Open printers of any kind are very welcome.
I dream on an OSHW laser printer, engineered to be cheap, durable and easy to repair, with none of the bullshit manufacturers have been pushing on people for decades.
I dream on an OSHW laser printer, engineered to be cheap, durable and easy to repair, with none of the bullshit manufacturers have been pushing on people for decades.
I don't think that driver is open source, but I suspect that you could fairly easily get a generic Postscript printer working with CUPS.
Phones were crazy. So. Much. Homemade. Porn.
Any of it good?
I'm not a douchebag, so I just wiped the disk and didn't do anything with it, but I suspect that there must be an entire industry of people buying used computers or hard drives on Ebay and stealing data off there.
I have the worst time printing in my house because the relative humidity level is very high in the summer. In the summer when my hair is curling and curling and curling from the humidity I have prints curling and trying to come off the walls. (In the winter I complain that static electricity is making my hair stand up on end.)
You can't save money by buying 20 reams of paper on discount from Staples because the paper will soak up water and misbehave when you try to use it.
I've had my brother laser for just about 10 years now, it's been awesome, regular paper, 80# cardstock and shipping labels being no problem from tray or feed.
Envelopes haven't been great.
There's a test page that can be printed that shows alignment. The docs say to try something if it comes out skewed, but if that doesn't work then to take it to a certified place blah blah. It's clearly out of warranty, so that's a no go.
I recently upgraded capabilities as doing more than could honestly be expected of a $99 printer. It has been well worth the expense of a higher model printer.
Outside of that, I still love my $99 Brother B&W laser with scanner for anything not specialty labels. I look at it like not getting upset that a 1980s Yugo doesn't get nearly the same lap times as a 2000s model supercar
It's both cool and terrifying.
Retails new for AU$550.
$30 second hand monochrome laser printer at work I put by my workbench in a metal fabrication workshop, outside is filthy now, have run about 3000 pages through it, so about three toner cartridges, and a new. No issues.
The software seems to be fine, light enough, unobtrusive.