Details are frustratingly absent, but Dell just came clean on that portable Zink printer of theirs,
the Wasabi, that we saw run by the FCC in September. Luckily, all these Zink printers are pretty much the same -- meaning specialized 2 x 3-inch paper for ink-free printing, and a pretty stonking tiny form factor. Like most of the rest of the products introduced at
Dell's ridiculously uninformative press event today, there's no word on price or release date.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
STINK @ Jan 9th 2009 12:22PM
When you have Ben Stein presenting, details are unnecessary.
rawag77 @ Jan 9th 2009 12:57PM
I thought it was R. Lee Ermey.
STINK @ Jan 9th 2009 1:04PM
"Today, you people are no longer maggots! Today, you are DELL CONSUMERS. You're part of a brotherhood. From now on until the day you die, wherever you are, every DELL CONSUMER is your brother. Most of you will go to Customer Support. Some of you will not come back. But always remember this: our products die. That's what were here for. But DELL lives forever. And that means YOU live forever!!"
Eric @ Jan 9th 2009 1:40PM
Looks like Captain Ben Maxwell of the USS Phoenix
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Benjamin_Maxwell
superhobo @ Jan 9th 2009 12:24PM
Must be real expensive paper, then.
Little a @ Jan 9th 2009 12:25PM
Ink-Free ?
Kossdust @ Jan 9th 2009 12:45PM
Use thermal paper like almost all receipt printers now a days. Basically you get the paper hot and it turns black.
brian @ Jan 9th 2009 12:57PM
think thermal reactive paper like most modern receipt printers. it is probably something similar, not sure though as I haven't really read anything about these yet.
Boarderwoot @ Jan 9th 2009 12:50PM
once it goes black it never goes back.
Boarderwoot @ Jan 9th 2009 12:26PM
Was up b?
Wasabi?
Wasssaaaaahhhhhbiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jonathan-DBOSS @ Jan 9th 2009 1:00PM
At first glance, I could've sworn the hand in the screen was his.
Bad Beaver @ Jan 9th 2009 1:56PM
Polaroid can call back once ZINK produces "prints" that look like, well, Polaroids in both size and quality. Before that it is just disposable junk.
Papa @ Jan 9th 2009 2:23PM
The printer sounds fine, but does the paper go all psychedelic on ya when you leave it in the car during a Hot summer day.
ZNV @ Jan 9th 2009 2:50PM
Dell printers?
Xerox is doing netbooks.
Scott @ Jan 9th 2009 9:23PM
This sounds a lot like what Polaroid just put into a digital camera to resurrect the "instant print" cameras. Same print size, same thermal tech, but apparently in color.
QuarterSwede @ Jan 10th 2009 1:24AM
This will flop. Polaroid's own Zink printer doesn't sell as it is. The camera they have with this built in may however.