Help us learn more about printers with PrintCat
Printers can be frustrating – easy to break and hard to fix. Join PrintCat to help us learn why they fail and push for more repairable future models
Redesigning the inkjet printer – work in progress
This week we participated in the first of three workshops organised by the People’s Design Lab. It was an opportunity to learn from others with a background in design about their frustrations with printing. Interestingly, initial conversations revolved around a deeper question: why should we print at all? Why is it that certain airlines and […]
Let’s rethink and Restart the inkjet printer
On many occasions, the meticulous work of our wonderful Restarters has helped to clean, repair, defeat planned obsolescence and give a second life to printers that were just about ready to be taken to a recycling centre.
Triumphing together against planned obsolescence
I am not a technical person. It may seem strange, being one of the founders of this project, but perhaps that is always what makes me good for this. The technical stuff not only frustrates me – it also really intimidates me, just like most people. When I first saw The Lightbulb Conspiracy, a documentary […]