Category: innovation

April 10, 2008 • inkjet • innovation • printer • technology

Inkjet Printer Helps Split Water with Sunlight and Generate Hydrogen

Hello! Today we have some hi-tech news again, the “we found another use for inkjet printer” kind of news. So, there is a company, FUJIFILM Dimatix, that supplies drop-on-demand inkjet printheads for industrial applications. The company recently announced that researchers at the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University used its cartridge-based Dimatix Materials Printer… Continue reading Inkjet Printer Helps Split Water with Sunlight and Generate Hydrogen

March 27, 2008 • inkjet • inks • innovation • printer • technology

World’s First Cationic Inkjet Printer

Here is another device from the family of “The World’s Mosts and Firsts”. This is a wide-format Solara ion inkjet printer by Gerber. The printer can print on virtually any surface that is up 64 inches wide and up to 1 inch thick! When it comes to printing speed, the device covers up to 639… Continue reading World’s First Cationic Inkjet Printer

March 27, 2008 • inkjet • innovation • Kyocera • technology

Kyocera Creates World’s Fastest Inkjet Printhead

You may be pleased to know that Kyocera announced a development of the world fastest and industry widest drop-on-demand inkjet printhead. The KJ4 Series printhead that was developed in cooperation with Brother is claimed to print at speeds of up to 200 m per minute at a resolution of 600×480 dpi up to 150 m… Continue reading Kyocera Creates World’s Fastest Inkjet Printhead

March 11, 2008 • inkjet • innovation • technology

Inkjet Printer Can Now Make Solar Cells

One day you will get anything you want without going to local supermarket. The only thing you’d have to buy will be an inkjet printer. Using it, you will not just print images and text, but also get yourself other stuff for very day life. The scientists have adopted the inkjet printer for printing electric… Continue reading Inkjet Printer Can Now Make Solar Cells

December 25, 2007 • innovation • printer • printing • technology

Now Prints Can Have Unlimited Size [VIDEO]

Students of Georgia Institute of Technology has created a robot named PrintBot that can print out images of virtually unlimited sizes. On their site, Instructibles.com, they published a detailed step-by-step printer creation guide. The PrintBot uses a printhead from an Epson inkjet printer (as it was expected to use it, the printhead, not Epson) and… Continue reading Now Prints Can Have Unlimited Size [VIDEO]

November 26, 2007 • electronics • innovation • printing • technology

New Technology Promises Cheaper Microchips and Larger Displays

California-based company has developed a technology that may enable cheap electronic microchips and large displays. As time passed, inkjet printing technology finds application in areas having little or nothing to do with producing texts, graphics or photos. Inkjet printers have been successfully adopted into bioengineering (for printing tissues of human body) and electronics (for printing… Continue reading New Technology Promises Cheaper Microchips and Larger Displays

November 15, 2007 • HP • innovation • printing • technology • toner

Printing Industry Overview

HP claimed it’s giving up its camera manufacturing business. Instead the company plans to focus more resources on Print 2.0 – the new web-centered printing concept. However, the company is going to maintain the brand and now is looking for an OEM partner that will design, build and distribute digital cameras under HP label. HP… Continue reading Printing Industry Overview

November 8, 2007 • innovation • printing • research • technology

The Idea of Printed Organs is Coming True

The idea of creating artificial body organs is not new. It has been vastly developed in sci-fi literature, where the very process of creation was surrendered to the imagination of the author. Few people know that scientists have long been into this area and have reached some positive results. Science Daily reports that Gabor Forgacs,… Continue reading The Idea of Printed Organs is Coming True

October 1, 2007 • inks • innovation • research • technology

A Substitute For Printing Ink is Found

American scientists please us with another achievement in printing technology. They found a new method printing finely-detailed microscopic images with an enzyme instead of ink. The new method known as microcontact printing and reported to have a wide application for rapidly transferring high-resolution images onto large surfaces. However, current nanoscale printing technology depends on the… Continue reading A Substitute For Printing Ink is Found

September 24, 2007 • innovation • laser • printer • technology • Xerox

Never-seen-before Feature of Xerox Printer

Modern printers are much smarter than the original printing devices they were like, say, 10 years ago. Aside from just printing, they can scan, copy, send faxes, automatically connect to the Web for software updates, and so on. The only thing printer couldn’t do was translation. Not until now. Fuji Xerox Corporation developed a technology… Continue reading Never-seen-before Feature of Xerox Printer