I happen to work for a furniture store. This feature already exists in a lot of office furniture and, occasionally, in some living room furniture. You will find it more often in an end table because those are usually placed closer to a wall. You will only find it in sofas and chairs, once in a while, if the piece already contains a motorized reclining mechanism. Otherwise, it's just not a practical application to add to those pieces of furniture. Not many shoppers would pay an extra $100 to have a power outlet pre manufactured into their sofa when they can just plug their device directly into the wall, or get a cheap $6 power strip that will do the job. Also, it would not make sense to put these into a coffee table, because coffee tables are usually placed out in the middle of a room and you would have to run a cord across the floor to power the table. Furniture makers do not want to be sued for tripping hazards.
Neither the article, nor the site tell you what powers the tracking motors. Are they electric, or solar? Also, I can find nowhere on the site that says if there is a way to block the light if darkness is desired!
One thing I haven't seen mentioned yet is that most of these label printers are THERMAL printers, meaning no cartridge / toner / drum / etc. to deal with - you just have to buy the thermal compatible labels. A great source I have found for the roll labels is: http://www.labelsdirect.com/ We use shipping labels to print sold tags and inventory tags for the furniture store I work at and can get a roll of 300 labels for about $7.00. Compare that to a package of sheet fed labels, along with the time it would take to deal with them, and the added toner/drum costs of a laser printer and you will see why most businesses go with the label printers for high volume output!
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Or, maybe for the recent YouTube app squabble? Maybe Google just got tired of Microsoft playing dirty and gave them a dose of their own medicine.
Sofa - http://www.rothmanfurniture.com/221-11502-4.html
Coffee Tables - http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/13-high-tech-coffee-tables-for-the-geeks/
Kitchen Table - http://www.sligh.com/home-office-furniture/Westlake-74%22-Dual-Purpose-Electronically-Enabled-Dining-Table-300BA-300/577
I happen to work for a furniture store. This feature already exists in a lot of office furniture and, occasionally, in some living room furniture. You will find it more often in an end table because those are usually placed closer to a wall. You will only find it in sofas and chairs, once in a while, if the piece already contains a motorized reclining mechanism. Otherwise, it's just not a practical application to add to those pieces of furniture. Not many shoppers would pay an extra $100 to have a power outlet pre manufactured into their sofa when they can just plug their device directly into the wall, or get a cheap $6 power strip that will do the job. Also, it would not make sense to put these into a coffee table, because coffee tables are usually placed out in the middle of a room and you would have to run a cord across the floor to power the table. Furniture makers do not want to be sued for tripping hazards.
Neither the article, nor the site tell you what powers the tracking motors. Are they electric, or solar? Also, I can find nowhere on the site that says if there is a way to block the light if darkness is desired!
Congrats! And, well done!
We've got a Dymo LabelWriter Turbo 330. We do anywhere from 20-100 labels a day with no problems. I have not used this on Linux; however, Dymo does offer a Linux driver for it here: http://www.dymo.com/media/Software/dymo-cups-drivers-1.2.0.tar.gz
One thing I haven't seen mentioned yet is that most of these label printers are THERMAL printers, meaning no cartridge / toner / drum / etc. to deal with - you just have to buy the thermal compatible labels. A great source I have found for the roll labels is: http://www.labelsdirect.com/ We use shipping labels to print sold tags and inventory tags for the furniture store I work at and can get a roll of 300 labels for about $7.00. Compare that to a package of sheet fed labels, along with the time it would take to deal with them, and the added toner/drum costs of a laser printer and you will see why most businesses go with the label printers for high volume output!
How about ImageMP ?