Is there any information on how they work? I'm guessing they have print heads across the width of the output or something.
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Gudanov - Dec 14, 2007 8:14:27 am PST #3849 of 25497
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DCJensen - Dec 14, 2007 8:56:27 am PST #3850 of 25497
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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 25497
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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 25497
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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 25497
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 25497
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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.
tommyrot - Dec 14, 2007 10:28:24 am PST #3855 of 25497
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Memjet-powered printers shoot ink through 70000 nozzles to print a color, 8 1/2 x11 page in a second.
What's next? A printer that has one nozzle for every possible pixel on the page, and then prints the entire page at the same time? I figure that would be 643,125,000 nozzles....
Then a printer that can print an entire ream of paper at once, with 321,562,500,000 nozzles....
DCJensen - Dec 14, 2007 10:29:35 am PST #3856 of 25497
All is well that ends in pizza.
Apparently memjet just bought more facilities in Idaho in September.
Australia to Idaho...interesting choice.
Apparently they hired a retired HP printing guy to run the company.
Bill McGlynn spent more than two decades at Hewlett-Packard as the once-small company grew into a printing powerhouse. He was part of the team that brought the country the first LaserJet printer in 1984. Now, he is chief executive of a little Treasure Valley company you've never heard of, Memjet Home and Office, marketing new printer technology that an analyst says could change the printing industry. Memjet-powered printers shoot ink through 70,000 nozzles...
Pix - Dec 14, 2007 10:31:21 am PST #3857 of 25497
The status is NOT quo.
Yeah, if those come out I'll be buying one.t jumps up and down
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§ ita § - Dec 14, 2007 10:40:28 am PST #3858 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Looks like they'll be very accessible to even the non-godly. Not that I have a printer hooked up, or anything.