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

Stupid idea

[SnarfQuest]

This has to be a really stupid idea, but that is what many of these "green" ideas are.

Used coffee grounds for ink? You will not get consistant darkness, and it will probably bleed so much that the printout will be completely unreadable. Just try draw anything on paper using coffee. Regular ink-jet ink tends to bleed like crazy, some random crap isn't going to work better.

Manually operated print-head? Do they specify the number of times you are going to have to pump the thing to get a single page printed? If your arms aren't sore after printing out that 100 page general ledger, you should get an automatic invitation to the next olympics.