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[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

Getting the printer to pick up a single sheet off a stack of .003” thick sheets at a variable depth, and then dealing with variable sized-sheets, rotation, paper jam detection to avoid burning out motors, just to name a few. Things get even more complicated with things like 2-sided printing.

If it was just one of these at once, it might be pretty approachable, but the classic and convenient 8 1/2 X 11” paper tray that modern printers have is a genuine challenge to manage without lots of careful communication with all the different parts.

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

It can sometimes be hard to pick out a single sheet even by hand.
Having to do that with something having a much lower sensitivity definitely has quite a few challenges.

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