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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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HP insists you must use their cloud printing service, covers USB port with sticker (yiffit.net)
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[โ€“] vox@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if you mean computer software and driver stack, there's unix cups and various open source printer firmwares for linux.

[โ€“] Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The problem for me is scanners. I need a printer with a scanner, but scanning seems to require installing proprietary drivers :(

So I realized I probably need a printer that doesn't require a computer to use. It's ridiculous that it came to this, but there are printers that can print from USB and scan to a USB device. They seem to be rare though.