Blazing new speeds in printing technology

Could this really be possible? This printer designed by the people at Silverbrook Research is going to change the way we use printers forever. Look at the insane speed of printing! What you are looking at is something clost to 30 pages of photos a min! Take a look at the other video links here, especially the wideformat printer demonstration. You will be left speechless. If it is all real that is.

According to them, Memjet technology is a patented breakthrough in print engine components that delivers the benefits of ink and laser technologies at radically new price/performance levels. Memjet technology is comprised of four tightly integrated components: page-width printheads, driver chips, ink and software. Instead of having the printhead zip across the page as in traditional inkjet pirnters, Memjet technology's printers have printheads that take up the whole span of the printer are lined up with ink nozzles right across and are able to fire out ink droplets smaller than one picoliter (one millionth of a millionth of a liter). For an A4 desktop printer, that's 70,400 ink nozzles shooting out more than 2.5 million ink dots per square inch of paper in a single pass. Is that amazing or what?

Not only that, this technology is also supposed to bring the price of printers and printer supplies to a new historic low. Silverbrook's A4 desktop printer's individual color ink cartridges hold 50ml of ink, and will sell for less than $20 each, the company forecasts. Silverbrook also says that the price of the printer will be under $300. US dollars that is.

You can find out more about this amazing new technology here. Meanwhile, it still remains to be seen if this is just one gigantic hoax or a printing revolution in our midst. There is nothing heard about print quality either. For now, archi students just have to send their submission panels 2 days earlier to get them printed out in time.

Which reminds me... time is running out for my Design Thesis submission. God help me!