New Inkjet Technology 5 To 10 Times Faster 291
sarahbau writes "Silverbrook's new Memjet technology can print 60 full-color pages per minute. Instead of having a print head that moves side to side like current inkjets, the print head spans the full width of the page, containing 70,400 nozzles in the A4 version. They also have a large-format printer (51") that prints 6" to 1 foot per second. Products are expected to start shipping in late 2007: first a photo/label printer, then a home/office printer for less than $300 in 2008." The video is amazing. If it's for real, the technology would be disruptive at half the speed and twice the price.
Ink (Score:5, Funny)
Another breakthrough (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ink (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sweet (Score:5, Funny)
Anyway, I'm sure the trees have a good life and are killed in a humane way, not like the battery trees we used to have.
What you say!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Deja vu? (Score:4, Funny)
Lest we forget the pleasure of owning inkjet. (Score:2, Funny)
"Instead of having a print head that moves side to side like current inkjets, the print head spans the full width of the page, containing 70,400 nozzles in the A4 version"
Head cleaning in progress - Please wait.
Print nozzle check pattern.
Head cleaning in progress - Please wait.
Print nozzle check pattern.
Head cleaning in progress - Please wait.
Print nozzle check pattern.
Head cleaning in progress - Please wait.
Print nozzle check pattern.
Re:Whats old (Score:2, Funny)
See, that's what they WANT you to think. But the bunches of silicone get them noticed, and pretty soon, there's a $25,000 court case, and they're gone along with half your salary for the next umpteen years...
Re:Ink (Score:4, Funny)
Does it get you really fucked up though? Not that I'm interested or anything...
Re:Ink (Score:1, Funny)
The alcohol is for after you get fired for buying a shitty printer. The q-tip
Re:It is real (Score:1, Funny)
You certainly have a keen grasp of the average Slashdotter's evidentiary requirements!
Memo to self (Score:3, Funny)
Sounds nice but I'll believe it when I see it. How about a print sample blowup?
Re:Another breakthrough (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe when a lucky Texan strikes black, yellow, cyan, and magenta gold ink prices will plummet, but until then..
Re:Ink (Score:5, Funny)
Game over, SCHecklerX wins the thread.
Seriously, why are we even having these conversations any more? Ooh, a new way to clog up your ink cartridges! Mod me troll if you want, but why we're still debating (heh! not even, it's DEAD!) the pros and cons of inkjet technology is beyond me.
To recap: You want to print a little? Spend the money on an LJ, becuase an underused IJ clogs up.
You want to print a lot? Spend the money on an LJ, because it's more cost-effective.
Want to print pictures? Go to Wal-mart like the man said.
Come on folks, do yourselves a favour: take your inkjets out to a field somewhere, crank the Rap tunes up to 11 and have at 'em with a baseball bats. You know you want to.
Re:Another breakthrough (Score:3, Funny)
Haven't you heard of ink wells? No? I guess they haven't been popular for a while, but in my day we saw lots more of them than the new fangled oil wells. Smaller and quieter too.