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'Revolutionary' new cheap printer to come march 21?

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her34

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the video is impressive




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real or vaporware?

if real i think it would have biggest impact on piracy. college students have the know how to use new technology like this and also have the incentive
 
Very interesting. I guess we'll find out whether it's vaporware or not in 9 days, huh? If it isn't, and he's planning on actually selling the printers himself (whether he manufacturers them or not), he's gonna be biting at Bill Gates' heels very soon, along with possibly putting quite a few printer manufacturers out of business.
 
Cliff's notes: a MEMS device that has multiple nozzles instead of a moving print head.

Sounds implausible, but if they can make it work then it'll be something.

@OP: College students primarily don't pirate print, though a super-fast photocpier would make it easier. But the real impact of a system like this is far larger: a very fast printing system with virtually no moving parts, even if the quality is mediocre, would be game-changing. If it works, anyway.
 
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i think college students will be printing up a lot more books now instead of being ripped off by bookstores
 
There must be a reason why this hasn't been done before. How could it be so cheap? I don't think the quality would suffer since it's basically the same as any other printer except more nozzles.
 
I find it odd that

a company which holds more than 1400 patents
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has never released a single product.


With how it looks like this works, it could obviously be sold for way more than "under $300."

 
hmmm. I'm dubious: that wide format printer is printing so fast that the data would have to be going at ridiculous speeds - maybe someone more tech minded could work it out, but an A1 image (the first one through looks even bigger than this) prints in about 4 seconds. Thats about 200mb that has to be sent fro the computer, processed, sent to the print heads...

I'll eat my words and buy one if I'm wrong (my A1 prints take about 20 minutes!)

Besides you loose one nozzle you get lines right down your prints - and have to replace the entire print head!
 
That print "head" has to be a monster. How many nozzles is that per ink cartridge? Ink distribution would be a nightmare.

Viper GTS
 
Originally posted by: getho
hmmm. I'm dubious: that wide format printer is printing so fast that the data would have to be going at ridiculous speeds - maybe someone more tech minded could work it out, but an A1 image (the first one through looks even bigger than this) prints in about 4 seconds. Thats about 200mb that has to be sent fro the computer, processed, sent to the print heads...

I'll eat my words and buy one if I'm wrong (my A1 prints take about 20 minutes!)

Besides you loose one nozzle you get lines right down your prints - and have to replace the entire print head!
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You put a fast enough RIP on it, it should work fine. They're not showing the delay from clicking the print button to first sheet out, just showing it in the process of printing. I've seen black and white wide format (albeit laser-based) printing that quickly.
 
Originally posted by: Viper GTS
That print "head" has to be a monster. How many nozzles is that per ink cartridge? Ink distribution would be a nightmare.
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Originally posted by: getho
Besides you loose one nozzle you get lines right down your prints - and have to replace the entire print head!
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hmm good points...
 
I'll be interested to see what comes of this. It looks stupidly fast in the video. They're making some pretty big claims, let's hope they can back them up.
 
Originally posted by: her34
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i think college students will be printing up a lot more books now instead of being ripped off by bookstores
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What's preventing the pirating of books is the cost of ink not the slowness of printers. I bet they still charge of fortune for ink with this printer.

 
Originally posted by: zephyrprime
Originally posted by: her34
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i think college students will be printing up a lot more books now instead of being ripped off by bookstores
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What's preventing the pirating of books is the cost of ink not the slowness of printers. I bet they still charge of fortune for ink with this printer.
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About to leave college soon myself, and this is absolutely true. It's ink cost + paper cost + time to pirate books than to print it out faster. There's no reason a high tech faster printer will change any of that dynamic.

Also, I always encourage fellow students to plan ahead and simply do library searches. Most libraries will ship books to your local library here in SoCal, so you can search pretty much an entire network of books and have them sent to you. Nothing illegal, even encouraged. Also sometimes older editions are ok with the professors as long as you just simply ask. This always doesn't work out, but I've saved a ton of book money over my 5 years simply by getting books at the library.

Break the system the legal way! 🙂
 
i was thinking about this today... i wonder what ever happened to it? this technology was suppose to revolutionize printers or something... but seems like it never materialized
 
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