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There is a market for simple, reliable, inexpensive, maintainable equipment.

I do not want my car to run its own OS or to get over-the-air updates. Any update for my car should be installed with a socket set.

The fact that we still have not standardized on a (very) few kinds of CMYK toners for laser printers and CMYK print heads for inkjets is an indictment of the people at the top of every printer company.

Ryobi promised to use one battery on their 18V cordless power tools many years ago. They stayed with it through the switch from NiCd to LiIon. I still buy ONLY Ryobi One+ cordless power tools.

Will someone please standardize on one or two 9" wide toners (for 8.5x11 and A4 paper,) and one or two 12" wide toners (for 11x17 and A3 paper?)

Make the toners standard and every business that hates stocking dozens of models of toners will flock to your company.

They do not have to the world's bet toners. They just have to work. I suggest the use of a common and freely-copied toners from a laser printer whose patents have expired.

The printers do not have to be tiny. Leave an extra few inches of height to allow for extra capacity toners that only business customers will buy.

>>Recycl+(OP)
I think I remember a light hearted Sci-Fi story from when I was growing up where the machine spoke with the repairman to guide him on repairing it.

That could seriously happen with LLM AIs. Imagine a hardware switch that activates a single board computer (SBC) with a mic, a speaker, a connection to the printer or copier to read status messages, and a LLM that cam answer questions about the device.

Companies (and secretaries) would love the one brand of printer or copier that helped you fix their machine.