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The Open Printer Is a Raspberry Pi Zero W-Powered, Fully-Open, Highly-Flexible Inkjet Printer (www.hackster.io)

submitted 4 months ago by poVoq@slrpnk.net to c/opensource@programming.dev

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[–] OnfireNFS@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's a really good idea. Something like OpenWrt but for printers would be amazing.

It's funny, they have their own hardware now. Maybe starting with a open source printer firmware would eventually lead to open source printer hardware.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

See, I was thinking replacement boards on the grounds that printer manufacturers have a lot more financial incentive to make firmware flashing difficult than router manufacturers do.