Read the Fine and Fast Print

CIO, August, 2005 by Christopher Lindquist

With the price of color laser models dropping below $200, ink-jets being given away free as come-ons for computer stores and even cheap units able to deliver decent photo-quality prints, it's hard to find anything worth printing about printers anymore. But a recent demonstration by Brother Industries and separate news from MIT and Hewlett-Packard recently made printers exciting again.

This June at the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi, Japan, Brother engineers demonstrated a prototype ink-jet printer that can reportedly spit out paper in a 170-page-per-minute blur. The key is a static head that prints across an entire sheet at once instead of the more typical moving head, which slides across a page for each thin line of print. By linking multiple heads, the technology could in...

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