That’s only required for color printers though. I’d be fine with a FOSS B/W printer. Gotta start somewhere!
Comment on HP customer claims firmware update shoved printer off support cliff
pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 6 days agoMy personal big suspicion is that the legally required anti-counterfeiting measures for printing (those near invisible yellow dots that color prints require) has prevented this from happening yet, but surely there must be some way.
Quexotic@infosec.pub 5 days ago
pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
As would I!
Though I also did find a few interesting links about people attempting to make FOSS printers earlier after getting inspired by this comment, which I share here now:
www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer
hackaday.io/project/167446-diy-inkjet-printer
Also a discussion on open source printer firmware here: hackaday.io/…/6176-why-is-there-no-open-source-fi…
Honestly, that Open Tools one looks really interesting to me (it can be wall-mounted!!) but I can’t for the life of me figure out when the project was last updated to see if it’s currently active or defunct.
Quexotic@infosec.pub 4 days ago
I actually had that printer in mind, but I wish there was an available FOSS laser printer.
pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
That makes sense. Yeah, I’d love to see someone do that. If anyone ever turns up a project like that, even if it’s like five years after this comment was posted, feel free to share it here.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I think the bigger issue is that printers are a commodity item in the public eye. Cheap and disposable, yet backed by thousands of hours of secret sauce engineering to achieve extremely high print quality.
Finding people willing to do that kind of work for free is very difficult, not to mention the fact that prototyping hardware is still very expensive, though it has come down in price dramatically over the teats.