Printers

You Don’t Need Talent To Make Pancake Art, Just This Printer

It’s ok to stop feeling guilty about serving your kids boring old round pancakes after seeing some of the amazing flapjack art popping up online. Some of it is certainly created by hand, but there are also probably a few cheaters out there using devices like the PancakeBot printer. Admittedly, the results are still very…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski May 16

What Exactly Is In Those Stupid Expensive Printer Ink Cartridges?

What’s inside an ink cartridge? The short answer is a lot of (expensive!) water, 95 percent in fact. But mixed in is a fascinatingly complex soup of other chemicals that control the ink’s properties down to the micro-drop. Of course, knowing all that doesn’t make shelling out for a new one any less painful. [Wired]

Tech News Eric Limer Apr 25

Anybody With a Printer Can Make These Origami-Inspired Robots

We were promised robots. The future, science fiction told us, would be a world swarming with automatons that did all the jobs we didn’t want. But you know what? Robots are really expensive and hard to build. Two MIT scientists want to change all that with inkjet printers and techniques borrowed from origami. MIT robotics…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Apr 11

Pocket-Sized Wonder-Printer Would Work Its Own Way Across a Page

With what has to be one of the most ambitious Kickstarter projects to come along in a while, the folks behind this Mini Mobile Robotic Printer want to revolutionize the mobile office. Because of instead of carrying a page-wide device that has to pull paper through it, this little marvel will instead print directly on…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Apr 10

This Handy Hack Makes Any Receipt Printer Spit Out the Constitution

Ever have that sense of panic when you’re standing in line at the grocery store and can’t remember your constitutional rights? Well, then you need the CONSTI2GO, a clever little device that lets you print out a full copy of the U.S. Constitution in receipt form. Unfortunately, the CONSTI2GO isn’t really something you can buy…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Mar 14

How Apple Became the Choice of Creatives Everywhere, 30 Years Ago

These days we take design on computers for granted, but 30 years ago we were still surrounded by low-res screens, clunky interfaces and command prompts. Way back then, though, was when Apple stole the lead and became the choice of creatives everywhere. This video describes how the Apple Laserwriter—a printer, of all things—cemented Apple as…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Mar 13

A Printer For People With Terrible Penmanship and Scissor Skills

Most printer news these days involves expensive 3D models designed to create almost anything from melted plastic. But Cricut’s new Explore model still deals with paper, just not how your inkjet at home does. Like its predecessor, using a small blade on its ‘print head’ the Explore can actually slice up a page however you…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jan 23

This LED Printer Creates Fleeting Messages on Photosensitive Paper

Liat Segal’s Confession Machine printer isn’t designed for running copies of TPT reports at work, unless you’re really making an effort to realize a truly paperless office. Because instead of ink or toner, Segal’s creation uses an array of 16 ultraviolet LEDs to ‘print’ messages on a static surface covered with a photosensitive paint that…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 22

This Tiny Printer Only Prints What You Select On Your Screen

Do you feel guilty printing out an entire email when all you really needed was someone’s address? King Jim’s new compact Cocodori printer is designed for just those occasions. Using an included piece of software, it lets you highlight only specific areas of your screen for printing. And what you’re left with is a receipt-sized…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jan 16

Scrapbookers Rejoice! Casio’s Pomrie Prints Adorable Rubber Stamps

If you’ve ever been dragged into a craft store you’ll know that—for whatever reason—scrapbooking is a booming business. And Casio has decided it wants a piece of that glitter-covered pie with the introduction of a printer called the Pomrie that can actually churn out custom rubber stamps. Using bundled software crafters can choose designs and…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 7

Fujifilm’s Instax Printer Turns Phone Snaps Into Instant Film Photos

These days, everything is instant photography, but no matter how many filters you smear onto that smartphone picture, it’s never going to have the wonderful feel of the photos a Polaroid used to spit out. But now you can approximate that level of satisfaction thanks to Fujifilm’s new Instax Share SP-1 printer. The Instax Share…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jan 6

Labelmaking Enthusiasts, This Is Your Apollo 11

Unless you’re obsessively organized, or love the iconic aesthetics of the old-school manual models, it’s really hard to muster much excitement for a labelmaker. But somehow Epson has managed to create the perfect tiny printer for the smartphone age. For the casual user it’s finally an easy way to bring a little bit of order…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 4

A Free App Can Save Your iPhone 5C From Looking Hideous In Its Case

If you snatched up the colorful iPhone 5C and its perforated case before you realized what an eyesore it is, there’s now a cheap and simple solution to the problem. The developers at LunarLincoln have just released a free app called CaseCollage that lets you create and print an insert that fills all those cheese…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Oct 11

This Kiosk Prints Magazines and Newspapers As They’re Purchased

Many people are claiming that these new Meganews Magazines autonomous newstands could save the print industry. That’s maybe a bit optimistic, but at the least they’ll help reduce the mountains of wasted paper from unsold magazines since the over-sized vending machine only prints publications when they’re ordered, in just two minutes. The kiosk has access…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Sep 3

If You Thought an Ink Printer Could Never Amaze You Again, You’re Wrong

It’s hard to get excited about a printer these days, and while Canon’s new Océ ColorWave 900 is priced and targeted at high-end print shops, it’s still absolutely remarkable to see the thing in action. Capable of printing more than 12,000-square-feet per hour, the 900 can create 3.4 billion drops of ink every second. To…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Aug 9

Some Xerox Copiers Are Going Rogue and Changing Numbers for Fun

Paper jams are the most basic weapon in copier vs. human warfare, but a few models of Xerox copiers are stepping up their game. They’ve been very stealthily going rogue and secretly changing a few key details of the docs they’ve been working on. This subtle subterfuge seems to be perpetrated specifically by Xerox Workcentre…

Tech News Eric Limer Aug 6

Dropping Stuff Off of a Building Is Exactly What Slow Motion Is For

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thing falling off a building is in want of slow motion. And if you needed any proof, here’s a big ol’ heap. The folks over at Distort have done some pretty incredible footage with battling robots and thermite, but they’re not above a little, vanilla “droppin’ stuff…

Tech News Eric Limer Aug 1

Someone Finally Invented 3D-Printed Inkjet Printer Cartridges

At some point, the world of 3D printing had to fold back onto itself, leaving us all slack-jawed and wondering when 3D printers will start printing things for printers themselves? That moment is now. InkFactory, a British printing supplies company, recently showed off the capability to 3D print inkjet printer cartridges. It was as easy…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Jul 26

These Trippy Dripping Ink Portraits Are Face-Meltingly Creepy

When you’re painting, drips are usually bad. But if you’re clever enough, you can put ’em to good use. That’s what artist Ben Dehaan did with his project “Uncured,” by using a print loaded with some ultraviolet cured ink to create face-melting portraits worthy of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The process relies on the…

Tech News Eric Limer Jun 24

The Human Printer: An Automaton Powered By Art Students

“Machines have less problems,” Andy Warhol famously said in 1963. “I’d like to be a machine, wouldn’t you?” Andy was born a few decades too early to see it through, but a group of art students, who go by the Human Printer, are now living his dream. The Human Printer, or HP (see what they…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Apr 24

You Don’t Need Talent To Make Pancake Art, Just This Printer

What Exactly Is In Those Stupid Expensive Printer Ink Cartridges?

Anybody With a Printer Can Make These Origami-Inspired Robots

Pocket-Sized Wonder-Printer Would Work Its Own Way Across a Page

This Handy Hack Makes Any Receipt Printer Spit Out the Constitution

How Apple Became the Choice of Creatives Everywhere, 30 Years Ago

A Printer For People With Terrible Penmanship and Scissor Skills

This LED Printer Creates Fleeting Messages on Photosensitive Paper

This Tiny Printer Only Prints What You Select On Your Screen

Scrapbookers Rejoice! Casio’s Pomrie Prints Adorable Rubber Stamps

Fujifilm’s Instax Printer Turns Phone Snaps Into Instant Film Photos

Labelmaking Enthusiasts, This Is Your Apollo 11

A Free App Can Save Your iPhone 5C From Looking Hideous In Its Case

This Kiosk Prints Magazines and Newspapers As They’re Purchased

If You Thought an Ink Printer Could Never Amaze You Again, You’re Wrong

Some Xerox Copiers Are Going Rogue and Changing Numbers for Fun

Dropping Stuff Off of a Building Is Exactly What Slow Motion Is For

Someone Finally Invented 3D-Printed Inkjet Printer Cartridges

These Trippy Dripping Ink Portraits Are Face-Meltingly Creepy

The Human Printer: An Automaton Powered By Art Students

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