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The OpenPrinter project (see the CrowdSupply project's page) aims to create an open source repairable printer. It has some interesting features.

I was starting to believe the project was dead but they gave some news on their progress today : https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer/updates/progress-update-and-details-about-our-nomination-for-a-french-design-award.

I post it here since the project is lead by french people and would be an alternative to many printer manufacturer.

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[โ€“] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 days ago

This is so cool! It looks to be much smaller than your typical printer, while still being able to print relatively large sizes (A3 and the American equivalent "tabloid"), neat! Many larger prints are only able to do A4 (or "letter" size if you're American)

Having something super repairable, no proprietary drivers and cartridges, etc. is always good too.

600/1200 DPI (latter for coloured prints, former for greyscale) looks impressive considering most people usually print at around 300 dpi I think, hopefully this means the print quality is excellent!

I think it's good that they haven't released the price of it yet, and given how the prices of pretty much everything, especially in electronics, seem to fluctuate these days, it's good not to overpromise on anything.