You buy the printer. The printer is made out of wood and metal. If you hit it with a hammer your hammer will break. It communicates only over Ethernet. Uses the default driver of the most popular desktop OSes. If you call support a surly man yells at you and tells you that this isn’t fucking EAgames, you buy it you own it our business is concluded. You put whatever ink you want in it via a syringe. Your grandkids can inherit it when you die and it will still work. When it breaks you get out a screwdriver and pliers to fix it. The manual warning for electrical shock hazard is “if you are too dumb to fix it you deserve getting electrocuted. Please hire someone who can be trust with scissors to open this”.
You put whatever ink you want in it via a syringe.
You manage to make it not clog after I forget to print a color page for two weeks (make it a decade) and I will buy & recommend your printers exclusively for the rest of my life.
As long as you are happy, that is all that counts! Personally my color printing is like 14 pages every 7 months and that’s not enough to keep an inkjet happy, my samsung color laser on the other hand has been zero effort all that time.
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You buy the printer. The printer is made out of wood and metal. If you hit it with a hammer your hammer will break. It communicates only over Ethernet. Uses the default driver of the most popular desktop OSes. If you call support a surly man yells at you and tells you that this isn’t fucking EAgames, you buy it you own it our business is concluded. You put whatever ink you want in it via a syringe. Your grandkids can inherit it when you die and it will still work. When it breaks you get out a screwdriver and pliers to fix it. The manual warning for electrical shock hazard is “if you are too dumb to fix it you deserve getting electrocuted. Please hire someone who can be trust with scissors to open this”.
I have an ink tank printer that works pretty much like this. The tanks are translucent so I can even see the ink.
As long as you are happy, that is all that counts! Personally my color printing is like 14 pages every 7 months and that’s not enough to keep an inkjet happy, my samsung color laser on the other hand has been zero effort all that time.
sennheiser problem unfortunately, but you will have cult followers- try releasing it as open hardware? maybe