Some more news about the OpenPrinter project. With a poll asking for planned usage of potential users, probably to help them prepare a first production batch.
I am excited to see the project progress !
Here is their website as well for interested people : https://www.opentools.studio/
Ink anarchy
I remember looking at this at some point and first being excited, but then disappointed.
I do not remember the exact reason, but it had something to do with how open/not open it is.
Some part was still very proprietary or something, kind of defeating the purpose.
Someone more invested than me might know what I’m rambling about, but I really hope this is as good as it looks at a first glance.
perhaps you are referring to the ink cartriges? iirc, it uses canon cartridges.
HP. But what I understood is that you only buy those once and then you get your refill ink from Openprinter.
I believe this may be about the licensing as discussed in an earlier post.
From my understanding the ink can be bought elsewhere too but I’d have to check to make sure.
Only thing I don’t get is that paper roll I have to specifically buy for this printer but small size is appreciated
You can also use sheets if you don’t want a roll.
How? Do you have to feed each sheet individually?
Seems like the thing holding the roller, doubles as a tray for sheets. I don’t know how many it will hold though.
They say it does “standard page sizes” or a roll i can’t imagine it not being able to handle cardstock
In the questionnaire that asked what you’d be interested in: standard paper size, a roll or both.
I think both will be possible regarding how much they’ve communicated the roll by now and how they might lose out on a big user base if they force the roll on the user. Their best bet would be imo to have some kind of swappable feeder, on for rolls and one for sheets. Depending on how expensive that would be, they might need to sell versions that only contains 1 of those feeders. Maybe I’m wrong and their design has a feeder that somehow handles both.
The roll does seem to limit it from doing thicker sticks like card stock. I’d not cheat to me if they could build a simple page feed
Let me know when they’ll let me feed it A4.
The website mentions a4, a3 and letter
Okay, also doing A3 has me legitimately interested.
I just hope theres an option for a deep feeder tray.
This is beautiful, it’s so simple looking
I bet you could mod this into a pen plotter by simply adding a servo to wind the spool back too.
Cool. I’ll want that once my Oki ML320 stops working
I don’t see any poll on their website
