Found one after a minute of looking: https://hackaday.io/project/167446-diy-inkjet-printer
this post was submitted on 26 May 2025
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Yes!! A 2d printer that you can assemble with 3d printed parts. Let's do it. Which technologies can we use to 2d print that are easy to assemble?
Well.... There is quite a bit of high precision manufacturing needed for the actual print heads... Something like a Dot Matrix straight from 1990s should be doable by people with appropriate CNC machines and shit, something like "Line Typers" (1950s-1970s automatic computer operated type writers) are manageable if you can precision mold metals
But an ink jet or laser jet? Naw big dawg that shit is complicated as fuck
If you can somehow manufacture the ink head, an ink jet printer is like 2 step motors and one really complicated print head on rails
Or if you can use existing cartridges, you would skip a lot of work. They have the print heads embedded in them nowadays.
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Today my HP printer asked my for my GPS location, to allow me to scan a document. Like why? Why is it required to use a basic option?
HP printers are shit, I don't want one even if you pay me. Buy a office-class B&W laser from Brother and never worry again.
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Because NSA.
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At least you were able to communicate with it.
I feel so blessed by having small laser black only printer that just works. Never again ink printer
Every time this is brought up someone has to remind people that printers watermark whatever they print with a unique ID in barely readable type. That's, for example, why they refuse to print something in black when yellow is low. And it's a legal requirement.
That is only specific brands like HP with only specific models as well.
https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots
Your own link says that as of 2017 assume all new printers print some form of tracking
Watch me buy a 1990s hunk of shit laser jet as big as my desk just to fuck with feds
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Black and white printers can't do that, but as I mentioned in another comnent, if you do have a color printer, add lots of yellow dots before you print it out.
Even worse was my Epson MFP.
Me: Want to scan a page
Printer: No can do
Me: But why?
Printer: I'm outta yellow ink.
Me: How's that relevant to the task of scanning something?
Printer: 🖕🖕
It took a dive from my balcony right into the dumpster bin.
How else will the police track your documents back to you without invisible fingerprints.
If you've got a printer that does that, add lots of yellow dots to your document before printing it.
Yes please. Printers are so annoying and it's a racket.