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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?
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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?
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 don't really print much, but when I do, it's amazing that I can take something digital and put it on a piece of paper.
The reason that's awesome is that I can then hang it on my fridge. Or take it with me in my pocket, without having to worry about electricity. Or, you know, one of the other thousand use cases where a printed page is more usable, reliable, or feasible than something turing-equivalent.
At 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.
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.
Fuck that. I don't really print much, but when I do, it's amazing that I can take something digital and put it on a piece of paper. The reason that's awesome is that I can then hang it on my fridge. Or take it with me in my pocket, without having to worry about electricity. Or, you know, one of the other thousand use cases where a printed page is more usable, reliable, or feasible than something turing-equivalent.
Paper and printing should die and will die. One day. But that day is not today because none of the alternatives are ready. Recently I had to work on a project that had a 500-page spec. All my screen space was taken up by code, application and command windows (and I had a very large amount of screen space). I tried keeping the specs open on a separate screen. I tried loading it to a Kindle. Nothing was fast or convenient enough. In the end, printing and binding the spec and keeping it on my desk solved the problem (I know!). The time savings for me and my team was probably worth a hundred times more than what the printing cost.
Also, beautiful concept. It takes a great mind to even think of something like this.
At 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.
I scan all my receipts and incoming mail, I doubt you would even be able to make a stable "tower" of these things. It probably only works with new paper. One of my first thoughts was also that leaving the paper open in the free would result in a lot of dust collecting on it.
Another here's a CGed idea not even close to being implemented? (Which is fine except 99% of the time is because it's not possible/practical)
I know there's a claim there's a real version but not seeing pics of it? Or youtube?
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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…
Of course you have no idea where your digital documents from the 1980's are. In 30 years you'll still have your most important digital documents from today though.
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.
This link is obligatory when speaking of the evils of printers: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers
I think that a more disruptive invention might be a printer that accepts inexpensive ink in bulk, a printer without proprietary tiny little cartridges with electronics that lie about how much ink is left. I understand that we definitely need to print less, and stop using trees to print. Better quality paper can be made using flax fiber. I also think that having our own printing press is still a powerful means of spreading ideas.