Category: printing

November 16, 2007 • printing • technology

World’s Widest Printhead

Tonejet, a developer of digital printing process, has announced its revolutionary extra-wide printhead. The 172mm-wide head, claimed to be the world’s widest integral printhead has been developed in cooperation with a number of partners. The system is based on electrostatic drop-on-demand deposition technology that doesn’t have nozzles, but uses a very fine jet of concentrated… Continue reading World’s Widest Printhead

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 25, 2007 • HP • printing • security • technology

HP Technology Secures Printing

Once upon a time, printers were printing devices no different from a typewriter in terms of security. As years lapsed, time printers have become more sophisticated, network-enabled devices with hard drives and even operating systems. Pretty much like personal computer. And people keep on taking printers for what they actually are – devices that produce… Continue reading HP Technology Secures Printing

October 24, 2007 • Apple • Canon • HP • laser • printer • printing • technology • Xerox

How Laser Printers First Appeared and Developed

Today we take the laser printer as an integral part of everyday life in office environment. However 30 years ago when it first appeared, this piece of machinery was quite a curio. When a document is sent to the printer, a laser beam “draws” the document on a drum using electrical charges. After the drum… Continue reading How Laser Printers First Appeared and Developed

September 17, 2007 • HP • inkjet • innovation • printing • research • technology

HP Inkjet Technology Delivers Drugs

Here is another example of expanding application of inkjet technology. Last week Hewlett Packard announced that it had used its ink-jet printer cartridge technology to create a patch that releases drugs through the skin in a controlled and painless way. The company said it has entered into a licensing agreement with Crospon, an Irish medical… Continue reading HP Inkjet Technology Delivers Drugs

September 12, 2007 • innovation • printing • research • technology

IBM Introduces Nanosize Printing Technology

Researchers from IBM Corporation in collaboration with scientists from ETH Zurich Science and Technology Universityannounced the development of a new printing method that allows placing nanosize particles on a precise location. The technology makes it possible to manipulate particles smaller than 100 nanometers, which delivers resolution equivalent to 100,000 dots per inch. Compare that to… Continue reading IBM Introduces Nanosize Printing Technology

September 4, 2007 • inkjet • innovation • printing • technology

Scientists Find New Way To Use Inkjet Printer

As I previously reported, inkjet printers have gone way beyond simple printing your office documents. Japanese “always-searching-for-something-new” scientists found another way of using inkjet technology – for printing blood vessels. Researchers from the Tokyo Medical and Dental University succeeded in printing a blood vessel using a modified inkjet printer specially designed at the Kanagawa Academy… Continue reading Scientists Find New Way To Use Inkjet Printer

August 24, 2007 • printer • printing • technology • Zink

Zink Updates Info On Upcoming Products

In January, 2007 Zink Imaging announced it was developing a technology that would enable mobile printing with out a drop of ink. The core of the technology was paper with incorporated color crystals that would be activated by heat of printhead. The resulting device should be similar to Polaroid cameras, combining photo camera and printer in… Continue reading Zink Updates Info On Upcoming Products

August 22, 2007 • inkjet • innovation • printing • research • technology

How An Inkjet Can Be Used Beyond Document Printing

What do you think your inkjet printer can create? Pages of black text? OK. Documents with color graphics? All right. Photos of you having fun in backyard? Absolutely! Anything else? You surely feel puzzled, however an inkjet printer can do a lot more. And there are people who know what this ‘more’ is. A UK… Continue reading How An Inkjet Can Be Used Beyond Document Printing