• @imgprojts@lemmy.ml
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    72 years ago

    One day, back in 2010, I got pissed at my Epson color printer and I saw an ad in Fry’s for a Samsung office all I’m one printer/scanner/fax. It’s 2022 and I’m looking right at it right now. It has moved to 6 different houses and it’s in need for new toner, but it still runs pretty well.

    Epson just screwed up it’s printer business model because I would never, under any circumstances buy another Epson anything, ever again. I’ll buy it used from a garage sale as a paper weight before I’d ever buy epsom for anything. I got down to the code on this kind of shit with my Epson and my Brother printers. I was able to get the brother running again, but the Epson went into the garbage.

    Do this is what they did to their clients. Client no more.

  • NXL
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    62 years ago

    I’m surprised there isnt an OpenWRT type OS for printers yet.

    At least printers are barely needed anymore

    • @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.mlOP
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      42 years ago

      I thibk mainly because printers are WAY more non-standardized in how they work than routers. An alternative OS would need to account for the minutiae differences of all the mechanical bits.