PC Magazine Printer roundup

[Bob Headrick]

This year's PC Magazine printer roundup is now out and there are some
interesting articles - see the following:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2123876,00.asp

I am particularly interested in the Memjet technology. They say they will
have page wide array printers that can print 60 pages per minute at a price
of $200-300 by 2008. While I am rather skeptical it does look like an
interesting technology if they can actually deliver what they claim. See:
http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-4350-39-199-113065-554587-0-0-0-1 and
http://www.memjet.com/pages.aspx?id=technology. It will be interesting to
see how they handle the servicing issue. Keeping 70K tiny nozzles clear
will be a challenge, especially with the fast drying (1 second) ink they
claim.

Regards,
Bob Headrick, MS MVP Printing/Imaging

 

[measekite]

And PC Mag has been known to recommend only OEM inks with the printers
they recommend. All of the reviews describe print quality using only
OEM ink.

 

[Jerry1111]

I am particularly interested in the Memjet technology. They say they
will have page wide array printers that can print 60 pages per minute at
a price of $200-300 by 2008. While I am rather skeptical it does look
like an interesting technology if they can actually deliver what they
claim. See:

Like good old 'line printers' (ASCII printer which were printing one row
at a time - don't know the 'proper' english name for it). With amazing
speeds 50 rows/second. Looks similar to this article - the only
difference is graphics-ascii charts.
Anyone remembers printing 'semi-naked' girls on 3m of 15" paper with
ascii characters?

History's coming back ;-)

 

[John E.]

Like good old 'line printers' (ASCII printer which were printing one row

at a time - don't know the 'proper' english name for it).

"Line printer" is correct. See photo of a CDC model here:

<http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/vs-cdc-512-line-printer.jpg>

 

[Taliesyn]

"Line printer" is correct. See photo of a CDC model here:

Once the print head starts to go on an inkjet it sort of becomes a
"line" printer too ;-) . . .

-Taliesyn

 

[Frank]

Once the print head starts to go on an inkjet it sort of becomes a
"line" printer too ;-) . . .

-Taliesyn

Good one!
Frank

 

[Jerry1111]

John E. wrote:

Even if it's gonna be possible - what about drying?
I just remembered one of the first A3 printers from HP (no idea what was
the number... it was >10 years ago).
Anyway, paper after printing was 'dried' on a 'grill' made from
resistive wires. When you switched the lights off, there was a dark
yellow light coming out from the printer. Should be good for BBQ ;-)

heh, oldtimers ;-)