this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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I dont know the technical knowhow or how complex will an open source printer hardware and software could be ? Like nobody ever tried building one ?
I've thought of doing hardware design attempts on this before. My rough mental notes:
Ink:
Toner (aka "laser"):
Paper path:
Electronics:
Extras:
Legal:
if you mean computer software and driver stack, there's unix cups and various open source printer firmwares for linux.
The problem for me is scanners. I need a printer with a scanner, but scanning seems to require installing proprietary drivers :(
So I realized I probably need a printer that doesn't require a computer to use. It's ridiculous that it came to this, but there are printers that can print from USB and scan to a USB device. They seem to be rare though.
Probably easier to make a replacement control board.