Inkless Printer
Since cellphones have cameras now, someone came up with a brilliant ideas for your camera photogs out there to prints your pics via your cellphone without INK! How does it work? That was the first question I asked too. It seems that this compact printer uses plastic paper with thermal properties. These thermal properties react to different temperatures which is supposed to deliver great quality.
To create the perfect colors, the printer uses a method that controls the colors by using temperature. The crystals in the top yellow layer need the highest temperature and shortest time to melt, the magenta (which is the middle layer) needs a lower temperature and longer time, the bottom cyan layer requires the lowest temperatures and longest exposure time.
How technologically savvy is that? The pictures are water proof too :) I really would like to have one. Any takers? :P
Creation of Zink Imaging from US.
The Inkless Printer is set to be out in late 2007 for $200 bucks. I don’t know how much it would cost to replenish those thermal papers. Probably more expensive. I guess we shall see.
Source: GadgetCool
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March 22nd, 2007 at 8:57 pm
What interest me most at this point of development is: What does it take to get this produced, i.e. what chemicals are used, savety policy, availability materials, etc. when I look at it from a environmental viewpoint. There are many gadgets to like and to have in posession, the main thought here is the results of production on the long run and thinking into futures (non-finacial).
March 23rd, 2007 at 1:59 am
Sandra, I agree with you that people keep inventing stuff but most of them don’t last long in the market. But this printer without ink thing has been a dream for a ton of people. I’ve personally been waiting for such a day to happen. And even though this is just for cellphones, i am sure if works well, perhaps PC can have their share of this thermal paper printing. If and when it does, it is going to be a long running one – as in inkjet printers might just be replaced with this.