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The repair data we publish from community repair events can be incredibly powerful. It can help us advocate for more repairable products and pro-repair policies.\u00a0That’s why Repair Caf\u00e9 International and partners founded the Open Repair Alliance in 2017.<\/p>\n

Recently, our UK partner The Restart Project has launched \u201cPrintCat\u201d, a fun opportunity for everyone to get involved in analysing data on over 800 broken printers brought to Repair Cafes, Fixit Clinics and Restart Parties around the world.<\/p>\n

We all know that printers can be frustrating, easy to break and hard to fix. We want to understand why printers fail so that we can tell policymakers how future models can be made easier to repair. Repair reduces waste and lessens the strain on our planet\u2019s resources.<\/p>\n

How you can get involved<\/h4>\n

Head over to PrintCat<\/a> and join the investigation. You\u2019ll be presented with information about a broken printer and you\u2019ll be able to select the most appropriate fault from a comprehensive list.<\/p>\n

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Once you\u2019ve selected an option, you\u2019ll be presented with information on another printer. The more printer faults you can categorise, the more we learn! PrintCat shows each printer to three people to help confirm the right category. If you want to learn more, you can join a conversation about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why printers, and why now<\/h4>\n

Until now, there\u2019s not been any regulation on printers\u2019 repairability. Since 2012, printers manufacturers have had a \u201cvoluntary agreement\u201d at EU-level, aiming to \u201creduce the environmental footprint\u201d of printers, and exempting them from formal regulation. Manufacturers are currently discussing a new version of the agreement, and the draft version<\/a> we\u2019ve seen is extremely weak on repair. If approved, manufacturers would not commit to make spare parts available for printers priced below \u20ac 350.<\/p>\n

What we hope to achieve<\/h4>\n

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We hope our findings will help make the case for more ambitious measures tackling repairability of printers.<\/p>\n

And we also hope many people will enjoy contributing to PrintCat<\/a> and learning more about why printers fail. Over the next few months, there will be more opportunities to analyse data collected at repair events. We’ll keep you posted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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