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Because its been around for only a short while, when they start becoming full use in every household. That's when they will start sucking a lot.

3D printers are priced properly, need good software and don't scam you. There literally exists ink cartridge packs (costs pennies to make) that cost more than some printers, the cartridges don't empty, have tamper protection so you can't refill it or use another brand's, and the software is garbage.

this article doesn’t have the whole answer but it’s insanely good

www.theverge.com/tech/641940/...

My brother's a bell-end

it's the extra D

you ever heard of a 2d printer hobbyist/enthusiast? me neither.

So it's YOU! 😱

We lost the right path after dot matrix printers.

We should make 1D printers to further test this.

Because they are made to suck.

well they have like 50% more

enshitification.

There's a lot that can physically go wrong with 3D printers, but I don't think I've ever hit "print" and had the printer never get the print job, or had an update make the PC forget the printer, or had it complain that I was out a different color filament than the one I was printing with.

But I still have a magic box that can turn plastic string into physical objects, so... I mostly don't care/deal with that when they happen? My 2d printer basically only has similar levels of problems when it runs out of ink, which my 3d printer simply stops and does nothing when that happens

I'm not too sure that's it exactly; 3D printers have gotten tons of other features like auto-leveling, AI print monitoring, etc. I think it's more that bc 2D printers are ubiquitous, people need to buy them, so the companies can get away with not caring bc what are they gonna do? Not buy a printer?

Because people wouldn't buy em if they didn't improve them. They used to suck way more and got better 2d Printers are too indispensable so there's no real pressure to improve them

Can't have a paper jam.. if you don't use paper.

Most 2D printers are sold at a loss. 3D printers are not.

It's one more D so it's better

Inkjets are terrible if you don’t use them very often, and they’re also the cheapest 2d printer, so they’re what people who don’t need a printer very often get

We live in 3d so of course 2d printers don’t work right. We are tapping into someone elses dimension

'cause modern computing, of course!

Because 3D printing takes know how and regular maintenance, in fact it encourages it. Meanwhile, most 2D printers like you to think it's some eldritch magic incomprehensible to mortals.

Simple Just use your 3D printer only print in 2D 😏

2d printers have had more time to become anti consumer

They are not, I assure you.

Because 2D printer companies haven’t run 3D printer companies out of business yet.

Most unrealistic fantasy scene in a movie film was when Harrison Ford in the Fugitive, broke in somewhere, booted up a computer and printed out a document. With no problems.

The third D stands for Dreliable

The oligopoly hasn't been established yet. 3d printers will be enshittified just like everything under capitalism.

Because a lot of industries don't charge an arm/leg/spleen for ink in a 3D printer. Although, I don't see people printing out resumes in 3D plastic... Yet.

well when the cheapest thing about buying 2d printer is buying the printer, that may be the problem.

2D printers are an effective monopoly, and the companies that make them exploit their monopoly power to push an inferior product into the market designed to benefit themselves more than the consumer. 3D printing is a highly competitive market and they are trying to sell to customers.

You say that now. Wait until someone wants 3 large articulated dragons just in time for the nozzle to clog.

I used to work in IT. Consistently the worst thing was always printers. They never worked right, and every issue was unique. Even if it was the same issue, the solution as unique, every single time. And the tech never once improved. It never got better over time. Printers are hell.

The fact that inkjet printers work at all is a modern miracle of science, they’re *incredibly* complex and technical machines considering how much they cost …that and monies prob Also fun fact printer ink costs more to buy per ounce than liquid gold, but they produce it for pennies 👉🏻

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