Turning inkjet printing on its ear

[unixronin]

yndy pointed out this announcement about Australian company Silverbrook Research's new high-speed pagewidth inkjet printing technology.  Some technical questions exist, but it looks as though this could revolutionize inkjet printing.  How would you like a $200 A4/letter size printer that prints one full-color page per second?  Maybe a photo printer that spits out a 4"x6" full-bleed print every two seconds?  How about a 51" wide-format printer that prints photographic images that can print a four-FOOT by six-FOOT full-color photo poster in six to twelve seconds?

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[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

I recall seeing a continuous ink system that emptied a 500 foot roll in under 5 minutes. It black ink on news print and was meant for that market. They had a bin after it that stacked it up and it took another 30 minutes to roll it back up. It was compatible with the industry standard paper handling systems and they said it would feed into that, be cut, folded, collated, bound, etc at the end. It got rid of the need to make a stamping. This was in the early 80s.

Wow, they've recreated the full width dot matrix printer all modernized. It had a huge head of single pins that spanned the width of the paper, two offset rows. Hideously expensive and I can't recall who made it. Very high speed. As fast as a band printer but with graphics capability.