it's more square. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#/media/File:A_size_illustration2_with_letter_and_legal.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#/media/File:A_size_...
    - pbhjpbhj 1y ago
      You cut an A4 to get A5, wasting 1mm ...; two sheets of A4 in an A3 ... there's only one pair of dimensions to remember. Write the sizes in binary and bit-shift them?
      - e12e 1y ago
        Wasting one mm?
        wizzwizz4 1y ago
        They're rounded to the nearest mm because the tolerances are about a millimetre, so there's no point specifying the paper size better than that.
me-vs-cat 1y ago
> It would be awesome if one could craft a FOSS license that allows all FOSS uses of the project except creating a US letter variant. That can't happen, because your desired exclusion is incompatible with FOSS. You could do that with a non-FOSS license.