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Check out the Worlds fastest printers!
http://www.memjet.com/popup_1.html
You have just got to watch this short video of the world’s newest, fastest inkjet printer….. developed in Sydney! An unbelievable leap in print technology.
The driver chip is an integrated printing system that calculates 900 million drops per second and drives 70,400 nozzles in a standard A4/letter printer, delivering color page-width printing at 60 pages per minute.
The video, shows label, wide-format and A4 printers outputting at near offset speed. -
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😮 😮 😮 😮 stunning. That puts the JV5 to shame!
I want one! 😀
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that’s incredible 😮
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No good to me. I like to have a cup of tea while the job prints.
Steve
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A mate of mine has worked out it will print a 1370mm x 250m roll in 45 minutes. Based on rates here, that’ll be $15,000 per hour. Imagine if you found a typo during the print. By the time you pressed esc, you’d have lost 10m of material 😕
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Amazing! What price do those babies come in at?
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quote Harry Cleary:Amazing! What price do those babies come in at?
The A4 printer will sell for $200 apparently. I’d suggest he will be ‘approached’ by the major players and offered ‘silly money’ for the patent before that happens though. He’ll be a millionaire without even selling one, if I was asked to guess. 😛
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quote :a large-format photo printer, expected to cost about $5,000quite a bit cheaper than most printers? but as Shane said the technology will probably disappear as most new stuff does.
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amazing… brilliant!
now all we need is some cowboy to buy one and he will be selling 1m x1m prints at a pound each, thinking easy money! 😕 some people havent a clue about marketing what they have… really makes me sick….
on the other hand… thhis bit of kit hitting our trade is really going to ruffell feathers in more ways than one. 😉 😛
im gonna go and read up on it properly now. only watched the video 😀
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quote Robert Lambie:amazing… brilliant!on the other hand… thhis bit of kit hitting our trade is really going to ruffell feathers in more ways than one. 😉 😛
im gonna go and read up on it properly now. only watched the video 😀
just what i was thinking Rob, if they suss out solvent printing with it, then things will change suddenly ! though, from the point of signmakers currently doing digital, it might not be a good thing as it’ll bring down the prices, making the machines more accessible to the likes of me, or worse ! but, even so, would be fantastic for poster printing etc,
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it may be fast, but that dosnt worry me, some people prefer slow and reliable!
Have the inks been developed to match the speed? that dry before they get rolled up? otherwise you would need a very long workshop….
Peter
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Peter if you read through all the blurb there is a bit about having to use the right sort of ink and different inks clogging the print heads.
Have to agree with you there is nothing wrong with slow !!
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maybe UV inks peter…
i know little about them, just researching but i have worked for years with UV adhesive with my stained glass business. its like using a silicon… thick gunk… hit it with a UV lamp and its rock solid in a second or two.
as i said, not sure if UV inks work in the same way but from what i have read this is the impression it gives me.
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quote Peter Normington:it may be fast, but that dosnt worry me, some people prefer slow and reliable!
……………… on thursdays
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Robert, its not a UV ink from what I read, it is a water based ink of some sort
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I think we all miss the point in truth.
Like all technology, this is a starting point. Getting the speed and print quality he has achieved, I imagine, would be the hard part.
The inks will be the next step for them to refine, but given specialist ink manufacturers out there now, I’m not sure that will be a big concern in the overall scheme of things.
UV inks, 5 years ago were a pipe dream. Now, they can print to glass on a flat bed, and the UV inks are dry and ready to touch a second or so after the final pass.
This machine will cause as many problems in the industry as it overcomes. The bloke that sent me this does not know for sure, but he suspects the expense is in the inks and running costs. Anything operating at that speed, I’d imagine has higher failure rates on components….
Certainly goes faster than most small sign shops need, and the bigger shops would probably be more interested in a superwide format.
The market that would be interested in this would be designers and advertising agencies. New technology at such a Low entry price would be attractive, even without the speed. That is a huge chunk of my market 🙁
But that said, an impressing piece of technology all the same….
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No way. Its gotta be spoof!!!
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quote Peter Shaw:No way. Its gotta be spoof!!!
its not unfortunately mate. The guy that sent it to me has negotiated the manufacturing and buying flat bed and solvent printers from China, and associates in these research circles.
He is as stunned with the performance as everybody else.
I was talking to an offset printer today. This video is circulating through those channels too. This worries the offset industry more than ours, from what he says.
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quote Marcella:quote Peter Normington:it may be fast, but that dosnt worry me, some people prefer slow and reliable!……………… on thursdays
:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
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Wouldn’t mind a photo printer for home. How awesome is that. I can hit print on my camera and format at the same time and I’ll have a copy of all my photos before the camera has finished formatting.
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OMG that’s quick! I want one! 😀
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What sort of substrates does this printer use, are the uv,solvent, if not can it be applied to the outdoor use, is so then i might as well place my order from now utnill it comes out…
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jimdimitris,
website currently says its water based.
this seems a few years off from the website statement. They say in 2008 they’ll aim to tackle the office market as in A4 sized printers.
By their own calculations the wide format market is their smallest market.
But it would be awesome to have this speed. Although I don’t currently need it 😛
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Well in all honestly with something like i could retire in like 12 months without a sweat given the current work load….
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what happened to the link?
Cannot seem to find the video or no mention of the wide format on the website now.
was it an early april fool?
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quote stepen wood:what happened to the link?
Cannot seem to find the video or no mention of the wide format on the website now.
was it an early april fool?
cheers
stephenI’m pretty sure the link was removed because it generated too much interest, and it is not even in production yet (nor will be for a year or two yet) I think the views generated by UKSB’s may have been a contributing factor 😳
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Hey guys try this link out seems to be working fine
http://xantus.vox.com/library/video/6a0 … 4685e.html
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