Anyone here familiar with the new generation of printers coming down the pipe?
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DCJensen - Dec 14, 2007 4:48:48 am PST #3845 of 25513
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Sean K - Dec 14, 2007 6:40:43 am PST #3846 of 25513
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Anyone here familiar with the new generation of printers coming down the pipe?
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WOW! Holy crap, those are fast printers!
sumi - Dec 14, 2007 6:46:18 am PST #3847 of 25513
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Man, they really are.
§ ita § - Dec 14, 2007 6:47:21 am PST #3848 of 25513
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What's the time to market of those puppies?
Gudanov - Dec 14, 2007 8:14:27 am PST #3849 of 25513
Coding and Sleeping
Is there any information on how they work? I'm guessing they have print heads across the width of the output or something.
DCJensen - Dec 14, 2007 8:56:27 am PST #3850 of 25513
All is well that ends in pizza.
Early next year says most sources
Wikipedia: [link]
From a news story:
Memjet-powered printers shoot ink through 70000 nozzles to print a color, 8 1/2 x11 page in a second.
Link to another news story from last March, that says
Silverbrook plans to offer the Memjet technology as part of several products: a photo printer, which the company hopes to sell for less than $150; the 8x10 color inkjet, due to arrive at the end of 2008 for under $200; a label printer; and a large-format photo printer, expected to cost about $5,000, and capable of printing poster-sized prints "twenty times faster than anything I've ever seen," LeCompte said.
Liese S. - Dec 14, 2007 9:25:43 am PST #3851 of 25513
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Wow. If that ends up not being vaporware, I'm totally in the market.
NoiseDesign - Dec 14, 2007 9:47:45 am PST #3852 of 25513
Our wings are not tired
Yeah, if those come out I'll be buying one. I've got a printer that does around 18ppm on a moderate setting and when I'm printing out 100 page scripts and treatments it still feels way too slow.
DCJensen - Dec 14, 2007 10:02:44 am PST #3853 of 25513
All is well that ends in pizza.
Looking at all the articles I can google, it doesn't seem like vaporware. At least the usual markers of secrecy are not as ping-inducing.
Just looks like print evolution.
I just encountered it today, so I'm willing to believe there may be issues I have not read yet...
Gudanov - Dec 14, 2007 10:14:24 am PST #3854 of 25513
Coding and Sleeping
Reading about the technology makes it sound reasonable that it can print that fast. I'm a bit wary over reliability with all of those many, many printheads.