xan,
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There is a well-established tradition of making and iterating upon designs of 3D printers, but...Has anybody thought "I am going to make a 2D printer"? This feels like a gap. Sometimes, I just want to compose a letter to my grandmother or do little a mail merge, as a treat. Expandability would be great; Centronics, RS-232 and RS-485 interfaces would be fantastic, with maybe an embedded PostScript.

Am I insane?

HeNeArXn,
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@xan the only attempts I'm aware of that are not reusing an existing printhead and aren't plotters are this guys: https://hackaday.io/DerM4209

xan,
@xan@xantronix.social avatar

@HeNeArXn I'm totally fine using an off-the-shelf bubble jet cartridge, that shit's too fiddly for my mild disposition

Doxin,
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@xan AFAIK the main issue is that the print heads are very hard to DIY.

Yeah you could build all the other bits and then use a proprietary print head but what's the point of that?

xan,
@xan@xantronix.social avatar

@Doxin Iteration. Fun. And bragging rights of having a printer that one could safely sleep at night next to without needing to keep a handgun nearby.

gizmomathboy,
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@xan I think I've seen a decent amount of plotter type things that use nice pens and such

I haven't really looked into them though

I've definitely seen some get nice creations from them though

Also, you are not insane

xan,
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@gizmomathboy I'm talking, bubble jet printer here

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