All the stories tagged with printing

Bacteria harnessed as nature’s 3D printer

10/06/2011, 3D printing has clearly gotten far more affordable these days thanks to the advancement in technology, but that doesn’t mean such printers are dirt cheap as the inkjets that you see lurking on store shelves all over the place. Folks [...]

Inkjet printers could alter solar energy industry

06/29/2011, Who would have thought that inkjet printers, a relatively low-cost technology which has brought about changes in home and small office printing, might soon be able to lower the overall cost of harnessing solar energy? Engineers over at Oregon State [...]

Cheaper 3D printer from Vienna University of Technology

05/18/2011, A research team over at the Vienna University of Technology have managed to achieve what could very well usher in the age of cheap 3D printers in homes across America. This device is touted to reproducetiny, tailor-made 3D-objects at home, [...]

Toshiba green copier produces erasable documents

12/20/2010, Toshiba is busy working on a eco-friendly green copy machine that is capable of producing printouts that can be erased. The printed documents can be easily turned blank by heating them with a special device. The magic is due to [...]

Apple iPad could get printing capability

05/10/2010, Looks like the Apple iPad is onto something here – it could very well benefit from the ability to send information directly to a printer to get stuff printed out, without the need to transfer files over to an actual [...]

EggDrawer Automated Egg Writer

05/04/2009, Easter might be over, but that doesn’t mean you can’t continue making art using egg shells – as with what Roywanglu has done with his automated egg writer known as the EggDrawer. Very little is known about the machine, but [...]