Dell launches inkless printer
DELL IS FLOGGING a range of inkless printers aimed at the mobile user. The Wasabi PZ310 Photo Printer, from third-party supplier Zink Imaging, uses paper embedded with coloured crystals.
The colours are activated by heating tiny thermal probes on the paper to create images.
The 4.8in x 2.8in x 0.9in printer weighs just seven ounces and can print via Bluetooth from laptops and mobile phones.
It can print images up to 2in x 3in, and the paper comes with an adhesive backing so that the images can be used to create stickers and point-of-sale material.
"The Dell Wasabi is the fourth product available using the Zink technology, with many more on the way, including those capable of making larger prints," said Wendy Caswell, president of Zink Imaging. µ
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i wonder what HP (makers of expensive ink) have to say about this, if it wasnt dell i suppose they would have just bought um and buried um lol, very interesting, time for the brown ink to hit the fan and sink those rip off franchise cartridge re-fill merchants ??????
Well, the expensive ink has simply mutated to "expensive paper".
The way to check if paper is normal thermal transfer paper is rub it with your fingernail and the friction heats and colours the paper. It's fine for pure black and white labels and barcoding, but I wouldn't try and use a full colour photo.
Unless this paper requires a lot more heat than standard thermal paper, it's not going to be used for printing out holiday snaps.
Did you look at the PR shot, or go the web link or look at the demos or read about the 100+ patents they have which show that it IS going to be used for holidays snaps and NO it isn't standard thermal paper.
/Sheesh
FUJIFILM has been using Thermal Autochrome paper for quite some time for photo printing, and the quality is a lot better than the Dye-sublimation printers out there.
A different temperature for each primary colour...
Zink a different type of paper tho, but it looks like the quality is very very good.
So basically this is a Polaroid Pogo? We have one. It's not intended to be a replacement for a traditional printer but it's cute, spits out pretty good pictures from a mobile, and is more than adequate for making small photo albums or scrap books. Paper's quite expensive though, about £18 for 70 sheets from Amazon.
What is an ounce?
1 ounce = 28.3495231 grams
Google ftw.