107 points

The thing is, we definitely could have 100% reliable printers with good reparabilty, but capitalism gotta capitalism

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24 points

Just get a color laser printer, learn how to refill toner carts and buy or flash the chips. Even a monkey can do that! /s

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6 points

Scraping those fucking chips off the cartridges like a crackhead scraping resin is a nightmare.

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8 points

My last flash was a random ass script I found on github and 3 alligator clips one the chip pads to reset it, jabky af but felt soooo nice being able to reset it on my own.

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12 points

we should have stopped making new printers after the HP LaserJet 4, it’s all been downhill since then

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41 points

With how much more reliable and easy to use 3d printers are, I’m saying we need to move on to 4d printers

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24 points

Yeah, 3D printer stuff has lots of open source and open hardware going on so its a big improvement over 2D in that aspect

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12 points

Page comes out decaying, crumbling, “send help” message scrawled across it because you forgot to refill the time dilation cartridge

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7 points

I’ve never had a driver problem with my 3D printer

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5 points

Can I just 3D print my documents?

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I mean you could. It would be slower more expensive and less practical than inkjet or laser printing, but there is nothing keeping you from fixing a piece of paper in the 3d printer and have it “write” on it with the molten plastic.

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4 points

See…I was imagining you’d 3D print the whole thing: paper with text

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4 points
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PC LOAD LETTER …is still a thing….

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3 points

2d printers are hellspawns. Period.

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