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[–] unreachable@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

printer is one odd bunch of computing output devices

when other types of output devices (such as monitor display, hdmi, usb, etc) evolves and improved over decades, printer is bring so much little into the mix

[–] Bene7rddso@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

They evolved backwards. Back in the day you sent the raw text over the parallel port and it just printed it

[–] vicfic@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 2 years ago

They have tho. Like, they have made it cheaper. And the new inktank models are economically efficient.