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This looks like a fantastic development. My only question would be is the cost real, or is the printer a loss leader to make big bucks on ink cartridges.

If they could sell these units at this price without raping the customer on the cost of consumables locked to their hardware, then they have something.

Otherwise they"re just selling the same thing with faster specs.

Einstein said, "There is too much education altogether and it tends to get in the way"

Question is how long the ink cartridge would last..!

Just Think...
The small array of nozzles in our current inkjet printers multiplied by ???, and to think how many can get clogged up. Phew, what a mess. Hope they have some sort of purging system to clear out all of those minute orafices. Maybe pressurized nitrogen or just air would do it. Can anybody else speculate?

At manufactures and service centres for inkjet based printing products, they use a fluid that's basically like a solvent that dissoves the ink - whether it's liquid or dried up. of course, it would need to be under pressure to break through a blockage that's completely sealed...

so i'm not sure if they would go that way.

of course in consumables then you'd need the CMYK inks, + Cleaner agent...


would air really clean a blockage or just make it 'drier' (worse)?

About the nozzels really it shouldn't be too difficult to purge nozzels it takes less psi to purge out a smaller hole and if there going to release the first one at such low cost chances are that lower cost will follow fella

Anyhow any way you look at it this product will be revolutionary for the markets that it targets I am sure other companies will be following suit shortly after giving the consumer a better bang for there buck.

Now if blank paper could be developed and blank lables could be developed cheaper as well as inks "Ink problems are semi solved by refill kits and addon CIS systems"

I just wonder if the ink will be standard ink or non standard ink if non standard ink that is where they will make there cash.

Unless they've made some significant improvements to this, I wouldn't get too excited. This guy already tried to pitch this to Hewlett Packard about a year ago. Using a decent quality ink, the printheads fell apart in under five minutes of use.

HP uses several things to unclog printheads.

One (as stated above) is a solvent. (The solvent is on a pad that the printheads pass over in the service station)
The other is a pressure system.
Inside the printheads of the larger format HP printers there is an airsack. This airsack is linked to a 'pump' on the outside that the carriage activates when it enters the service station.
No actual air is forced through the printheads (this would destroy them), but it forces a fairly large amount of ink through.

I would have to say that it would be almost impossible to keep the printheads clean on something like this.
The entire reason current-gen inkjet printers use a moving carriage is so the heads can be cleaned. Unless they've come up with a system to move the whole page-width carriage into a capping service station somehow, this is completely worthless.

it will end up just like other development achieved by noname companies. some bigfish like HP will buy the whole thing to ensure that folks keep on buying his product which he produces from 5 bucks with chinamen all sell it for 200. what do you think why cant we find a mobile with good camera videoplayer mp3player high resolution panel etc.? because he wants to sell his earlier products too which's development costed a fortune.
so technology is one thing and business is another