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by pas 694 days ago
Compared to managing thousands of printers? And then the resulting printouts? Buying ink, changing the cartridges?

Technologically it seems doable. Big enough order brings down the costs.

https://soldered.com/product/soldered-inkplate-5-5-2%e2%80%b...

Of course the real backup plan should be designed based on the actual needs, perhaps the whole system needs an "offline mode" switch. I assume they already run things locally, in case the big cable seeker machine arrives in the neighborhood.