Thursday, December 14, 2006
AKMA's great idea - printers go green ::
In his post "LazyWeb: OS Printers" AKMA proposes the brilliant and simple idea of a good enough repairable reusable printer:
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In his post "LazyWeb: OS Printers" AKMA proposes the brilliant and simple idea of a good enough repairable reusable printer:
isn’t there an opportunity for a company to manufacture printers specifically designed to be reparable, reuseable, and refillable — precisely the attributes that the present instant-obsolescence printer industry resists? Can’t someone on the LazyWeb develop a standard chipset and reservoir design that do a good-enough job for most family and small-office purposes, that can be repaired and refilled rather than replaced?Like him, rather than replace our current elderly and somewhat temperamental ink-jet with a newer but doubtless equally disposable printer, I'd love to buy a printer that I expect to be running in ten years or twenty, we can do it for cars, so why not Lazers?
Labels: pc
¶ 11:11 AM
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My laser printer drum needs replacing but the part costs another $100 more than buying a new laser printer containing exactly the same drum. Do I treat the new printer as 'packaging'?
By 
Stephen G, at
December 14, 2006 12:47 PM
Exactly, with an "Open Source" printer (i.e. one whose specs and design were standard and public property) the drum must cost less than the printer, because then we'd have a free(r) market...
Hey, this is a horrible rightwing conspiracy...
By Tim, at
December 14, 2006 2:49 PM
