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New IBM Ultra Fast Printer

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the only-a-half-a-millionbucks dept.

avxo writes "CNN/Money is reporting on a new IBM printer, that can print Tolstoy's "War and Peace" in less than a minute, by delegating pagination to a separate unit." Fully loaded it runs a million bucks. Plus the 330 pages it can print in a single minute is probably triple the pages I printed so far in 2005. I'm probably not the target audience *grin*

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  1. Re:But.... by p0ppe · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.printers.ibm.com/internet/wwsites.nsf/v wwebpublished/4100home_ww
    http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/

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  2. Re:head spinning by cms108 · · Score: 5, Informative
    yep... 330 pages per minute would be a bit crap if you'd paid a million quid for a printer.


    but from the article... "Print at up to 330 linear feet (100.6 m) per minute (1,440 2-up duplex letter impressions or 1,354 2-up A4 duplex impressions)"


    so it actually prints at 330 feet per minute... which works out at about 1440 pages per minute. which is a bit better.

  3. Re:oh goody by AnomaliesAndrew · · Score: 5, Informative

    I work at a junkmail factory (as an in-house enterprise solution developer). We produce, personalize, and mail between 6 and 9 million pieces of mail every day of the year. We're already using "outdated" multi-color inkjet technology that prints over 1000ft per minute at over 3ft wide and it works great. We have like 6 of these machines and they cost only like $100,000 each.

    I didn't RTFA, but this seems almost as silly as Goodyear anncouncing they've developed a new "fossil fuel internal combustion powerwed 4-wheeled personnel carrier" for $90,000 when there's already been cars on the market for years at ~$15,000.

    Nothing to see here. I'm serious.

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