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isn't there like a big difference between a printer and a 3d printer? are you really expecting one device to do both?
They are nothing alike and require wildly different mechanical systems.
Personally yeah, you can’t really stick a stack of papers into a 3d printer and print stuff as you need. Would be really cool if there was a way to use old printers and throw in a new nozzle. Maybe add an ink tank and try to work it that way maybe? We’ll be starting computer science in a uni eventually so might do that as a project. If we do that we’ll open source it so people can reuse old outdated printers from e-waste to new printers.
There have been scattered hobbyist takes on turning a 3D printer into a plotter (a 2D vector-based type of printer) because the moving around in two dimensions a 3D printer does for each layer is the exact thing a plotter would do with a pen on a sheet of paper. Here's one such project.
ah thanks for clarifying