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Epson Boobytrapped Its Printers

29 points| URfejk | 3 years ago |pluralistic.net

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[+] fezfight|3 years ago|reply
Anyone working on a free and open 3d printable printer? Let's just download this car already and begin ignoring these vampires.
[+] URfejk|3 years ago|reply
That would be great. I could finally start printing my own banknotes. :)
[+] albert_e|3 years ago|reply
How are companies operating in a competitive market able to get away with this blatantly anti-consumer behavior.

It's not like there are high barriers to entry in this market, nor there is any exclusive licensing or access hurdles -- like telecom spectrum, or fiber lines for ISPs. Nor are there any compatibility exclusions (proprietary connectors, protocols or walled gardens).

[+] thrashh|3 years ago|reply
A good printer requires good components and that costs $$$

For most people, they want a printer for convenience but not enough to pay good money for good parts

So this market of shittier printers with cheap parts exist. While I hate cheap inkjet printers, they did work enough for what I needed them for and they didn’t cost a fortune… so the market continues to exist

/shrug

[+] superchroma|3 years ago|reply
US government willfully asleep at the wheel and not exerting anything more than minimum regulatory pressure.
[+] nicolaslem|3 years ago|reply
It is a dying market though.
[+] baileycoffee|3 years ago|reply
Consumer grade printers are a barren wasteland of planned obsolescence and anti-consumer practices. I recommend everyone that needs a printer in their home spend the extra couple of hundred dollars and buy an office grade printer. The difference between our current HP OfficeJet color laser printer/scanner/copier (cost about $450) and our previous cheapo under $100 consumer grade ink jet printer is unbelievable. Well worth the extra cash and it’s a total workhorse that feels like it’ll last for years.
[+] bediger4000|3 years ago|reply
I will view HP printers suspiciously if I'm ever in the market again, and I won't consider Canon unless everything else is a poor fit. Both brands just make it hard for no good reason. Canon in particular makes using their printers with anything other than Windows arbitrarily difficult.