God I hope there's enough engagement on this tweet that they actually do it.
I don’t really understand why or how it’s happening, but my HP LaserJet printer connects to Wi-Fi less and less reliably every year. I want to upgrade to a color laser, but: (1) Wirecutter's current rec is for another HP, and (2) it's $750.
The HP inkjet I got in 1997 was far more reliable, even before we switched from parallel to USB. And it could print banners!
My cheap HP laser printer got sent to the bin as it suddenly won't accept non-hp toner anymore. (Just stopped one day - I guess there as a firmware update).
What little text I print I do so now on my Canon 300 Pro which actually is a photo printer. (Don't want to know the actual cost of a print out).
This Tweet is not saying that they are working on a printer. I wish it said that somebody works on an open printer, but I don't think it should be Framework. Framework are doing a good job pushing the laptop/desktop computing products down the pipeline.
Putting aside that the title and the tweet very much do not line up since there is no announcement that they are in fact making printers...
This would be interesting and would love to see it, but I just can't imagine it would be viable financially. The scale just doesn't line up for a company of this size.
How many people have printers at home anymore, and even if they went after offices looking at only a couple per (most) offices at most unless you are specifically an organization that does a lot of printing.
Laptops, yeah one per person. Printers, 1 for every few hundred employees? Would they even sell enough for it to make sense for a brand that is not as well known as the major players.
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 24.9 ms ] threadIt's probably just trying to complain about printers (a computer-user pastime probably about as old as ... printers) in a humorous way.
Why not make the printer a fully open source project where the guiding is done by framework but maybe most of the work f comes from the community?
I don’t really understand why or how it’s happening, but my HP LaserJet printer connects to Wi-Fi less and less reliably every year. I want to upgrade to a color laser, but: (1) Wirecutter's current rec is for another HP, and (2) it's $750.
The HP inkjet I got in 1997 was far more reliable, even before we switched from parallel to USB. And it could print banners!
What little text I print I do so now on my Canon 300 Pro which actually is a photo printer. (Don't want to know the actual cost of a print out).
This would be interesting and would love to see it, but I just can't imagine it would be viable financially. The scale just doesn't line up for a company of this size.
How many people have printers at home anymore, and even if they went after offices looking at only a couple per (most) offices at most unless you are specifically an organization that does a lot of printing.
Laptops, yeah one per person. Printers, 1 for every few hundred employees? Would they even sell enough for it to make sense for a brand that is not as well known as the major players.