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If this turns out to be real, we can all have wide format printers..
Make sure you watch the video doen the page a little. The inventor is an Australian..
http://texyt.com/silverbrook+memjet+technology+available+desktop+photo+wideformat+hp+edgeline+comparison

And about time, is all I can say. One of my friends works there and I've been sitting on that gossip for a very long time now. Finally they're public! It's such a great technology for people who print, and the results are quite nice. I dream of getting one to play with.

I'll bet the other printer manufactures view that technology in horror.

.02cents for B&W page and .06cents for colour page.

Ivanerrol wrote:I'll bet the other printer manufactures view that technology in horror.

I doubt it - given most of their revenues come from ink not the printers themselves, this is likely to get more people buying printers than before, thus (inevitably) more ink.

Half the reason I don't print at home (and use ink) is because the cost is too prohibitive (compared to $0.18 per 6x4 at my local chemist) and it takes too long to print. This technology, on the other hand, would result in me consuming a whole LOT more ink as I'd be printing left, right and centre (rather than being selective about what I'd print at the chemist).

Cheers

Leigh

Ivanerrol wrote:.02cents for B&W page and .06cents for colour page.

I suspect that this is a raw ink cost, without taking into account the DRM and fiddly plastic packaging. They're using big tanks of ink in the prototypes... I don't see you lot being allowed to do things that way. As Leigh says, the money in this game is from the consumables.

It is tremendously cool to have effectively an IC with ink nozzles built into it, but a complete b'stard to build the chip. My guess is that Silverbrook will license the technology, and since they have good connections with Canon I wouldn't be too surprised to see it appear in their gear.

Just wait for the 1DsIII - the "direct print" button really will be a direct print button... the photo will spit out the side of the camera.

Can someone tell me where the paper is coming from in the A4 printer?

moz wrote:Just wait for the 1DsIII - the "direct print" button really will be a direct print button... the photo will spit out the side of the camera.

The Canonolaroid!!!!

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phillipb wrote:Can someone tell me where the paper is coming from in the A4 printer?

Out of the paper tray underneath the output tray - just like my G95 (I can't see it's input tray when pages come out of it at a snails pace either).

digitor wrote:The Canonolaroid!!!!
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Sounds painful - do they have a topical cream for that?

hart wrote:Sounds painful - do they have a topical cream for that?

It is. No cream, but more like an operation they can do. Here's a pic:

You guys are severely twisted...

http://www.o-dub.com/photos/sx70/

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