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.
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NoiseDesign - Dec 14, 2007 9:47:45 am PST #3852 of 25497
Our wings are not tired
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
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.
tommyrot - Dec 14, 2007 10:28:24 am PST #3855 of 25497
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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
There are such benefits to living with a tech god.
§ 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.
Liese S. - Dec 14, 2007 12:34:32 pm PST #3859 of 25497
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I have two, err, four in this one room. Probably more elsewhere that I'm not thinking of. But srsly, dude, that amount of speed could significantly help my workload. I'd need one that could do 11x17 and duplex, but if you get me those features, baby I am there.
DCJensen - Dec 14, 2007 1:42:46 pm PST #3860 of 25497
All is well that ends in pizza.
want: [link]
§ ita § - Dec 14, 2007 1:58:14 pm PST #3861 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
An article to drive home how insecure email really is.
Google's not doing anything scandalous or insecure by giving you context-related ads. Really, not.