{"id":252,"date":"2012-05-29T19:46:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T00:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/?p=252"},"modified":"2012-05-29T19:47:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T00:47:15","slug":"my-introduction-to-open-source-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"My Introduction to Open Source Printing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not open source as much as legal clone.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not naming names until I test it, but for less than half of the cost of replacing the cartridges for my Epson R2400, aka &#8220;the big ass printer&#8221;, I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new set of &#8220;never empty&#8221; cartridges that never go to %0 and can&#8217;t be re-used\n<li>An insultingly huge amount of UV dye. I got less hair dye than this in a bottle of Manic Panic, and now I have nine bottles of dye.\n<li>Refill syringes so I can not make a huge mess refilling things\n<\/ul>\n<p>The problem we R2400 owners have is tiny cartridges that cost $20 each and that dry out, die, or get eaten by grues when they&#8217;re not used.  I&#8217;ve spent over $80 on ink in the past month and made only a couple dozen prints.  My studio is too dry or my printer is broken or I dunno, but I&#8217;m ready to jump ship if this ebay purchase works out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not open source as much as legal clone. I&#8217;m not naming names until I test it, but for less than half of the cost of replacing the cartridges for my Epson R2400, aka &#8220;the big ass printer&#8221;, I got: A new set of &#8220;never empty&#8221; cartridges that never go to %0 and can&#8217;t be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacking","category-reverse-engineering","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.flatline.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}