Reparaible and open source paper printer

A new repairable, open-source printer is pitching itself as the anti-printer-printer: compact, refillable, customizable, and supposedly built to last instead of dying the second your warranty expires. It can use regular sheets or a paper roll, print weird sizes like banners and strips, and even lets you swap in your own 3D-printed parts. On paper, it sounds like a dream for anyone who has ever screamed at a printer and lost. But the community reaction? Very much “cool idea, now prove it.”

The biggest mood in the comments is cautious excitement mixed with old-fashioned printer trauma. One commenter dragged in a previous discussion to remind everyone that inkjet printers are way harder to build well than they look, basically warning that this kind of project can crash into reality fast. Others zoomed in on practical worries: will rolled paper curl up and refuse to lie flat, and will replacement ink be cheap or become the next expensive headache? Then came the skeptical zingers. One person joked that using a paper roll feels like “cheating” because paper feeding is the part that always jams. Another dunked on the site itself, saying the image loading had “gone on a lunch break.”

So yes, people love the idea of a printer that’s open, fixable, and less wasteful. But because this is still a crowdfunding pre-order, the comment section is serving a familiar internet cocktail: hope, side-eye, and printer-induced emotional damage.