On Tuesday, at a press conference the president of HP, Mark Hurd shed light on the prospects of using webOS the mobile operating system, the main asset of the Palm Company recently purchased for 1.2 billion dollars. According to the head of HP, webOS will find its use in several products, including tablet computers and… Continue reading HP To Power Printers With webOS Operational System
Previously, different materials were used for printing on 3D-printer: glass, organics, synthetic fibers, and more. Now students from McGill University in Canada have been able to apply the most common liquid on Earth: water. They modified a relatively old Fab@Home Model 1, having replaced the extruder with liquid feed system. To prove the efficiency of… Continue reading Three-dimensional Printer Creates Ice Sculptures
PrePeat is a rewritable printer that requires neither ink, nor toner to print. This device can print and erase images and text using a specific thermal process combines with special plastic paper. So, one sheet of papers can be used several times to print inrofmation on it, just like a rewritable CD or DVD. However,… Continue reading PrePeat, the Inkless and Tonerless Printer
The technology is the same as that of the simple inkjet printer found in homes and offices, but Japanese scientist Makoto Nakamura is on a mission to see if it can also produce human organs. The idea is that the printer jets out thousands of cells per second instead of ink droplets, and builds them… Continue reading Inkjet Fulled With Cells Can Produce Hearts
Xerox has demonstrated to their visitors at GITEX Technology Week 2008 how they can recreate an effective ‘green’ experience in the workplace with the latest in environmentally friendly product innovations including their exclusive cartridge free solid ink technology. All printed material at the show including all media press packs & other marketing collateral was printed… Continue reading The Green Ways Of Xerox
Home Dialysis Plus is now licensed to use HP’s inkjet technology to mix water and concentrated dialysate, a mixture of chemicals used to extract toxins and supply electrolytes to the bloodstream. The water and dialysate will be mixed in real-time, then pumped into the dialyser. According to an HP statement, mixing the solution in real-time… Continue reading HP Inkjet Technology Delivers Dialysis
This post has little to do with printers, but rather with printing technology. Below there’s a video of a waterfall that is controlled by a computer to “printing out” astonishing patterns and pictures. This waterfall is located in Canal City Hakata, a shopping and entertainment complex in Fukuoka, Japan. As you can see from the… Continue reading Computer Controlled Inkjet-Like Waterfall
A lab-on-a-chip device can now be made at home on a piece of paper. All it takes is the right paper, ink, and sunlight to create a microfluidic device that can not only test water quality but also identify deceases. George Whitesides and his colleagues at Harvard developed this new method to help developing countries… Continue reading Paper, Ink and Sunlight Make a Lab-on-a-Chip
Do you know that toner powder used in toner cartridges is made of oil and the actual volume required to produce 1 pound of toner is 2 liters? Now you do. Currently America consumes over 100 million cartridges per year. That equates to 100 million pounds or 50,000 tons of oil. In an effort to… Continue reading Green Bean Toner
Nowadays, large offset presses, costing several million dollars apiece, dominate printing business that is estimated for $418 billion a year. Most of the offset presses sold in the world are produced by Xerox. This state of affairs is likely to change with the introduction of the new inkjet technologies. And the success of new technologies… Continue reading New Technologies Will Help Inkjet Printers Supplant Offset Presses