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The open-source, DRM-free Open Printer shows off a working prototype (www.techspot.com)
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[–] HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 hours ago

Worse than that, the printer I have, a Brother MFC-J895DW, actively eats its own ink on purpose (in the name of keeping it from drying out). Like most people, we print infrequently and I noticed that like every other time we would go to print we would be out of ink. After a bit of searching I found out this was a known thing and it was done on purpose.

I now turn the printer on to print and off when not printing. I haven't bought ink in over a year. Yeah the print heads need to be conditioned if you go to long between prints, but so what.