If you're like us, the few times a year that you do have to print things out often involve stressful moments -- like when you're running late for your flight and the 30 seconds that it takes to print out your boarding pass feel like a lifetime. We're here to tell you that new printer technology is on the way that may make those harrowing 30 seconds as obsolete as that ImageWriter II that you had back in 1987, if a new technology makes it out of the lab and onto store shelves. Two Israeli researchers at The College of Judea and Samaria have come up with a new type of
inkjet printer dubbed the JeTrix, which they hope will be to the inkjet printer what the ink-jet was to dot-matrix devices. Moshe Einat, one of the engineers involved, described his invention as being "like an 'ink-emitting screen,'" in the sense that ink would flow point by point -- and all at once -- instead of waiting for the cartridge to fully scan line by line -- theoretically reaching a
speed of 1,000 pages in a single minute. Einat says that the printer should begin commercial production within two years, but don't expect them to come as freebies with your PC purchase anytime soon.
posted Sep 22nd 2006 5:55AM
That would be the best invention ever for people who would have to do last-minute scripture printing :-)
nice! I want!
This might work for B&W printing but I fail to see how this will work with color printing
For color, you'd just have at least 4 sequential stages: cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Like any pipeline, you'd still get your 1000ppm, but you'd have an initial (really short) delay before the first sheet emerged.
David
16 pages a second? you can kill someone if it flies out that fast
Well I can certainly say that a 1,000PPM printer would save us allot of time here. We oftenly get documents ranging as high as 20,000 pages and let's just say they take a while to reproduce..
While it could proberly get the ink onto 16 pages per second finding a mechanism that can feed 16 pages per second into the printer will be difficult.
According to my calculations:
1000ppm ~= 16.67 ppsec
Assuming 8.5"x11" paper ~= 0.00013415404 miles x 0.000173611111 miles
Assuming printed paper shoots out the longer dimension of 11"
That makes a total 11" * 1000 pgs per minute * 60 minutes/hour = 660,000 inches/hour ~= 10.4166667 miles a hour.
Thus, each paper shoots out of the printer at 10.42 mph.
Given each paper weights about 4 grams, each hour, the printer will output 240kg of paper
~= 529lbs/hr.
Reminds me of the old chain drive line printers
(Anybody else have a full size picture of Mr. Spock
done up in overprinted text that leaves today's
ASCII art in the dust!)
Paper literally flew off the machines -- a site to
behold. One of ours had an alarm go off before it
started printing so you could steer clear of the
output ;-)
I wanna see that in a photo quality setting, using a 6-color setting
Maybe 1000 pages a second ain't so good... I'm sure everyone has accidentally had a hundred-plus page pdf file and only meant to print one page but started printing the whole damn thing. Slow print gives me a chnace to cancel before I print out all the pages. With superfast printing I guess I'm SOL.
Yeah Pat, I was thinking the same thing. When you had a jam, there was a big ball of paper, not just one sheet sticking out of a roller somewhere. And lineprinters had those sound enclosures, because when you lifted the lid, it sounded like machine gun fire, woke everyone up in the office. This would be a lot quieter, but the paper feed mechanism is not trivial.
I'm sorry to disappoint you but according to IVC's database, JetRix was actually created by Moshe Einat ... but back in 2002. The company was under development and ceased to exist in 2004. Moshe Einat is still a Professor @The College of Judea and Samaria though.
Juan Peres
Editor
www.HighTech-MAG.com
Israel Business & Technology News
After contacting Prof Moshe Einat,
we confirm that Project Jetrix is Live and Kicking!
Forget about my last post, please accept my apologies ;-)
They even have raised recently 140k$. We'll keep you updated shortly in our columns.
Juan Peres
Editor
www.HighTech-MAG.com
Israel Business & Technology News
Wow this is acutally quite incredible. However, having worked in an office building, I was shocked by the amount of paper waste. This just makes it faster process for people to waste the paper that takes days to process and manufacture. Many offices use personalized paper which is simply sheet after sheet of letter-sized paper with the employee's name and other credentials in the header. More often then not, I see boxes of these get thrown out simply becaue many employees can find no use for it other then scrap.
In my honest opinion, an efficient design would be one that makes you appreciate the final print by having you wait it out a little, thus being slower. Because that way there aren't people printing useless scrap copies of the same material over and over again simply because they can take the printing speed for granted. Furthermore, this method ensures that people spend more time proofing and concentrating on their work rather then standing at the printer more then once to print the same sheet albeit a few typos.
But thats just my 0.02 CAN cents. :)
Add this to the long list of innovations that comes out of Israel (a list that includes products from Motorola, Intel, Microsoft, etc.).
Hmm? Those middle easterners are sure clever. Wait! I mean, Israelis; I never hear of anyone else in that region creating interesting technologies.
INTERESTING TECHNOLOGIES?!!?
How about half the calculations u still use in modern physics and advanced mathematics?! Yes, I know it doesnt apply as a technology, but it sure as hell is an advancement and im sure a number of its methods were used in the development of this very product. And belive you me, I'm taking advanced Calculus & Mathematical history as a two part course, and more than half of the elementary mathematical methods were first developed in this region! And if you don't believe it, then look at such structures as the pyramids as a statement to the fact that at least during one time in history, they weer eons ahead of the western world.
Just because u have not heard of technology or advancements coming out of the region does not falsify the fact, it simply makes u look ignorant.
jmchez, you are a predictable American. Or a fool. Forgive me, but...
Richard, I'm assuming you watch a lot of BBC..?
Anyway, I'm sure you'll all appreciate this technology when you start a POD service in your bedrooms!
Oh, and Nami, I don't think he was born back when that was new technology, sorry...
And don't let the fact that Israel represents about 6% of the population in the middle east (or less, frankly I'm not sure what with the rest of the middle east keeping such good track of its population) play any role in the relevance of his statement...
See other Israeli innovations...
http://www.NewsoftheDay.com
As promised we realised an interview of Prof. Moshe Einat, creator of the 1000pages-a-minute JetRix printer. The interview is here:
http://www.hightech-mag.com/index.php/vip/2006/09/eye-on-israeli-jetrix-1000-pages-a-minute-printer-technology/
Juan Peres
Editor
www.HighTech-MAG.com
Israel Business & Technology News