Open Printer
www.crowdsupply.com
Finally, an open hardware printer you can actually understand, repair, and upgrade

I stumbled across this link in the comment of another post, and thought it was super promising!

Someone mentioned something about in the US, this would be illegal due to DRM laws - not sure about the specifics of this, but regardless an open source printer seems like something we’ve needed for ages, as printers are something that always seem like way more of a headache then they need to be. It seems like such a simple technology that has existed for quite some time, but they are always such a pain to deal with. (Maybe it’s just my bad luck with printers?)

  • barryamelton@lemmy.world
    93·
    14 hours ago

    CC BY-NC-SA

    Not open printer. Not open source. You will only be able to get replacements from them, worse than some other printer companies…

    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      62·
      7 hours ago

      Not sure why you’re spouting complete bullshit and where your basing those statements on.

      It pretty clearly states you’ll be able to 3D print parts yourself. It’s also using a Raspberry Pi inside, which I’m fairly sure you can buy wherever you want, so saying you can only get parts from them is complete bullshit.

      Are you a shill for printer companies or something?

      • barryamelton@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 hours ago

        NC - non commercial. Nobody is alowed to sell you the printer nor replacements. Yea you can print it yourself, for that 1% that has a printer.