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World's Fastest Inkjet Printer?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-didn't-print-that-many-pages-last-year dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Brother Industries has just demonstrated what they say is the world's fastest inkjet printer. The prototype uses a revolutionary new static head array to achieve amazing speeds of around 150 full colour pages per minute."

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  1. And yet... by theGreater · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...to prove how insanely great the print quality is on this thing, the author of said article provides a very lossy jpeg scan as evidence. Having said that, if they can get 600x600 at > 100 PPM, I'm all in.

    -theGreater.
  2. How are they going to dry those pages? by cplusplus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Okay, 150ppm for A6. How wet are those pages? And A6 is a very small piece of paper (about 1/4 the surface area of 8.5x11). My guess is that if you wanted a somewhat dry, smear proof 8.5x11 piece of paper, the speed of that Brother printer would be at most 30-40ppm (which is still fast for ink!).

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    "False hope is why we'll never run out of natural resources!" - Lewis Black
  3. Re:time-space tradeoff by graphicsguy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It may be possible to set up a continuous ink system . I know, for example, that inksupply.com offers continuous flow ink systems that use some tube connections to feed the cartridge directly from bottles of ink. (but they currently only support Epson)