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[–] paholg@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Patents expire after, what, 20 years? I'd be happy with an open source printer based on 20 year old technology.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd take a tractor fed dot-matrix printer over my current one just so I could play with the paper thingies on the edges.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

You'll pay an arm and a leg for tractor feed paper though.