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Amazing inkjet printer prints one page per second for under $300
Memjet Printhead One may have thought that an inkjet printer would never have achieved speeds up to 60 pages per minute(ppm), but Silverbrook Research has done just that; turn this printer to draft mode and you’ll be spitting out full color 8 1/2″ x 11″ sheets in just 2/3 of a second. Give it a pricetag under $300 and you’re sure to make a name for yourself.Until now, you’ve probably never heard of Silverbrook Research; they’ve been in the dark for the last 13 years quietly applying for over 3,400 patents for what will soon become the worlds quickest/cheapest inkjet printer.Using Silverbrook Research’s Memjet color printing technology, printers will break the industry standard inkjet speed several times over, and all for a fraction of the price of a high-speed laser printer.“Memjet’s technology delivers on the promise of inkjet for the broader market, with very fast speeds, high-quality color, and significantly lower purchase and operating costs,” said Robert Palmer, director of printer research at InfoTrends, Inc., a market analyst firm in Weymouth, MA.Palmer added that this is clearly a technology to watch, as Memjet is in a quite favorable position to expand their marketing opportunities.A printer with Memjet technology can print full-color, photo-quality images at 30ppm, standard color at 60ppm, and will draft at an incredible 90ppm.Memjet uses a customized driver chip that calculates and controls 900 million dots per second with a resolution of 1600×1600 dots per inch, the industries smallest drop size.The majority of the speed achieved is due to the unique size of the printhead. Currently, printheads are moved back and forth to accomplish printing; Memjet makes use of a printhead that contains over 70,000 nozzles equaling the size of the paper itself.“Conventional wisdom is that you cannot have high speed, quality color, and low cost all at once,” said Bill McGlynn, CEO of Memjet’s home and office business. “This technology turns that notion on its head, making page-wide color printing practical and cost-effective. We believe this breakthrough technology will change the printing industry by eliminating the cost and performance barriers of color, and by allowing both incumbents and non-imcumbents to compete on a new playing field.”A typical business-class, 60ppm Memjet-based printer is expected to retail for under $300; however, given this amazing technology, we’re sure you won’t find it for under $299.Videos of this impressive technology can be found at http://www.memjet.com/media.aspx#.
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