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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. So much for the paperless office by gelfling · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Weren't we all promised that at the dawn of computing?

  2. Maybe it's just me, but... by DarkVader · · Score: 3, Insightful

    wouldn't it be more cost-effective to use a bank of 10 33ppm printers?

    You get your output just as fast, initial cost is lower, maintenance cost is likely to be lower, and if you get a failure on one unit, you're only down 10% of your printing capacity, instead of 100% of your printing capacity.

  3. Re:Printers these fast are very dangerous. by stienman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Print admins should have had a process in place to place jobs that required more than an estimated 500 pages into an administrative approval queue.

    They probably do now...

    -Adam

  4. Re:Maybe it's just me, but... by jonbryce · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Do you need to combine them?

    Think of a bank producing bank statements, as long as all the pages for one customer come out the same machine, it doesn't matter that the statement for another customer is sitting on the out tray at the other side of the room.