How come 3D printing has such a nice community and open-source DIY projects detailing how to build your own printer. But 2D printers have been around for far longer, are more rudimentary, are more widely used, yet NOBODY has made an open-source 2D printer? Everyone bitches about the shitty market, full of planned-obsolescence, how the software refuses to listen to your computer. Why is it such a mess?
Didn't some university or something in the 80's write their own firmware for some early laser printer or some phototypesetting machine, and Xerox or whatever the manufacturer was went completely batshit insane when they heard about it?
>>108486865Open Printer?https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer
>>1084868653d printers are a much simpler piece of tech
>>108486989This. Humans cannot solve efficient 2D printing. Perhaps superhuman AI will finally manage to do it.
slap marker to your 3d printer, its not a 2d plotter, youre welcome
>2D Printersyou mean printers? what the fuck
>>108486969Looks like shit, not even a laser printer.
>>108486865Just take a 3d printer and duct-tape a pencil or a pen onto itFor extra fanciness you can get 4 markers and a tool changer for CMYK capabilities
>>108486865>yet NOBODY has made an open-source 2D printer?Because the inkjet print heads are made using the same equipment we use to make CPUs and RAM chips. Good luck making a working printhead at home.Laser printers might be more feasible, but you would still need extremely fine control of the involved optics.
>>108486969>rollWhy…?
>>108486969>RollInsanely based. Too bad it's inkjet, why is that?
>>108487000It can't be hard. Nobody bothers because only corpos actually buy a lot of those and they won't pay you if you don't have a company registered or smth, you won't because you are probably breaking the law regarding patents and such.When it comes to consumers, it's basically a scam. Most people never use their printers enough to justify how much they paid for it. 99 times out of 100 typical consumers gets scammed when buys a home printer.
>>108487373You're gay and a coward. I can do that. But nobody will pay for that shit. And if someone does, I will go to jail for breaking patent laws.I'm not afraid of any of that, but I really hate fails. Nothing to do there.
>>108487429cause laser means fucking around with ultra fine microplastics
>>108487557All the relevant patents for a good enough printer are expired by now.
>>108487373there's still dot matrix
>>108487569I'd double check it first. They have loopholes that allow them to extend it for bs reasons.
>>108487373>inkI'm gonna make mine using colored pencils
>>108486903Yeah, thats where GNU came from
FOSS printing won't be a thing until cash becomes obsolete. Any project that starts getting traction goes belly up and it smells of small hats.Watch, when digital currency replaces paper cash you'll start seeing new diy laser printers on hackaday every month.
Usecase for 2d printing?
>>108490592Giving foids the ick.
>>108490592printing church bulletins
>>108486969Dead project
because theres no need toepson ecotank fixes EVERY problem i have EVER had with a printer
>>108492640I didn't know Shaq posted here
>>108487429cause the grifters behind this "project" chose to use some HP cartidges (really, HP.) that have been reverse engineered so the most complex part of the project have already been solved
>>108492640Only if you print frequently. If you print infrequently ink clogs very easily and then you need to spam test pages, head cleaning 2-3 times then test page again to make sure it worked and then print the one page you need per month. At worst you need to disassemble the entire printer to remove the clog manually.
>>108493074i print maybe once a month and have NEVER had the nozzles clog
>>108487301It's called a retronym, a new name to differentiate an old thing from a new one. Just like a landline phone was just a phone, but now you need the extra word to specify not a cell phone.
I think it's a glownigger problem. All printers micro stamp yellow ink you cannot see to tie whatever your printed to your printer. They use this to gangstalk activists and such who put up posters. Probably anyone that's tried making an open printer have gotten shut down.
>>108492640I have an L3250, the lid and tray feel so flimsy that I worry a bit. But holy shit the ink is wonderfully cheap. A 65ml bottle costs less than a 5ml HP cartridge. And there's unofficial inks, I could easily get a goddamn 1 litre bottle.
>>108487356Everything old is new again.
>>108493847Plotters were S-tier tech
