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Re: Stack

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Post by brador »

eksith wrote: post #28
bryogenic wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Clever until the scanner part breaks but the shredder keeps shredding.

Re: Stack

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Post by BrandonY »

bryogenic wrote: post #26
eksith wrote: post #2

That'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…

Wait...what happens if there's a paper jam halfway through scanshredding?

Re: Stack

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Post by vl »

bryogenic wrote: post #26
eksith wrote: post #2

That'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…

The more interesting question is how is it going to grab last pages from the table. "My printer was out of paper and dropped from the table again!"

Re: Stack

#45

Post by eridius »

That looks really cool. But what happens if the user bumps the printer? The entire stack of paper falls over, and the printer falls to the floor.

Re: Stack

#46

Post by StavrosK »

eridius wrote: post #45

That looks really cool. But what happens if the user bumps the printer? The entire stack of paper falls over, and the printer falls to the floor.

What happens when you bump the stack of 20,000 sheets of paper in your printer's tray currently?

Re: Stack

#47

Post by StavrosK »

peafruit wrote: post #30
johnvschmitt wrote: post #24

The 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…

I have no idea where any of my important paper documents are from the 1990s. All my digital documents, though, are in my "Archives" folder.

This says more about which medium you and I pay most attention to, rather than how well paper archives.

Re: Stack

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Post by Too »

el_benhameen wrote: post #33
spyder wrote: post #23

Another cool printer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baqDk1G9zUE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPhLFxRgfQ8

This is definitely cool, but it strikes me as a solution looking for a problem. Mobile printers that print out a sheet much faster than this are available at pretty low cost. I'm genuinely curious to hear why someone would buy this--any thoughts?

Spiral bound notebooks(as in the video), cardboard boxes, walls and other odd shaped surfaces don't fit into printers.
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