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Printer tracking dots (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by kersploosh@sh.itjust.works to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have another question as to why we don't have an open source paper printer.

[–] florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No market for it. Printers have already become so fucking cheap to make that the manufacturers can't survive unless they overprice their ink.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm tempted to see if I can't get some old daisywheel printer running on a modern Linux machine.