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Smallest Color Picture Ever Printed Fits Inside a Human Hair (www.ethz.ch)

Posted by samzenpus on from the getting-small dept.

Zothecula sends news about the tiniest color picture ever printed. Gizmag reports: "Scientists have created a picture that only fleas could truly appreciate. That's because the inkjet-printed image takes up an area no larger than the cross-section of a human hair. The picture of a few clownfish in their sea anemone home measures just 80 micrometers x 115 micrometers for a total area of 0.0092 square mm. Researchers from ETH Zurich University and the startup Scrona have been named the new holders of the Guinness World Record for the world's smallest inkjet color image, which they created using '3D Nanodrip' printing technology created at ETH Zurich."

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  1. Smallest? by pushing-robot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The picture of a few clownfish in their sea anemone home measures just 80 m x 115 m

    Err...

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    1. Re:Smallest? by phantomfive · · Score: 3, Informative

      The Slashdot summary removed the "micro" symbol, so it should have been 80um x 115um.

      It should also be emphasized that it was the smallest ink jet printed picture, because some of these are probably smaller.

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    2. Re:Smallest? by ItsJustAPseudonym · · Score: 3, Funny

      measures just 80 m x 115 m

      Yeah, but think of the size of the "hair" that it fits within.

  2. I was there by paiute · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sadly, the printer ran low on magenta after ten printings and I had to drive down to Staples and pick up a new cartridge. $69.95 seemed a bit steep.

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  3. To boldly go where no unicode has gone before. by mrsam · · Score: 3, Informative

    The size is not given in meters, but micrometers. As in "um", where "u" is a unicode character that News For Nerds[tm] is still trying to implement, on this side of the 21st century...