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by transfire 921 days ago
The real problem is the printer makers want to make printers as cheap as possible and sell lots of ink to rake in the $.

An actual good printer would have enough compute (Raspberry Pi would be sufficient) and storage (a small ssd) to handle the task by itself. Then printing is nothing more than copying a file to the printer.

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>The real problem is the printer makers want to make printers as cheap as possible

I don't think they want to. They are forced into it by the razor thin margins on cheap hardware. It's a race to the bottom.