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03/21/2007 09:32:26 PM · #1 |
I just saw this - amazing new printing technology due to shake up the printer market in the coming year. Wow!
Edit - site's down, mirror here.
Message edited by author 2007-03-21 21:35:25.
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03/21/2007 09:49:42 PM · #2 |
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03/21/2007 09:56:33 PM · #3 |
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03/21/2007 10:02:06 PM · #4 |
| That's insane. I keep waiting for the "april fools" banner to pop up. Is this company for real? |
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03/21/2007 10:06:23 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Gatorguy:
That's insane. I keep waiting for the "april fools" banner to pop up. Is this company for real? |
They are real and for real.
A normal printer uses a single ink head that scoots across the paper.
I believe this si the same technology that uses a 1 mm tall inkjet head that is the width of the paper that basically prints across the page simultaneously while the sheet feeds rather then going back and forth across.
EDIT YUP
"The ultra fast speed of the printers is partly due to their 'pagewidth' format. Unlike conventional inkjets, the printhead spans the full width of the paper and does not need to shuttle from side to side."
Message edited by author 2007-03-21 22:07:55.
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03/21/2007 10:06:44 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Gatorguy:
That's insane. I keep waiting for the "april fools" banner to pop up. Is this company for real? |
Looks like it down in OZ. I found this on USA todays website. //www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kevinmaney/2005-12-13-patent_x.htm
"3. Kia Silverbrook, Sydney, 801. When Australia's patent agency marked its centenary in 2004, it celebrated great Australian inventions ΓΆ€” such as vegemite. The country isn't much known for invention. On the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's 1997 list, no Australian appeared in the top 100. The secretive Silverbrook, though, runs Silverbrook Research, and he has zoomed to No. 3 with inventions such as a tiny ink-jet printer that can fit in a mobile phone." |
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03/21/2007 10:08:43 PM · #7 |
Holy shitz. Where do I order and when can I charge it to my credit card. Damn thats amazing!!!!!
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03/21/2007 10:09:09 PM · #8 |
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03/21/2007 10:10:52 PM · #9 |
someone get me one of them icons where the smiley's jaw drops on the floor!
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03/21/2007 10:11:16 PM · #10 |
| I can't wait to see the reviews of the photo quality of the prints off that machine. |
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03/21/2007 10:18:58 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
someone get me one of them icons where the smiley's jaw drops on the floor! |
 holy shitz
Message edited by author 2007-03-21 22:19:46.
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03/21/2007 10:22:06 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by Gatorguy:
I can't wait to see the reviews of the photo quality of the prints off that machine. |
Ditto! If its good it will make event printing ROCK!
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03/21/2007 10:24:11 PM · #13 |
It looks like they might all have a motion blur effect.
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03/21/2007 10:36:39 PM · #14 |
| I'm curious what the print quality is like. It could print 100 pages a second but if the print quality sucks then what's the point. |
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03/21/2007 10:48:24 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by Megatherian:
I'm curious what the print quality is like. It could print 100 pages a second but if the print quality sucks then what's the point. |
The print head is wide as the page and does not move. Imagine how much faster your injet would be if the print head doesnt have to go back and forth it prints 1 line as fast as it prints 1 CM normally.
Thats why it works. Its just a really wide print head.
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03/21/2007 11:06:58 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by Megatherian:
I'm curious what the print quality is like. It could print 100 pages a second but if the print quality sucks then what's the point. |
I would say that from this quote:
"The ink nozzles are arranged in lines, with 1600 nozzles per inch. These can produce more than 2.5 million ink dots per square inch of paper in a single pass. (The screen you are reading this story on has approximately 10,000 dots per square inch). These tiny nozzles can fire out ink droplets smaller than one picoliter (one millionth of a millionth of a liter). This produces tremendously sharp prints, say analysts."
The quality of the image is gonna be outstanding. I know you can't really tell in the video but even those looked perfect.
I will be all over this one when it finally hits markets. |
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03/21/2007 11:09:04 PM · #17 |
Yeah butt ell me the ink was dry when that print landed on the next LMAO!
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03/21/2007 11:12:13 PM · #18 |
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03/21/2007 11:22:22 PM · #19 |
Originally posted by RainMotorsports:
Yeah butt ell me the ink was dry when that print landed on the next LMAO! |
Also from the article:
"The very small size of the ink droplets is important, because it helps the ink dry in less than a second. This is a critical factor in high speed printing without smudging." |
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03/21/2007 11:25:49 PM · #20 |
| Well gee, that all sounds perfect. |
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03/21/2007 11:31:45 PM · #21 |
I'll believe it when I see it the stores. The article sounds legit, but the video looks like preprinted paper shooting out of the printer or rolling out of the lager printer.
faster, better, cheaper, more ink, fast dry . . . I hope it's true.
The ink cartridge, 50ml for less the $20 is the kicker. Epson and HP make tons of cash on the ink cartridges. I read somewhere they cost about $1 to produce. Nice profit margin. I also read the HP would have been in the red a couple of years ago had it not been for the profits from the ink jet cartridges. You can bet they will do their utmost to protect that market.
We'll see.
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03/21/2007 11:33:05 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by skylercall:
Well gee, that all sounds perfect. |
And there's the reason for caution. Any time a new product is announced and the words "sounds" and "perfect" occur to you, watch out.
That said, I really hope it turns out to be perfect!
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