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Ok and I thought having our inground pool installed crooked was bad. Where you able to get any legal/financial clawbacks because of all the hassle?

Translating for folks not natively familiar with millimeters - this is 25cm, or about ~10 inches.

Doesn't sound like a lot, but you're losing a foot and a half across a dimension of a house. That's very easily into the "Bathtub doesn't fit" territory.

That's awful. I hope you were able to recover damages from the builders

Most of the 5 petabytes is a model used to determine if your sharpies are counterfeit.

Weirdly it turns out to be cheaper/faster than paying a human being to do the same thing in use cases where you have large concrete slabs with complex walls/casework layout

Don't give them ideas.

You beat me to it!

do you have sharpie that won't grind down to zero on concrete after 3ft ?

Thank you. I wondered immediately on seeing this if HP had just acquired those guys.

So Dusty is for SMBs and SitePrint is for clueless Corporations, like Oracle.

epic slashdot post fellow redditor. here, have this thinkgeek tshirt that says "no i will not fix your printer". le epic

+ If your subscription expires while it's printing, it freezes and you have to carry it back home.

I think the market is more towards industrial scale sites like data centers and Amazon warehouses and factories where equipment installation is happening right behind JIT layout.

Places where high precision matters and services aren’t connected to the endpoint at the slab. That’s not most construction because progressive refinement is how most things are built.

You have adjusts due to its detectors and it has a prism on it and is being continuously tracked by a total station.

It can correct course due to deviations in floor surface or obstructions pretty well.

The Logo Turtle was originally a robot. The on-screen turtle was added later to make Logo and its pedagogy economical for the computers schools were likely to have (a single Apple II per classroom, if that).

agreed, though I can see it making some sense in those specific situations, e.g.:

>PCL reduces cost by 86% on interior curved lines layout at Vancouver airport

for random bits of complicated-shape fashion in a giant flat open area, I can see how it could almost immediately pay for itself.

that said... at that point it's probably competing with "we put a projector on the ceiling for a day, and went over the lines with chalk". which is quite cheap.

Some small builders probably will because it will make business sense for their specific business.

And others will because some builders are as attracted to gee-whiz its new and shiny as in any other business.

(1) As much as people complain, home inkjet printers do a remarkable job of printing high quality art reproductions and photos at low cost relative to alternatives, (Sure offset litho is cheaper… if you are running 10,000 prints)

(2) The key to this using quality materials. You’ve got to use good coated paper (which is relatively expensive.). You can mostly trust OEM ink although I found low-end EcoTank printers use ink that fades in six months although the higher end models like the ET-8550 are better. Look at forums and you will find many versions of “I was trying to print borderless and all I got was this inksplosion” and the common denominator is third party inks. There could be testing of third party inks that proves they are comparable to or even superior too the OEM links but as it is there is no testing because… they target a consumer who doesn’t care.

TBH my LaserJet 451dn died recently and I bought brother colour 3270cdw. The quality of colours is awful, almost unbearable. I remember I could print a photo with HP but the Brother fails that task spectacularly for some reason - quickly colours go to overdrive and bleed

We find it pencils out on jobs with large OH /pan deck slabs or SOGs over 12000SF