1,000 Page Per Minute Printer

[dbarrow]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4278

Marcus Yam - September 23, 2006 11:21 AM
...the Applied Physics Letters, which details an ink jet print head capable of printing ~1000 pages per minute. ...
...Researchers Moshe Einat and Nissim Einat have designed a print head called JeTrix that is conceptually similar to that of a LCD monitor. The printer head features micro-reservoirs of ink, and each reservoir is responsible for an element on the page, just like how each pixel is represented on an LCD monitor. Traditional ink-jet heads need to move back and forth across paper, but this new concept enlarges the print head to the cover the entire sheet. This allows a page to be printed in just one process, which explains the remarkable printing speed. ...

*WOW! Now I can waste an entire ream of paper in mere seconds!
Just think of the price HP can get for an ink cart for this baby!

[PeteF]

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*WOW! Now I can waste an entire ream of paper in mere seconds!
Just think of the price HP can get for an ink cart for this baby!

Imagine in the future, you walk into the bookstore and there's
no books. You only have computer terminals where you sit down
and browse the books you might like to buy. You place your order
for the book you'd like to purchase and it's printed and binded for
you in a few minutes.

I believe in the future, the whole concept of manufacturing books,
music CDs, newspapers, magazines, videos, etc, and delivering them
by truck will become obsolete. With some exceptions, most things
will be transported electronically and produced at the point of sale.

---pete---

[Tortanick]

I'll miss shopping for books myself. Computers are convinient but when I don't want amazon its fun to browse a bit.

[PeteF]

I'll miss shopping for books myself. Computers are convinient but when I don't want amazon its fun to browse a bit.

I agree. There's no substitute for holding a book and flipping through
the pages. I hope the bookstores never go totally electronic and at
least have one hard copy of each book to browse through. My guess
is that they will go electronic and only have hardcopies on the most
popular books.

---pete---

[Seth]

A few day's ago I was talking to an employee of our city library. She had said library traffic had diminished significantly in the last few years.

That's no surprise since the library is now a poor resource for research when far more thorough and updated information can be found on the net.

I wonder how long it will be before libraries become obsolete?

[dbarrow]

Libraries obsolete? I don't think so, but they are changing.
Most have banks of computers and their system is setup to make searching easy with many ways to query the card catalog. Online services make it simple to order/reserve a particular book.
The Librarian is becoming very skilled in helping you use the computers to find what you are after.
Many libraries are offering more and more digital content through their systems.