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		TeMPOraL on Aug 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Where are the robotic bricklayers? Printing is hard primarily because of misaligned business incentives, which form a bubble of suck that's eerily resilient to market optimization. Automating programming definitely seems like an easier target in comparison.

XorNot on Aug 4, 2021 [–]

Printing works really well. It's print drivers (software) that are an utter and complete mess.

I've never had a printer that didn't work: I've had plenty that wanted the correct offering to the HP website to be made and several hundred megs of adware installed before a postscript file made it to the actual hardware.

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