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A Printer Printing onto Paper

A Printer Printing onto Paper

MrBuddyCasino

Comments (26)

  • gnabgib
    No discussion, but this is from the Nikon Small World competition (4 points, yesterday) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50234796The Nikon Small World in Motion competition, which only recently ended, was troubled by the prize winner being AI generated (3 points, 24 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934521
  • nolroz
    My Dad worked on some of the early HP inkjet printers and I remember him coming home and excitedly talking about tiny pockets in an array that they they figured out they could heat up until the ink boiled and squirted a little bit out. He talked about capillary action and surface tension and how it all meant they could make the whole thing with no moving parts at all. It was really fun to watch evolve.
  • Barbing
  • nomel
    Not sure if that's bubble jet or inkjet, but I think inkjets are very very cool!For a deep dive of inkjets, there's a conference that posts talks: https://youtube.com/@theijcAnd, a shallower dive of the complexities of inks is the great "engineerguy": https://youtu.be/-DckWNwE7R4
  • ksec
    While this is fascinating, I am sitting here wondering if anything has improved in the Inkjet printer world.Does it still clog up? There are many be one or two more refillable ink printers but are they good? Has printing quality improved?Or are they still a bag of hurt we should all just hope for better and cheaper colour laser / LED printer.
  • dylan604
    With all of the DRM nonsense around printers and authorized print cartridges, I'm kind of shocked the cartridge doesn't also have something that prevents printing if not in an authorized printer.Not being part of a printer have anything to do with why the print looks bad? Like the thing he created to get the print head to spray ink isn't the same drivers and that's just a PoC to make the project possible? If this is just an extension cable from an actual printer, the quality looks janky to what I'd expect from modern ink jets.
  • jongjong
    It's quite amazing technology. I wonder how they managed to make ink which dries fast on paper but doesn't dry and clog up the print head.
  • lilingfei7
    cool
  • x23ink
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  • kensaito
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  • gaudat
    AI slop picture i swear. Inkjet heads essentially boils ink to jet (see?) it out of tiny nozzels. Never drips like that.Yes i didn't bother reading the caption.