World’s Smallest Printer in the Offing : PrintBrush
Pogo’s stay at the helm of ultra-mobile printers is coming to an end. The world’s smallest printer, PrintBrush, is about to be unveiled before this year ends. It’s developed by a London company called PrintDreams and it fits in the palm of your hand.
The technology behind the printer is quite different from what we have seen so far. The printer head does not move to deposit the ink nor is there a paper feeder to feed the paper through. The printer remembers the co-ordinates of a (say) A4 printer and while the printer head is moved over the paper manually using your hand, it deposits ink as it’s required to. If you leave a spot behind, you could move the printer over the spot to fill the void. Pretty cool huh! Don’t believe it, watch the video.
After watching the video, you could say that it resembles the cloning tool in Photoshop. That being said, the technology is new and will definitely rock your world. The printer is no mug with actual printing and is not an innovation for the sake of it; it prints at 600 X 600 dpi, which is laser quality and we expect the sourcing to happen Wi-Fi and/or Bluetooth. It is estimated to cost around £100 and we hear that the printer can only print in black. Oh well!
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Abhinav has been blogging about printing and related technologies on CreativeCloud for several years. He is also a project manager for a large technology company.
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