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1) Many printers have a cleaning feature - a built in process that cleans print heads or toner feeds, transfer belts, etc. In every printer I've seen it's either run when needed from a menu selection on the device, or configurable to run at set intervals (e.g., every few thousand pages).
2) Single-purpose
printers are SO twentieth century. For a couple decades now the Multi-Function Device (MFD) that can scan, fax AND print has nudged aside the simpler print-only models.
SO... design the MFD to run every printed page under a scanner head just after the fuser output. When it detects lines or other defects on output that aren't part of the image stored in its buffer, it could initiate a cleaning sequence on its own.
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As long as it comes with the exact opposite as well ie the capacity to insert random glitches and errors to generate visually unpredictable abberations as printed outcomes. |
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You work for the company that holds the service contract? |
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And there was me thinking this was a self-MFDing idea. |
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But it certainly will be if/when someone points out an available printer with this feature. |
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Why would they do this when they can just make it self-clean more than necessary, using up incredibly profitable ink? |
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If you combined a roomba with a 3d printer, you could make a self- printing cleaner. |
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An inkjet addon to the shower nozzle in the bathroom could be a cleaning self-printer |
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A printer with a mini vacuum attachment to keep the shelving on which it sits next to your computer dust-free would be a shelf-cleaning printer |
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My antique printer has a pretty powerful cooling fan so all that would be needed would be a mount to hold the printer at an appropriate level to blow the dust off the shelf. |
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I miss the days of watching the big pen plotters scribble back and forth in an x-y grid at silly speeds. |
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A stick with a camera on it and a feather-duster could be a print-cleaning selfie. |
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Revision: Instead of relying on comparison between user-submitted jobs and output, the printer could have some reference images built in and scan its own test page at predefined intervals. This might give a more consistent result and also answer [Voice]'s Mar 10th concern that it wouldn't waste enough ink or toner to be profitable to the manufacturers. |
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