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		watmough on Aug 6, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why aren't there any Open Source laser printers? There's nothing to stop you trivially scripting either of these. I expect Thunderbird or Mail can run scripts on incoming email, so you could have a printing, archiving, grepping, forwarding email account, if you liked.

bradgessler on Aug 14, 2011 [–]

I want to run a server on the printer; not run the server on a PC that's hooked up to a printer.

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