Those problems still sound more easy to fix than building custom mems Inkjet nozzles at home. Lasers in all sorts of wavelengths can be bought. Putting charge on the toner is just a question of adding some high voltage. The dielectric photosensitive material on the toner transfer drum, yeah that may require some research.

That’s a plotter, and opensource plotters do already exist. Problem with em is that they lack speed and precision to print small text.

Plotters are problematic, due to them beeing very very slow and that everthing they print has to be converted into a vector first.

I remember that video! For sure worth a watch

Yeah inkjet printers will probably never be opensource, due to the fact that the tiny nozzles are impossible to produce without owning a semiconductor fab that can build stuff in the mems realm.

Laser printers could be the way to go, they sound more complicated, but all the components needed for them are getting cheaper. A laser is focusable to a tiny spot, meaning one can use non mems elements. Basically take a laser engraver (the type with the fixed laser head and those 2 spinning mirrors), point it at a high voltage drum, lase the pattern (removes the charge from parts of the drum), add the toner power and then roll over paper. For color just replicate that x3.

I think a Opensource Black/White laser printer should be possible at a price point of maybe 600$ in components (3d printers also started out at that price point then got cheaper). I doubt it would be as quick as commercial models but it should be doable.

me too

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/G1rAhsd7DKk

language uhhh it finds a way

the video i took this frame from was probably re-encoded a few times till it found me…i assume maybe someone upscaled/smoothed it at some point to remove increasing re-encoding artifacts

wtf there is no ai in this, this is just a seal that got its fur rubbed the wrong way on its head