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New printer technology

Postby Big V on Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:16 pm

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
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Postby moz on Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:32 pm

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.
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Postby Ivanerrol on Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:53 pm

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

.02cents for B&W page and .06cents for colour page. :oops:
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Postby hart on Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:15 pm

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). :-)

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Postby moz on Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:27 pm

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


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.
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Postby phillipb on Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:38 pm

Can someone tell me where the paper is coming from in the A4 printer?
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Postby digitor on Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:51 pm

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!!!! :shock:

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Postby hart on Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:57 pm

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).
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Postby hart on Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:57 pm

digitor wrote:The Canonolaroid!!!! :shock:
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Sounds painful - do they have a topical cream for that?
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Postby Nnnnsic on Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:33 pm

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:

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Postby digitor on Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:09 pm

You guys are severely twisted... :shock: :lol:

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