Open source printer with refillable ink, no bullshit, accept rolls of papers.
Finally an open source printer ! I dealt with so much stupidity with printers. it warm my heart.
I do have too much joy to practice mandatory critical thinking about the release of a new project. Lets talk about it? i am not the only one to be happy about it, i have no info about the price though :/
Roll paper isn’t ideal, proprietary cartridges are not great. I applaud the effort, but it’s all the easiest parts of the printer opened while the hard parts are left to capitalism.
Roll paper in my experience hasn’t been that bad, I think wanting non proprietary cartridges is not feasible at the moment and we can use ink bottles in them anyways so it doesn’t seem like a big deal. Its a much better very reasonable attempt that so far nobody else has really done so its worth supporting by reason to being much better than what is available at the moment.
You can use ink bottles for a number of refills before they foul or fail; refilling is fine, but those piezo heads don’t last forever. Wanting nonproprietary inkjet heads will never be feasible, which is honestly why I had discounted the whole project. An inkjet is a wrapper of barely complex tech around a super complex printead.
It’s like saying you’re going to make an open source car, they going well, except the motor, you’re going to need an engine out of a 1997 honda-civic to make it work.
As long as the heads are availalbe from HP, and they don’t go nuts on pricing or some soul in china is willing to sell copies it’ll work. That’s just not the normal far for and open device.