Its about time some engineers step up and build a modern, functional and repairable printer. I dont care that its not financially feasible. Just make it feasible. How are people still buying printers from companies that spend all their ink cartridge money on marketing and more obsolescence?
Or just buy a cheap laser printer, connect it via USB, and the toner cartridge (and drum) will probably last you years with doing just the occasional printout.
My 12 year old cheap HP Color LaserJet printer I paid 99€ for is still going strong, on original toners... Just tells how much I actually use it. The colour printing is slightly off, but I never do much of that anyway. And it printed the shipping labels today acceptably. Not perfect, but good enough.
Amazing actually... Bit earlier, I thought it finally broke as I failed to print, but USB cable was not connected...
I rarely need color; I'm going to send photos off to be printed anyway which is basically never. I'd probably buy a color Laserprinter anyway today just because they're pretty cheap.
I have the space and I don't print a lot. But it's sometimes convenient and I sure don't want to drive 20 minutes to Staples every time I actually need to print something.
I actually consigned my color inkjets--including a large-format HP photo printer--to purgatory (aka my attic) because the ink dried out and I'd have been over $100 for a refill.
I think Stallman wanted to do that but somehow ended up with FSF and GNU instead, which AFAICT didn't significantly affected quality of printers either.
