Progress Update & Details About Our Nomination for a French Design Award!
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We are working tirelessly on the finishing touches before we launch our Crowd Supply campaign at some point in the next few months. Here is a look at where we stand and what we are refining right now.
  • officermike@lemmy.worldEnglish
    89·
    8 days ago

    While I like the idea of an open source printer, there’s just no world in which I ever buy another inkjet printer. I print way too infrequently.

    • Akasazh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      54·
      8 days ago

      There’s something about supporting something even if you have no personal use of it.

      So yeah I to don’t plan to use one, but I support the hell out of anything that busts the balls of big, entrenched and enshittyfied big tech.

      • 0ops@piefed.zipEnglish
        16·
        8 days ago

        Agree, I really don’t need a printer at all, but I’m still rooting for the project to succeed

    • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      45·
      8 days ago

      I have apprehensions about it being inkjet as well, but the possibility of not having tracking dots in everything I print is a nice prospect. The privacy factor overrides my desire for laser

      • cyberwolfie@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        I solved this privacy issue by having all the ink nozzles dry out, so the dots can’t be printed.

          • notabot@piefed.socialEnglish
            15·
            8 days ago

            It’s not clear to me exactly what Deda does to anonymise a document before printing, they talk about masking the dots, but it seems to me that the easiest way would just be to create a list of all possible dot positions, and print a yellow dot on a random subset of them (or, indeed, all of them), so confounding anyone trying to identify the real dots. Ideally this would be a CUPS filter, so you could just set it up once and have all printouts anonymised.

            • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              11·
              8 days ago

              That’s also something you can do with Deda. It’s a full analysis tool with reading, identification, creating custom dots, and masking dots. So for example, if you use openprinter for something subversive but want to avoid identification due to lack of dots, you could create fake dots to hide that your printer doesn’t use them

      • rollerbang@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        8 days ago

        Considering it’s open source and on a roll, one could simply print like 1 mm a week and it would never dry out. Or whatever the minimum would be based on current conditions.

        • volore@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
          2·
          7 days ago

          Or just buy a black and white laser printer. Can’t print yellow dots with no yellow toner, and 99% of people I have ever met who need and use a printer do not need high-quality inkjet color prints, or even middling laser color prints, on a regular basis.

    • SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org
      4·
      8 days ago

      Sometimes technological advancements aren’t necessarily progress. I may be wrong, but print heads clogging was less frequent and easier to fix when we didn’t have picoliter droplets.