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Re: Stack

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Post by philsnow »

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…

Reminds me of Vinge's "Rainbow's End", there was a device which shredded whole books, then sucked the confetti through a hose that had tiny cameras in the walls, and they stitched scans of the original books together in software.

Re: Stack

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Post by hrktb »

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 am slowly and slowly trying to go almost paperless, I hear you. And because We can now get rid of almost every boring administrative use of paper, the really intersting uses tend to stick out, and you start to print things you really wanted to.

Like printing papercraft parts, big photos of anything you like, personalized trump sets, kids stories you read at bedtime. Honestly there's a lot of uses I didn't care about until there was no need to print tax forms anymore.

Re: Stack

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Post by el_benhameen »

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?

Re: Stack

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Post by markkanof »

So based on this design concept I have to assume that they expect this printer to run on either batteries or wireless power of some sort. I don't mean to be too down on this as it is an interesting concept, but it annoys me when designers leave out things like power cords to make their mockup look cleaner than it actually is. It seems like a copout.

Re: Stack

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Post by davidw »

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.

This link is obligatory when speaking of the evils of printers: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers

Re: Stack

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Post by solistice »

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.

Re: Stack

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Post by solistice »

axelf1989 wrote: post #12

Would it require a perfectly stacked pile? It would seem annoying if you slightly bang in to the pile and have it be off balance.

Doesn't look like he accounted for paper that isn't stacked perfectly, but as in my comment above, it wouldn't be incredibly hard to incorporate that into the design.

Re: Stack

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Post by if_by_whisky »

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…

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.

Re: Stack

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Post by tdoggette »

prpetten wrote: post #20
dag11 wrote: post #4

This is beautiful. I love the idea of an inverted printer, where instead of paper moving through the printer, it's as if the printer is moving through the paper.

This should be in MOMA.

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