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Re: HP SitePrint

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Post by p0w3n3d »

tacticalturtle wrote: post #17
tech4all wrote: post #2

Cool! From HP! The robot only costs $1,500 but a two pack of extra sharpies for it costs $48,000. Before you can use it, you must install 5 petabytes of HP drivers.

Most of the 5 petabytes is a model used to determine if your sharpies are counterfeit.

They remotely brick your Sharpies even if they are original because of a bug in the software

Re: HP SitePrint

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Post by tomovo »

tguvot wrote: post #18
tech4all wrote: post #2

Cool! From HP! The robot only costs $1,500 but a two pack of extra sharpies for it costs $48,000. Before you can use it, you must install 5 petabytes of HP drivers.

do you have sharpie that won't grind down to zero on concrete after 3ft ?

Not on genuine HP concrete.

Re: HP SitePrint

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Post by stronglikedan »

ianbicking wrote: post #6

I remembered hearing a podcast about a startup robotics company doing the same thing; a little search and they actually have a comparison page between their product and HP's: https://www.dustyrobotics.com/compare/fieldprinter-vs-sitepr...

So Dusty is for SMBs and SitePrint is for clueless Corporations, like Oracle.

Re: HP SitePrint

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Post by p0w3n3d »

pugworthy wrote: post #4

HP gets a lot of crap for home printer quality and ink DRM, but does still have some neat products like this. The industrial printers for example, especially the PageWide Web Press line are impressive. The T1100 is a huge beast. Then there are the life science products that can do precision dispensing of fluids for life sciences and drug discovery. Some of them also do individual single live cell dispensing.

TBH my LaserJet 451dn died recently and I bought brother colour 3270cdw. The quality of colours is awful, almost unbearable. I remember I could print a photo with HP but the Brother fails that task spectacularly for some reason - quickly colours go to overdrive and bleed

Re: HP SitePrint

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Post by teeray »

I can only see this getting used by very large scale contractors. Framers for your standard house are probably just going to keep using chalk lines (maybe a laser line too these days). "Precision up to +/- 1/32 inch" really isn't necessary in framing.

Re: HP SitePrint

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Post by jumpkick »

I wonder how it avoids pipes stubbed up through the slab, or electrical EMT, etc. or how it avoids mistakes made during the rough-in.

What if the plumber missed a drain or supply by an inch? Guessing the robot doesn't adjust its outline. I.e. if a sewer stub is wrong by a few inches, the wall needs to be moved to fit the toilet, or the slab needs to be busted up and the sewer line relocated.

I suppose if it gets some of this wrong, it'll be obvious, and a human can correct it.

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