RITI Printer Uses Your Coffee Grounds For Eco Ink

Jason S. writes to tell us that for those seeking to "go green" or those just wishing to try something different, RTI now offers a printer that uses coffee instead of ink. In addition to recycling your grounds, the printer also uses good old fashioned elbow grease to move the grounds cartridge back and forth, saving power. Sounds like a novelty that will die quickly as human sloth reasserts itself. "Hosted by Core77 and Inhabitat, this year's Greener Gadgets Design Competition resulted in an incredible crop of innovative consumer electronics designs, and we're excited to offer you the first scoop on some of our favorite designs! Jeon Hwan Ju's RITI printer works by replacing environmentally un-friendly inkjet cartridges with the dregs from your daily coffee. Simply place used grounds in the ink case, insert a piece of paper, and move the ink case left and right to print text."

Comments

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[llZENll]

if you run out of coffee, you can brew up some TPS reports!

Compost

[mcgrew]

But if I use my coffee grounds for ink, what will I mix with eggshells to put in my garden?

Re:Compost

[colesw]

Well after you see your terrible printouts you can shred your paper and put it in the garden?

(not a gardener, I take no responsibility for your plants)

Re:Compost

[Anonymous Coward]

obviously you have never ran out of toilet paper

Re:Compost

[amRadioHed]

To bring another fact into the debate, leaves aren't wood.

Yum, yum. Recycled, recycled Kopi Luwak

[auric_dude]

Make the best brown pigment but is a bit pricey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak

Meh!

[srussia]

Maybe OK for all those all those twee sepia prints. Tell me when I can use my blood (magenta), my wife's blood (cyan), and our urine (yellow). It would surely be a lot less painful and cheaper than the current state of affairs.

It has some limitations....

[Het Irv]

It can only print "hyper-text" and java code... Apologies to drs305 and JoshuaRL for stealing their comments

Re:Coka-Colaâ

[cbiltcliffe]

The ink would corrode the paper completely away.

even greener

[bugs2squash]

use sequestered carbon in a filament, contained in sustainably-harvested wood sleeve.

Move hand around to create "printouts".

Re:Coka-Colaâ

[pdabbadabba]

Singularity!

PC LOAD COFFEE

[taxman_10m]

What the fuck does that mean?

It uses the grounds?

[Duradin]

And here I thought someone actually found a use for the burnt to a crisp more acidic than battery acid sludge that is supposedly break room coffee.

Old news

[bugnuts]

I have a mug-shaped coffee printer. Currently, it can only print 'o', but I suppose that's good enough if you're a ghost in UO.

Re:Old news

[eliphalet]

It's the Brown Ring of Quality!

Re:Supply

[Anthony_Cargile]

Same here. Make one that can do this AND turn empty red bull cans into paper, and I'll never worry about my printer again (Once I write the drivers, more than likely.)

Re:Colored Pie Charts

[machine321]

Browns come out quite well.

Re:Supply

[Anonymous Coward]

right, but you'd only get a week of free ink + elbow grease before BOOOOOOOM your heart explodes.

Re:What else are you going to use used grounds for

[cbiltcliffe]

Brewing your PHB's java?

Re:Coming soon

[EveLibertine]

You underestimate the amount of beer that the 10 Canadian guys who watch the Stanley Cup Playoffs drink.

Re:Colored Pie Charts

[master5o1]

Perfect printer for Ubuntu then!

UPS

[tsnorquist]

Looks like the perfect printer for UPS. "What can brown do for you".