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by linsomniac 1390 days ago
Why can't paper printers be more like 3D printers? Amazing repairability, many suppliers of standardized source material...
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Some of the companies are trying to move to much more streamlined initial setups and propriety parts to bring more reliable printing but at least for now the amount of open repairable printers is more than sufficient and popular.
The complexity of the ink jets themselves. Or rather their microscopic size.