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inkjets are arguably the dumbest printers that could exist: a motor to move the paper, a motor to move the print heads, the ink itself, print heads that just spray ink droplets, and some sponge to hold waste ink for cleaning

it’s all the extra bloat on top

and the software that means that the printer either clogs after no use, or it keeps dumping shitloads of ink every day as “maintenance”

you can dump a ml or two of ink through the heads every few days and it’ll never clog or accumulate air while powered
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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yeah, it's a really bad design

they should be reserved for the use of making high quality art prints or used in production manufacturing for stuff

3d printers are based on the similar designs, and they are also genetically related to plotters, which are great for automatically drawing plans and maps

they are not an efficient way of depositing an indelible image on paper, they are robots

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