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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."
But if I use my coffee grounds for ink, what will I mix with eggshells to put in my garden?
Free Martian Whores!
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.
Set your phasers on "funky"!
The ink would corrode the paper completely away.
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
use sequestered carbon in a filament, contained in sustainably-harvested wood sleeve.
Move hand around to create "printouts".
Nullius in verba
Singularity!
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What the fuck does that mean?
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.
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.)
Browns come out quite well.
You underestimate the amount of beer that the 10 Canadian guys who watch the Stanley Cup Playoffs drink.