Plotters do (well, ones that feed off a roll rather than using a table). Common if you need to do larger prints.
Supported paper sizes include North American letter, tabloid, European A4, A3, 11-inch-wide rolls, and 27mm-wide rolls.
Here's 11-inch rolls:
https://buyrolls.com/11-x-150-20-plotter-paper-2-core-8-rolls-case.html
One factor in Ukraine's favor is that I assume that Russia is going to have a hard time doing dispersed production of ballistic missiles.
kagis
It sounds like Iskanders are assembled at a factory in Votkinsk, for example.
If they can manage to hit that with some kind of heavy munition, I assume that it'll disrupt production.
Patriots
well, MIM-104s
are manufactured in Andover, Massachusetts, in the US. Russia cannot attack production facilities there without engaging in direct conflict with the US.
I've used pen plotters that feed off a roll like that. One benefit is that you don't have restrictions on how long your print is
you can make very large continuous images. That can be desirable for certain applications.
The pen plotter I used had a paper cutter that sliced the paper at the end of a print. I don't know if this thing slices at the end of each page or what.
kagis
Ah. Apparently it also can handle pre-cut sheets, and it additionally has a cutter for the roll:
The printer's paper, meanwhile, can be loaded as pre-cut sheets in letter, tabloid, A4, and A3 sizes, or as a continuous roll — with a built-in cutter knife able to trim the latter to the desired size following the completion of each page.
I dunno if they have a paper feeder, or if you have to insert pre-cut sheets one at a time, which I imagine would be obnoxious.
You can get inkjet printers that don't have restrictions on the ink. They cost more, though.
The reason printer manufacturers are so hell-bent on being a pain in the ass with the ink is because they're using a razor-and-blades model. They're selling you the printer at a lower price than they really should, if their price reflected their costs, with the expectation that they'll make their money back when you buy ink at a higher price than you really should, because people pay more attention to the the initial price of the printer than to the consumable costs.
Same way you can get unlocked cell phones instead of network-locked cell phones with a plan. Gaming PCs instead of consoles. It's not that they're unavailable, but you're gonna have to accept a higher up-front cost, because you're not getting a subsidy from the manufacturer.
Canon sells a line of inkjet printers that just take ink from a bottle. No hassles with restrictions on ink supply there. The ink is cheap, and there are third-party options that are even cheaper readily available...but you're going to pay full price for the printer.
https://www.usa.canon.com/shop/printers/megatank-printers
Their lowest-end "MegaTank" printer is $230:
https://www.usa.canon.com/shop/p/megatank-pixma-g3290
A pack of third-party ink refill bottles is $15, and will print (using Canon's metrics), about 7,700 color pages and 9,000 black-and-white pages:
https://www.amazon.com/Refill-Compatible-Bottles-MegaTank-4-Pack/dp/B0DSPSS5W7
Compatible GI-21 Black Ink Bottle Up to 9,000 pages, GI-21 Cyan/Magenta/Yellow Ink Bottles Up to 7,700 pages
On the other hand, Canon's lowest-end "cartridge" printer, where they use the razor-and-blades model, is $55.
https://www.usa.canon.com/shop/p/pixma-ts3720-wireless-home-all-in-one-printer
But you rapidly pay for it with the ink; It looks like they presently sell a set of replacement cartridges for $91. And that set will print a tiny fraction of the number of pages that the above ink bottles will print.
page yield of 400 Black / 400 Color pages per ink cartridge set and cost of $90.99 for a value pack of PG-285(XL) and CL-286(XL) ink cartridges (using Canon Online Store prices as of June 2025).
So if you really do want to do photo prints with an inkjet without dealing with all the DRM-on-ink stuff, you can do it today. But...you're going to pay more for the printer.
All that being said, I do think that lasers are awfully nice in that you don't need to deal with nozzles clogging. You can leave a laser printer for years and it'll just work when you start it up. If you don't need photo output, just less hassle.
While I’d personally love to see an open color lazer printer more. (Less wasteful and more rugged)
I use a black-and-white laser printer, but if I were going to use a color laser printer, I'd like to have an open color laser printer simply because I'd like to have a printer that isn't dumping printer tracking dots into each image I print.
I would assume that he just wants friction. If he wants to generate an actual international incident, he should try to get a bunch of wackjobs out of Maine to go sit on Macchias Seal Island. That's the subject of an actual, unresolved US/Canadian territorial dispute, so from a US federal standpoint, Maine has a right to do whatever it wants there. Canada, in turn, has a history of aiming to establish a precedent of its authority over it and I expect isn't going to ignore a bunch of right-wingers out of the US setting up camp there.
There's this process in language where intensifiers
words that amplify the strength of the meaning of the rest of the phrase
tend to become used in areas that they aren't really truly appropriate in and thus "weaken" in meaning.
So, for example, "awesome" once truly meant "awe-inspiring", but it's been used enough in weaker senses the past several decades here in California that it doesn't really mean that any more. It just means "very good" now.
I don't think that the Brits do that with "awesome"
or at least not as much
but they like to use "colossally" in a similar way.
The above Wikipedia link has a list of intensifiers, including "literally", and you can probably recognize a bunch of them that have "weakened".
Every time I hear someone say ‘eh’ in a questioning tone or to mean ‘um actually’ I lose my shit. Or even just to play something down.
Like I literally come to hate the person instantly. Its a very strong feeling on a very small sound.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eh
Eh (/ˈeɪ/ or /ˈɛ/)[1] is a spoken interjection used in many varieties of English. The oldest Oxford English Dictionary defines eh as an "interjectional interrogative particle often inviting assent to the sentiment expressed."[2] Today, while eh has many different uses, it is most popularly used in a manner similar in meaning to "Excuse me?", "Please repeat that", "Huh?", or to otherwise mark a question. It is also commonly used as an alternative to the question tag "right?", as a method for inciting a reply, as in "Don't you think?", "You agree with me, right?", as in, "It's nice here, eh?" (instead of "It's nice here, right?"). In the Americas, it is most commonly associated with Canada and Canadian English, though it is also common in England, Scotland, and New Zealand.
"We don't take kindly to British English around these parts."
It's not often that you see a group of four states on a social value issue where Utah and California are in the same group, but there you are.
Sacks, the Trump administration’s AI czar and co-host of the conference, stopped Musk mid-answer. “Well, Elon, by the way, could you just publish that?” he asked. “Wikipedia is so biased, it’s a constant war.” He suggested that Musk create what he called “Grokipedia.”
This past week, as the Wikipedia controversy reignited, Musk announced xAI would, in fact, offer up Grokipedia. Soon after, the Wikipedia page for Musk’s Grok was updated. The entry included a brief comparison to an effort almost 20 years earlier to create another Wikipedia alternative called Conservapedia.
Yeah, my initial take is "Conservapedia was pretty much a disaster, and there's a reason that people don't use it".
Like, go to Conservapedia's "evolution" article.
https://www.conservapedia.com/Evolution
Like, you're going to have to create an entire alternate reality for people who have weird views on X, Y, or Z. And making it worse, there isn't overlap among all those groups. Like, maybe you're a young earth creationist, and you like that evolution article. But then maybe you don't buy into chemtrails. It looks like Conservapedia doesn't like chemtrails. So that's gonna piss off the chemtrail people.
There are lots of people on the right who are going to disagree with scientific consensus on something, but they don't all have the same set of views. They might all complain that Wikipedia doesn't fit with their views on particular point X, but that doesn't mean that they're going to go all happily accept the fringe views of some other group. And some views are just going to outright contradict each other. You could have a conservative Mormon, Amish, and a Catholic, but they're going to have some seriously clashing views on religion, even if they're all conservative. In broader society, the way we normally deal with that is to just let people make up their own mind on particular issues. But if you're trying to create a single "alternate reality" that all of them subscribe to, then you have to get them all on one page, which is going to be a real problem.
Maybe Musk could make Grok try to assess which fringe group that someone is in and automatically provide a version of truth in Grok's responses tailored to their preferences. But...that's not a Grokipedia, because the latter requires a unified view.
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