|
From Crave RSS:
Zink wants to take the printer off of your desk and put it in your pocket. The question now is whether you'll want it.
The Waltham, Mass.-based start-up has created--with help from Polaroid--a way to print photographs or documents without ink or an ink cartridge. Without an ink cartridge, the printer can be reduced to the size of an iPod or smaller, CEO Wendy Caswell says. The controlling factor when it comes to printer size is whether you want 2 x 3 pictures or 4 x 6 prints.
The first two products will likely be a standalone printer and a camera with a built-in printer. The company is showing off the technology this week at the technology conference Demo '07 taking place this week in Palm Desert, California. (Sonny Bono and Gerald Ford territory.)
The trick is the paper. In conventional machines, print heads squirt ink in a meticulous pattern onto a sheet of paper, which gets affixed through heat or other means.
Read the whole article
| 
Re: A Printer without Ink from Zink
