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
The Xerox’s research lab demonstrated reusable paper. No, no, not recyclable which is any paper, but reusable. Information printed on it disappears in 24 hours. The developers claim a sheet of such paper can be use up to 100 times without compromising quality, of print presumably. From the outside, the paper looks like an A4… Continue reading Xerox Invents Reusable Paper
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
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
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
At an event on March 10, 2008 in Tel Aviv, Hewlett-Packard offered a peek into future printing technologies, introducing a new inkjet printer that prints thousands of pages per minute and ink that retains its shine even when exposed to extreme elements. HP’s water-based Latex Ink is specially formulated to embed in a surface and… Continue reading HP’s Future Printing Technologies