Simon Landmine
cr00kyF'Finally! Open hardware printer you can actually understand, repair, and upgrade... no stupid vendor DRM lock-in. Someone was apparently reading Enshittification from @pluralistic 😎
Will buy several, once available 👍
More on: https://www.opentools.studio/
keithzg
Leigh Garland@cr00ky @pluralistic this has been on the cards for a long time. Has there been a recent update? Can't see any dates on anything 😅
Jan Ainali@cr00ky Not really open though. It has a non-open NC license...
@ainali Yes. But, not limiting for us, users, tinkerers... more open than any other printer 😀
"Open Printer is distributed under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
This means that everyone is free to use, share, and modify the project, provided they credit the original author, share derivatives under the same license, and do not use it for commercial purposes. "
@cr00ky I know. It just don't pass the open definition. (Nor is it listed as an approved open source license by the OSI.) So, a "hardware printer you can actually understand, repair, and upgrade" yes, but it is not open in the sense open is normally used when talking about open hardware or open source. I think the name either implies that they don't really understand the context they are in (which is bad) or that it is a case of open washing (which is worse).
Michel Patrice
Ölbaum@MichelPatrice @ainali It’s because of turbonerds like you, with your endless No True Scotsman fallacies, that we can’t have nice things.
@cr00ky
@cr00ky
Are you talking to me? (Not to be read in De Niron's voice...)
@oscherler You can have all the nice things you want. But if we are bending the definitions, what's the point of trying to define anything at all? Just call it a really cool, repairable and modifiable printer. There's no need to leech on the open movement for this to be a great printer. @MichelPatrice @cr00ky
WellsiteGeo@cr00ky @pluralistic
According to the page, it handles A3, A4, and 11 USbanana sheets too, not just paper roll.
According to the page, it handles A3, A4, and 11 USbanana sheets too, not just paper roll.
Steven D. Brewer 🏳️⚧️@cr00ky @pluralistic I wonder if they'll make a version with a regular Raspberry Pi, so it could have ethernet.
dch 
@cr00ky can't wait to support this project for the next 20 years @pluralistic
Vítor@cr00ky It’s been on “Coming Soon” for at least six months (see submission date on HN link). I don’t see any updates. This might be dead.
DaBo
gooffrey@cr00ky @pluralistic I love the idea of this thing, i just don't know where to get paper in rolls. May buy one anyway just to support
acb@cr00ky @cstross @pluralistic Does it steganograph its serial number on prints in tiny dots of yellow ink as all commercial printers do, because currency counterfeiting or whatever? If not, are there any legal issues with it not doing so?
you're all idiots@cr00ky @pluralistic the design is patented and locked in the CC BY NC license which means no third party replacement parts.