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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    3 days ago

    What’s so bad about inkjet? The ink is going to be cheap since it’s not proprietary cartridges and the clogging issue is very overblown IMO. I’ve had one crappy cheap Canon and one crappy cheap HP inkjet and neither one dried up when left alone for several months. Took the HP being unused for 5+ years on what was still the original ink cartridges for it to stop printing.

    This being open source hardware means if it DOES get clogged, the parts will likely be cheap, and it not having ultra tight tolerance nozzles AFAIK means clogs are less likely to happen.

    I’m likely not buying/building one because I just don’t need to print things that often anymore (hence the HP sitting around for years between prints), but I don’t foresee inkjet being a deciding factor in THIS case. It would be if I was getting a proprietary printer.

    • Mihies@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Yup. one thing is clogging (I’ve experienced it many times in the past). It might be cheaper to repair with this one, but still annoying. Then there is print quality affected by moist during and after printing. And lastly, the ink price. Which again, it might be reasonable with this one, but who knows. The first two reasons are enough for me to avoid it. But again, it’s great effort and I hope it succeeds.