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Originally Posted by taustin
Printers aren't washing machines, and there are reasons why they should not be pushed too far. Unfortunately, I don't have the time or inclination to watch a nearly hour long piece to find out how credible the claims are. Any kind of brief (and non-video) summary anywhere?
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Apart from historically based research about the lighbulbs, artificially added weakening to nylons and how planned obsolescence in general is now part of design teaching, the documentary follows the spanish guy with the printer on his research:
When the counter was full you got an error message saying the printer needed tech maintenance and refused printing.
When contacted Epson service they said "get a new printer" By digging deeper the guy found said counter chip on one of the printers PCBs and a piece of software by a russian hacker resetting it.
Et Voilą; the ah-so-broken printer automagically worked again...
Further there were shown smarter design flaws for printers: make the jets the way they need frequent cleaning and the wasted ink not easily cleanable from the printers inner parts.