If anything, printers today are worse than they used to be in the 90s. For example, I don’t remember chips preventing you from using third party ink being a thing back then. So I believe the printing industry mafia has been spending those decades adding antifeatures to their designs.
And IMO it highlights how much we [society in general] need open hardware.
Google used to be better as well. And Reddit. And… well, enshittification affects everything, not just tech, but printers and food containing micro plastics and everything else we can buy.:-(
If anything, printers today are worse than they used to be in the 90s. For example, I don’t remember chips preventing you from using third party ink being a thing back then. So I believe the printing
industrymafia has been spending those decades adding antifeatures to their designs.And IMO it highlights how much we [society in general] need open hardware.
The old tractor-feed dot matrix printers never had great print quality, but they were built like tanks.
Absolutely.
Google used to be better as well. And Reddit. And… well, enshittification affects everything, not just tech, but printers and food containing micro plastics and everything else we can buy.:-(