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[–] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 106 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Excuse me - if I bought your product and paid for it, in what universe am I not investing into you, and instead you are investing into me??

HP is a steaming pile of shit.

[–] RatherBeMTB@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The real question here is where are the Chinese printers?! I mean, it's a big market, why aren't they getting into it?

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's really hard to break into it. Being accurate enough to print at 300dpi is very difficult, and that's not particularly impressive. If it's color, then the problems are multiplied. You have to precisely align four different print heads (minimum), and the ink needs to be mixed just right for accurate colors.

This is also why you don't see open source 2d printers like you do for 3d printers. On the surface, adding a third dimension seems like it'd make things more complicated, but 3d printers don't need the level of accuracy that 2d printers do.

[–] RatherBeMTB@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

But I would think TVs and microchips are more complicated than printers. And those two have been cracked by the Chinese.

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