Is this art or a prototype? I just see it on my desk tipping over. :-)
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#22At first I thought, and don't see why this couldn't be, a scanner that eats through documents and saves a digital copy of them. This form factor would make digitizing large sets of printed records much more appealing.
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#23Another cool printer:
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#24The sooner the printer dies, the better.
Every company or process that makes me print something in 2013 makes me barf. Ever heard of web forms? Docusign? Email?
So, as beautiful as this is, it's solving a problem for 1960-1995.
Now, all I want to see in the printer innovation is some way to kill it off faster.
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#25It seems as though a more practical (though perhaps more dust-prone, when empty) design would do this partially upside-down. Rather than allowing the printer to move downward though the paper, why not load the paper from the top?
One could set a full stack atop something similar to his current design using the rollers, and the finished pages could exit through the front in order to prevent them from building up below. The final roller could simply be removed and a slit added to the front such that the finished paper could exit the printer cleanly. A solid plastic sheet could then be added to catch the printed paper which folds back atop the body of the printer when it is being transported or simply not in use, perhaps to prevent the aforementioned build-up of dust.
This accomplishes Yamamoto's goal of removing the paper tray and simplifying as well as shrinking the design while avoiding the dangerous consequences of brushing past the printer while it is atop a high stack of paper.
Of course, none of this addresses a central flaw with his design. Even if two models are produced for Letter and A4 paper, there are still many other sizes in use, and there appears to be no easy way to adjust the sizes of the intake and output areas without the dreaded paper tray.
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#26That's a very cool project. But I wonder how it gets over the initial friction of lifting and pulling the paper through as it goes lower on the stack. Surely there's a limit after which, you'd need to remove the completed sheets off the top?
Maybe the way they are looking at it is like this:
Top Paper
1 ---------
Gap Tray
2 ---------
Bottom Paper
Pages would probably be upside down of their original unless they were fed back and forth.
All the paper would need lifted up, so there would be a limit, unless... a different idea would be the same thing along a horizontal track of papers.
I'm still liking the idea of a scanner shredder. http://designforpeople.ca/?p=215
To extend this stack design make it like an inverted shredder with a 5" shop vac hose connected to the top :P
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#27Seems like it would be easy to make a model that still houses the paper to prevent tipping and would still allow for infrequent loading.
Even better, maybe turn it on its side and have it move horizontally?
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#28That's a very cool project. But I wonder how it gets over the initial friction of lifting and pulling the paper through as it goes lower on the stack. Surely there's a limit after which, you'd need to remove the completed sheets off the top?
Maybe the way they are looking at it is like this: Top Paper 1 --------- Gap Tray 2 --------- Bottom Paper Paper would be collected from bottom using standard scanner/paper style paper grabbing, scanned or printed to and placed in Gap Tray. Gap tray and entire top paper stack need lifted and placed back on support layer 1. Pages would probably be upside down of their original unless they were fed back and forth. All…
Clever! A scanner that digitizes text as it destroys it can see some good use in a disposal/archival location.
The Gap Tray itself would still need to rest on something while it grabs the bottom sheet. There may be slightly less effort if it grabs the sheets from the side rather than from top/bottom. This way, has a shorter distance it has to pull through, but the friction may still be significant.
All this talk has really whet my appetite, though. Now I really want to see it come to life.
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#29The sooner the printer dies, the better. Every company or process that makes me print something in 2013 makes me barf. Ever heard of web forms? Docusign? Email? So, as beautiful as this is, it's solving a problem for 1960-1995. Now, all I want to see in the printer innovation is some way to kill it off faster.
Amen.
What better way to say "fuck you, your time is worthless" than to ask someone to print / scan / fax something.
OP has cool printer design though :)
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#30The sooner the printer dies, the better. Every company or process that makes me print something in 2013 makes me barf. Ever heard of web forms? Docusign? Email? So, as beautiful as this is, it's solving a problem for 1960-1995. Now, all I want to see in the printer innovation is some way to kill it off faster.
I still have paper copies of important documents from the 1980s. I have no idea where the digital copies from that era disappeared to.
Paper has its place; it's a fantastic archival medium.
I also still print out contracts to review them. They're easier to mark up that way, and I can focus entirely on the paper -- including quickly leafing through it, while comparing multiple pages -- in a way that I can't as easily do on the desktop.
Paper isn't dead yet; it still has the best UX available for many common use cases.