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New Inkjet Technology 5 To 10 Times Faster
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.
The Inkjet is well and truly dead. Overpriced Ink did it. The public have gone over to cheap color laser printers and they're not coming back. G A M E O V E R.
My trusty Canon LBP5200 Color Laser Printer is just fine and dandy thank you. I would have looked at the HP, but I couldn't work out if their Laserjets were Laser printers or Ink jets. That has to be the dumbest product name HP ever came up with.