I'm seeing that the team that owns this customer experience doesn't ensure they get enough positive reviews to break out of the noise (or fix the UX that makes installing this printer on Windows 10 difficult). Either way, it tells me this company doesn't make an effort.
On the other hand their smaller units are still in support till 2027
The printer even has USB, looks better on your desk than the average bulky MFP, and consumes ~ 1W on standby. Plus, not having toner particles in the air might be better for your health.
If only the print quality and noise level weren't abysmal by today's standards, this could easily have been my next printer.
Keep it quiet! Don't give them any funny ideas :D
So maybe that's a low budget option to tinker for you? Or is the problem buying one at all?
But thank you for your "writing on paper" example, that was a useful one. It made me realise how my comment would have to be construed by someone lacking the context I had created in my head :)
I agree, but OP is judging interest in order to produce a product from this concept.
Using a bit of thermal paper each day on a personal basis creates negligible impact, agreed -- creating a company whose primary profit motive is the sales of equipment that produces this waste? That's a different question.