• certified_expert@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Repeat after me: plastic does not recycle. It inevitably degrades in the process.

    Regarding printers… ink tanks is the only sensible answer.

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      9 minutes ago

      We also need some sort of way to prevent heads from drying out so quickly.

      Printer companies know heads dry out, and they ship tanks with caps / tape for prevent dry out on retail store shelves. But once the tanks are installed, printers just leave the heads exposed to the air. Like a pen without a cap, the tanks dry out.

      I print like 5 times a year. So 90% of the time, when I’m replacing a tank, it’s because the damn head dried out.

    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 hours ago

      Laser is the answer. Inkjet dries and clogs the jets if not used often like back when it was invented. Hardly anyone prints like that anymore.

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        2 hours ago

        Only problem with laser is the desk size for color laser. If you don’t print very often, and you want color, a laser can take up space.

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      5 hours ago

      Community ink tanks, with pipelines to transmit the ink from where it is mined to substations, and on and on.