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Imagine a bookstore that prints your purchases while you settle the bill or a personalized newspaper that contains only the news you want to read. Such expedient printing may soon become a reality using a new Israeli technology that will enable printing 1,000 pages a minute at affordable prices.

Two researchers from The College of Judea and Samaria - Moshe and Nissim Einat - have developed a revolutionary printing technique called Jetrix, which enables simultaneous high- speed printing of an entire page of text. The technology combines printing and Liquid Crystal Technology (LCD) methods to make a page-sized printing array that emits ink instead of light.

Following on from our Story today about Epson’s new print head, these Israeli scientists have developed a technique which prints a whole page at once, and has a theoretical print speed of 1,000 pages per minute.

Early printers used a continuous jet of ink to print on pages but were later replaced by modern Drop On Demand (DOD) printers in which a traveling head of tiny nozzles squirts ink at the page. The dots combine to produce the desired print. Current printers use a single print head that scans across the page but mechanical and physical limitations present a range of barriers that cap print speeds.

Combining a multitude of ink nozzles together into larger print heads is complex and fraught with technical difficulties. Einat’s solution is a matrix of printer heads fed by multiple ink chambers. With a matrix as large as the page, each head is fired only once per page allowing a much longer relaxation time and negating the need for a scanning head.

So far Einat has made a matrix of 12 x 12 centimeters that demonstrated the theory is sound and that the capillary action is fast enough to keep the nozzles supplied with ink. Despite its size the prototype matrix contains 57,600 nozzles, so small that the delicate capillaries and nozzles were created with the same processes used to manufacture computer chips. The print head works only in black and white but Einat is confident that it can be adapted for color printing too.

HP, with their new ‘Edgeline’ technology which uses a row of print heads right across the page so that a whole line of text is printed at one time are now offering professional level inkjet printers which will compete with Laserjet printers for speed and quality of output.

We are living in interesting times with printing techology moving forward faster than ever

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Ricoh has launched its latest innovative printer technology in the UK with its range of GelSprinters. The launch has been long awaited as demand for the new printers had outstripped supply in Japan, which meant that the UK has had to wait for its supplies.

The revolutionary new range of desktop printers print with gel, rather than the liquid pigment or dye-based inks used by inkjets. Traditional inkjet printers print by spraying drops of ink through a series of nozzles onto the page. The method is simple and effective but can be slow and doesn’t dry instantly making it all too easy to smudge the print. The GelSprinter process replaces ink with a pigment-based gel. Due to the gel being of a similar level of viscosity to wine, it sits on the surface of the paper instead of sinking into the fibres. This produces an ultra quick drying, sunlight resistant and waterproof finish that apparently does not smudge, blur or bleed. The company state that the technology has “the speed of a laser, but the purchase cost is closer to an inkjet”.

The new Ricoh Aficio GX3000, GX3050N and GX5050N models are the first GelSprinters to be launched in the UK and are said to be capable of a very fast print rate of up to 29 pages per minute in both colour and black and white. Another benefit of the models is the availability of fast automatic duplex printing as standard. With the duplex feature enabled, the paper is instantly drawn back into the printer in order to print on the second side. In comparison, inkjets that duplex print, have to wait for the first side to dry before printing the second and so can be much slower.

Prices for the GelSprinter Aficio range between £128 for the GX3000, £178 for the GX3050N (with full network facilities) and £249 for the GX5050N, which make them an affordable printer for the home, small office or SME.

We are currently trying to get hold of one to try out in our office, and will let you know what sort of results we get from them.

The gel cartridges for these new models are already available here at Stinky Ink at fantastic prices.

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A printer used to do just what it said on the tin – print. In the early days printers used black ink only and printed on just one side of A4. Remember the dot matrix printers which were popular around the 1980’s? Colour came later and became very popular with ink-jet technology and is now also becoming more common in laser and multi-function machines.

In this digital age technology has changed so much that printers can now act as fax machines, copiers, scanners and can even print your holiday snaps. The multi-function machines are so useful, enabling you to throw out the old cumbersome machines for a smart compact all-in-one system.
There are also the new small photo printers, which are designed exclusively to print your photographs onto nice glossy photo paper. These often come with connections for your digital camera and have slots for memory cards and built-in software so you don’t even need the computer in order to print. These photo printers are so easy to use even for the technologically challenged! You can just plug your camera into the printer and instantly make prints.

The corporate market has also taken off with the large networked printers designed for multiple users now a part of the furniture in most offices. This technology has also found it into the home with home networks becoming increasingly available, even with wireless networking built in.
The cost of printers is declining and it is common place now to find a printer in any ordinary home, being used for a multitude of purposes by various members of the family. The technology is now very easy and inexpensive to obtain.

So what is the future for printers? The paperless office idea was just never going to catch on was it? However, there are reports of erasable printer paper coming into production with self erasing print that disappears within 16 hours! I can just see piles of work sitting on the office desk with the text slowly fading away. Imagine the consequences of not meeting your deadline only to find your work has disappeared! With increased usage of printers in every day life at work and at home the future of the printer is secure, but where will technology take us next?

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What a fantastic MFP printer.

HP Photosmart C3180 Ink

We offer the following cartridges for this printer:

• HP No. 338 Black Inkjet Print Cartridge
• HP No 336 Black ink cartridge
• HP 338 Black Inkjet Print Cartridges Multipack
• HP No. 343 C8766EE Tri Colour ink Cartridge
• HP 343 Tri-colour Inkjet Print Cartridges Twin Pack
• HP No 342 Tri-Colour ink cartridge
• HP No. 348 Photo Inkjet Print Cartridge

Offering 1,200×2,400dpi scanning resolution and 4,800×1,200dpi print resolution it’s a steal at less that £60 (if you shop around).

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Epson - Stylus D88 Plus review

The Epson Stylus D88 and the slightly cheaper Epson Stylus D78 are Epson’s latest, four-colour, inkjet printers aimed at the home user, and are great for both domestic and home business usage.

The Epson Stylus D88 is quite a compact ink jet printer in silver and black. It has the a traditional Epson upright paper feeder at the back, and is fairly light at 4.2kg. On the top of the printer you basically get basic control buttons and the on/off control. Although the machine is in the budget range it is a unfortunate that it does not come equipped with USB 2.0.

The print quality, however, is very good, you get the same optimised dpi rate (5,760 x 1,440) as the higher spec more expensive models in the Epson printer range such as the Epson Stylus DX6000. Print speeds are impressive too with optimum black text at 23ppm, colour text at 14ppm and 10 x 15cm (6 x 4-inch) photos averaging 92 seconds. You can add an extra paper feeder but you can load upto 100-pages which should be more than sufficient for most home requirements.

One excellent aspect is that like most Epson inkjet printers the D88 Plus has four separate colour ink cartridges which means you only have to change the particular colour that has run out thus keeping running costs down. This is where Stnkyink can help, we not only stock the original Epson Durabrite ink cartridges for the Epson D88 but also high quality compatible ink cartridges which can give you significant savings over buying original cartridges.

We think that the Epson D88 inkjet printer is a fantastic basic printer for home users on a limited budget which delivers superior quality photo reproductions at a reasonable speed, and coupled together with our high quality compatible, fully guaranteed ink cartridges it is a winning combination for home users.

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