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?)

  • Railison@aussie.zoneEnglish
    1·
    23 minutes ago

    Does it tear the sheets off on its own? Never thought of a reel of paper in an office printer before, I like it

  • ertai@programming.dev
    6·
    17 hours ago

    This is one of the first appliances I tought about when I discovered open hardware. Considering it was a proprietary printer that first roused Richard Stallman’s anger, and considering printers have had some of the most unfair and obnoxious defective designs, it seemed only fitting to liberate those machines first. Only a few weeks ago did I have a friend telling me their printer had refused to work, until pers figured out pers’s subscription had expired. There was nothing I could do apart from warning them once more about DRM and proprietary software and hardware. It is good news indeed to see someone working on this.