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New Inkjet Technology 5 To 10 Times Faster

Posted by kdawson on from the 1600-dpi dept.

sarahbau writes "Silverbrook's new Memjet technology can print 60 full-color pages per minute. Instead of having a print head that moves side to side like current inkjets, the print head spans the full width of the page, containing 70,400 nozzles in the A4 version. They also have a large-format printer (51") that prints 6" to 1 foot per second. Products are expected to start shipping in late 2007: first a photo/label printer, then a home/office printer for less than $300 in 2008." The video is amazing. If it's for real, the technology would be disruptive at half the speed and twice the price.

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  1. Ink by ByteSlicer · · Score: 5, Funny

    With the cost of ink these days, one might as well use it to print sheets of money...

    1. Re:Ink by ravishjunk · · Score: 5, Funny

      ... and still at massive loss!

    2. Re:Ink by Hal_Porter · · Score: 4, Funny

      Even tweakers don't try to inject ink with a syringe. You crazy bastard. Hope you're using a ink with a water soluble pigment.

      Does it get you really fucked up though? Not that I'm interested or anything...

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    3. Re:Ink by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Nothing that a q-tip and a little alcohol can't fix.

      The alcohol is for after you get fired for buying a shitty printer. The q-tip ... well, I'm not really into that.

    4. Re:Ink by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you want to print some pictures, just upload them to wal-mart or something. I don't know about everyone else, but pictures are not something I print a lot of, and many things I do print would quickly exhaust ink cartridges. And as the parent stated: clogged cartridges suck. Who as a home user uses their printer frequently enough to keep that from happening? This is not a problem with laserjet toner.

      Game over, SCHecklerX wins the thread.

      Seriously, why are we even having these conversations any more? Ooh, a new way to clog up your ink cartridges! Mod me troll if you want, but why we're still debating (heh! not even, it's DEAD!) the pros and cons of inkjet technology is beyond me.

      To recap: You want to print a little? Spend the money on an LJ, becuase an underused IJ clogs up.
      You want to print a lot? Spend the money on an LJ, because it's more cost-effective.
      Want to print pictures? Go to Wal-mart like the man said.

      Come on folks, do yourselves a favour: take your inkjets out to a field somewhere, crank the Rap tunes up to 11 and have at 'em with a baseball bats. You know you want to.

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  2. Another breakthrough by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not only is the new ink jet print head 6 times faster they are also 10 times cheaper. Except, of course, they use ink that is 100 times more expensive.

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    1. Re:Another breakthrough by kestasjk · · Score: 3, Funny

      A more complex substance? Concrete may be a complex substance but that has nothing to do with the price; it's about abundance, and oil is much more abundant than ink.

      Maybe when a lucky Texan strikes black, yellow, cyan, and magenta gold ink prices will plummet, but until then..

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    2. Re:Another breakthrough by ColdWetDog · · Score: 2, Funny
      and oil is much more abundant than ink.

      Haven't you heard of ink wells? No? I guess they haven't been popular for a while, but in my day we saw lots more of them than the new fangled oil wells. Smaller and quieter too.

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  3. Re:Sweet by Silver+Sloth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ironically the paper industry isn't neccessarily the tree killer it's often made out to be. For a significant chunk of the world, for example the north of Scotland, the only realistic crop to grow is timber, and, that nealy always means timber for the paper industry.

    Anyway, I'm sure the trees have a good life and are killed in a humane way, not like the battery trees we used to have.

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  4. What you say!!! by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny

    I tried to get a Memjet, but accidentally bought Memejet instead. Now all I get are pictures from "All Your Base," "Yatta!," "Real Ultimate Power," and that guy in the homemade Tron costume.

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  5. Re:Deja vu? by Notquitecajun · · Score: 4, Funny

    I could swear I've heard this approach mentioned before. Is anyone else getting a sense of deja vu?

  6. Lest we forget the pleasure of owning inkjet. by jchap · · Score: 2, Funny


    "Instead of having a print head that moves side to side like current inkjets, the print head spans the full width of the page, containing 70,400 nozzles in the A4 version"

    Head cleaning in progress - Please wait.

    Print nozzle check pattern.

    Head cleaning in progress - Please wait.

    Print nozzle check pattern.

    Head cleaning in progress - Please wait.

    Print nozzle check pattern.

    Head cleaning in progress - Please wait.

    Print nozzle check pattern. ...

  7. Re:Whats old by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 2, Funny
    because a bunch of silicone was cheaper than the stuff needed

    See, that's what they WANT you to think. But the bunches of silicone get them noticed, and pretty soon, there's a $25,000 court case, and they're gone along with half your salary for the next umpteen years...

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  8. Re:It is real by Liberaltarian · · Score: 1, Funny

    So, since I've seen a person who has seen one of these prototypes in real life, and now you have read it on slashdot, it is basically confirmed :-)

    You certainly have a keen grasp of the average Slashdotter's evidentiary requirements!

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  9. Memo to self by mattr · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't announce next paradigm-breaking product just before April Fool's Day.

    Sounds nice but I'll believe it when I see it. How about a print sample blowup?