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Re: Stack

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Post by detharonil »

solistice wrote: post #36
detharonil wrote: post #25

It 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…

Technically you only have to adjust the size of the inlet and handle the rest in software. Since the paper would be comming down vertically, you can do mechanical centering akin to that used in industrial processes.

I like the idea, but doing so still adds a great deal of complexity to a supposedly simple design and adds a large amount to the size of the printer if one accounts for the use of legal paper. While I wouldn't mind settling on a standard paper size, the design still leaves a great deal to be desired. It appears to be more of a gimmick than anything.

Re: Stack

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Post by sterling312 »

dictum wrote: post #63

Really interesting as an experiment in industrial design and a conversation piece. As a viable product, I have some doubt: anecdotally, when I see people printing documents, they're in something of a hurry, and keeping the pile of paper sheets aligned would be hard. If you slightly knock the printer while using it, the stack of paper may tilt to a side. And having to keep the papers aligned would become an annoyance…

Too bad it's a queue and not a stack. I'll show myself out now.

Re: Stack

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Post by Sirenos »

sterling312 wrote: post #82
dictum wrote: post #63

Really interesting as an experiment in industrial design and a conversation piece. As a viable product, I have some doubt: anecdotally, when I see people printing documents, they're in something of a hurry, and keeping the pile of paper sheets aligned would be hard. If you slightly knock the printer while using it, the stack of paper may tilt to a side. And having to keep the papers aligned would become an annoyance…

Too bad it's a queue and not a stack. I'll show myself out now.

How is it so? I mean the last paper placed (on top) is the first to be fed to the machine, right? Fits the definition of stack as far as I can see.

Re: Stack

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Post by adyus »

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.

Unfortunately, too much of human society is based on printed matter.

Take shipping a box, for example. You'd still need to print a label. There's currently no way that I know of to associate that particular box to the place it's supposed to go otherwise.

Disclaimer: I'm building http://ezsend.it to help people avoid the post office lines, and it would be a useless endeavor without printers :)

Re: Stack

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Post by kunil »

Sirenos wrote: post #83
sterling312 wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Too bad it's a queue and not a stack. I'll show myself out now.

How is it so? I mean the last paper placed (on top) is the first to be fed to the machine, right? Fits the definition of stack as far as I can see.

Well, I guess it depends on how you insert new pages. If you remove the machine, put new paper and put machine back then it is a stack. If you lift all papers along with the machine then it is a queue. I believe second method looks more convenient unless you have a 5 foot of paper

Re: Stack

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Post by sova »

can't believe no one has noticed that he made a real life turing machine (sorta)

Re: Stack

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Post by mjgoeke »

When I saw the first image I thought it was going to be a scanner (for digitizing the information in the stack, then recycling said stack), not a printer. That would have been more impressive to me.

Re: Stack

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Post by eru »

tdoggette wrote: post #39
prpetten wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This should be in MOMA.

MoMA's industrial design section is the only part that I remember years later. Gosh, what a cool place.

The Red Dot design museum in Essen, Germany, is also worth a visit, if you are ever in central Europe.

Re: Stack

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Post by joss82 »

arh68 wrote: post #68
dictum wrote: post #63

Really interesting as an experiment in industrial design and a conversation piece. As a viable product, I have some doubt: anecdotally, when I see people printing documents, they're in something of a hurry, and keeping the pile of paper sheets aligned would be hard. If you slightly knock the printer while using it, the stack of paper may tilt to a side. And having to keep the papers aligned would become an annoyance…

> If you extend the thought, it's as if the machine disappears Indeed it does. How long was it after we discovered DNA that we discovered its 'machine', DNA polymerase? And in the end, what's more interesting?

Just to further your comment, the ribosome is another interesting machine that reads DNA and spits out little pieces of you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribosome
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