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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 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. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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?