physorg.com— Two researchers from The College of Judea and Samaria in Israel have designed an ink-jet printer head that could lead to printers capable of chugging out 1,000 pages per minute ? or even more.
Sep 21, 2006View in Crawl 4
Reminds me a bit of this printer from the 1970's at a defense contractor I used to work with. This crazy thing took up half a room and was surrounded by bullit prof glass because of the insane speed the print drum spun around. You had to wear hearing protection to be around it. I have no idea how many pages per minute it printed, but paper (from a roll about 30" wide) literally flew out the back of it thing.My favorite part, in case of a paper jam, the thing had its own fire suppression.
In a Continuous Feed situation (large roll of paper, cut into sheets further down the line) this could definitely give lasers a run for the money if they can get the reliability up to market expectations. Drying is definitely an issue for cut sheet at this volume but so is feeding. I don't think sheet feeders can top 150 sheets/minute meaning you'd have to gang a couple of them up to keep the print engine running at top efficiency. CF, on the other hand, would be an ideal fit. This could be very disruptive technology.
itanshiSep 22, 2006
use a hose, yo
cbdgrSep 22, 2006
Think of what Fred Flintstone would say. Yabba Dabba Doo, does it take clay tablets?
willp2Sep 22, 2006
Reminds me a bit of this printer from the 1970's at a defense contractor I used to work with. This crazy thing took up half a room and was surrounded by bullit prof glass because of the insane speed the print drum spun around. You had to wear hearing protection to be around it. I have no idea how many pages per minute it printed, but paper (from a roll about 30" wide) literally flew out the back of it thing.My favorite part, in case of a paper jam, the thing had its own fire suppression.
vegangSep 22, 2006
Is it still going to make my pages all goopy and curled?
olegkSep 22, 2006
what they forgot to mention is that it can only work for 0.001 min
chimpadinkSep 22, 2006
This one goes to 11...
tommaszSep 22, 2006
In a Continuous Feed situation (large roll of paper, cut into sheets further down the line) this could definitely give lasers a run for the money if they can get the reliability up to market expectations. Drying is definitely an issue for cut sheet at this volume but so is feeding. I don't think sheet feeders can top 150 sheets/minute meaning you'd have to gang a couple of them up to keep the print engine running at top efficiency. CF, on the other hand, would be an ideal fit. This could be very disruptive technology.
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