Not exactly. While the images you send them are usually about 300-600 dpi, the halftoning is rarely done at 600 or less.
At 600 dpi, AM halftone dots are painfully visible, and even FM halftones can be distracting and lead to a defect usually called “color noise”.
Fair, and I admire them for trying. I was just pointing out that these specs are closer to a 10-15 yo laser printer, which is likely cheaper to buy and print with.
If they were producing q laser printer of similar specs with open firmware I’d be first in line to get one.
… supports 600 dpi black-and-white printing and 1,200 dpi color.
Ouch. 600 DPI black and white and “1200 DPI” color resolution is very low for an inkjet.
The big missing detail remains price.
At these resolutions I’d rather get a laser printer that’s well supported in Linux no matter what the price is.
Like working on open source projects?
In light of recent mass layoffs I’d be quite interested what options of making (plenty of) money you think exist for developers that don’t actively make the world worse.