$200 Dollar printer Can do 1 Page Per Second

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Silver Brook Research

New inkjet printer technology that analysts believe will revolutionize the imaging industry was unveiled today by secretive Silverbrook Research.

The company has released astounding videos of desktop, photo and wide-format printers that print pages and photos 5 to 10 times faster than products from current printer market leaders HP, Canon, Epson and Lexmark.

“This thing is gigantic, we've been in this business for 20 years and I've never seen something as mind boggling,” says Charles LeCompte, president of leading printer market analysis firm, Lyra Research.

“The technology will be available in products in late 2007, starting with a 100mm printhead that will be used for home and retail photo printing as well as label printing devices. An A4/Letter printhead will be available in 2008 with many different components and technology improvements planned for the future,” the company announced today.

HP, Canon and other printer manufacturers are described as "potential customers", by Memjet Technology, the main company established by Silverbrook to market and license the technology. The company expects the printers to eventually cost $200 or less, sources say.

Silverbrook has forecast printing costs for the 60 page per minute desktop printer at below $0.02 for black text, and under $0.06 for color pages (with 20 percent ink coverage), according to Lyra Research, which had early access to prototypes.

So When this takes of, it will be interesting to see if magazines will jump in to take home a larger profit.

Imagine printing a book in a matter of a few minutes, wonder how reliable is iit? Maintenance Cost?

Another source:
www.usatoday.com...

Kia Silverbrook, Sydney, 801. When Australia's patent agency marked its centenary in 2004, it celebrated great Australian inventions — such as vegemite. The country isn't much known for invention. On the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's 1997 list, no Australian appeared in the top 100. The secretive Silverbrook, though, runs Silverbrook Research, and he has zoomed to No. 3 with inventions such as a tiny ink-jet printer that can fit in a mobile phone.

Imagine your cellphone printing the evidence of an accident a few seconds after it takes place! Lawyers are already getting ready!

my guess is that the paper would be manual feed for a mobile-phone application...

while it may fit, printer + paper = more bulk... the current trend in phones is to get slimmer, or add more features within an acceptable size....

office phones (or whatever they're called) are bigger, but the general public don't want them..

Though the printer section may add unwanted bulk, I certainly can see this being used in a vending machine style scenario.

Plug your camera in, pay a couple bucks, and in seconds you have all your pictures. Would be great for amusement parks, etc. And it wouldnt be so damed sluggish like those kodak machines you see everywhere.

very true.. it would be nice not to have to wait half a day plus for your photos to be developed...

Originally posted by x08
my guess is that the paper would be manual feed for a mobile-phone application...

while it may fit, printer + paper = more bulk... the current trend in phones is to get slimmer, or add more features within an acceptable size....

office phones (or whatever they're called) are bigger, but the general public don't want them..

Yes, but the printer can be an ADD ON, easily plugged in via USB or Cell phone port. (How many IPOD users have bought an FM transmitter)

Actually now that I think about it, how come printers nowdays don't offer such a feature? a port for yor cell phone for you to print on the spot?