The fastest inkjet and laser printers we see today have a printing speed of about 30ppm for black prints. In this era when time is money, people tend to waste lots of time in front of printers waiting for their printouts to emerge out of the printer. A new technology, Memjet, was introduced at the 2007 Global Ink Jet Printing Conference which is capable of a print speed in excess of 60ppm. The Memjet technology was developed by Silverbrook Research based out of Australia.

What Memjet does is hard to believe: It prints letter-size output at 60 ppm"”that's one page per second"”with a 1,600- by 1,600-dot-per-inch (dpi) printer that Silverbrook says will be available in 2008 for maybe $200 to $300. Not only that, but the projected cost per page is less than 2 cents for a monochrome page and less than 6 cents for a color page.

The technology is derived out of the LED printers where the printhead moves back and forth across the page. Thousands of tiny nozzles fire ink onto the page using either the dye sublimation technology or thermal technology.

Plus, this technology will yield long lasting printers as well as it has lesser number of moving parts.

PC Magazine