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A piece of paper on an old printer (a laserjet 4050 to be specific. It says: "Hello, My name is LaserJet 4050 and I was made in 1999. I’ve been doing my job printing your documents for many many years, however I think the motor that powers my paper feeder is bad. This makes me sad because I’m not able to do my job very reliably. As such, I am formally presenting this document as a letter of resignation. IT is working on finding a replacement for me, but for the time being, I apologize if I tell you I have a paper jam. Please allow me to refer you to my coworker, LaserJet 3390. 3390 resides outside of Ray’s office and can be reached at: Please accept my sincerest apologies for failing. Thank you for replacing my toner and restocking my paper tray. It’s been a wonderful 14 years of working together. Much love, LaserJet 4050
We need open source laser printers, to avoid the inkjet mafia as far as possible.
Printers are complicated and patent encumbered. Framework took a look at making one, and they noped right out.
Lots of tech more than 20 years old and thus free from patents available to use. Lots of office printers are older than that, still!
But yeah, making them reliable is haaaard
A dot matrix should still be doable no?
Afterall, most of the times we are just printing documents, right?
Just need to get rid of the LOGO requirements, or use a separate stamp for it and you're good to go.