FARK.com: (581179) Researchers have created largest portable ink-jet printer in the world. Replacement ink cartridges cost $172,000

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		Researchers have created largest portable ink-jet printer in the world. Replacement ink cartridges cost $172,000 (news.bbc.co.uk)		31
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Sven_Burger		2003-07-07 08:31:46 AM

But they can save $150,000 and buy the refill kit instead!

Chipper2		2003-07-07 09:12:44 AM

I hope they are getting all the email that I get, offering discount ink jet refills.

bigstoopidbruce		2003-07-07 09:19:13 AM

Try carrot paint!

stereosaurs		2003-07-07 09:20:34 AM

It is in desperate need of more than one can of paint. What happens if I want to do a bit of work in more than one color?

GooberMcFly		2003-07-07 09:20:44 AM

Hektor can be mounted on any wall and the spray can at its heart is moved with two independently controllable pulleys.

Digital graffiti? For the progressive vandal in your life...

Richard_Feynmans_Big_Toe		2003-07-07 09:21:30 AM

wtf... so i can't have a machine paint my house but i could print out a tax form across it?

SockMonkeyHolocaust		2003-07-07 09:28:59 AM

Yes, but can it run linux?

Grand_Moff_Joseph		2003-07-07 09:30:16 AM

Probably not.

Anyway, think of this as Counter-strike spraypaint come to life!! :)

perisoft		2003-07-07 09:31:50 AM

Heh, GMJ!

Actually, it sounds like replacement ink will be about $2.75... I'd love to have one of these.

The next thing they need is one that can grab onto the wall on its own with sticky feet or suction or something.

abominableFOOLIO		2003-07-07 09:39:31 AM

still no cure for cancer?

Flashbulb		2003-07-07 09:44:44 AM

This thing is kinda' cool. The "paint head" just hangs on two chains from two gearboxes at the top corners of the wall. It just starts making dots for no particular rhyme or reason, which eventually become an image.

Long, boring video here: Hektor

Flashbulb		2003-07-07 09:48:47 AM

...sucker can render fonts like a mofo, though.

trapped-in-CH		2003-07-07 09:49:17 AM

I'd hit it.

With a sledgehammer.

abominableFOOLIO		2003-07-07 09:54:43 AM

wow, that is pretty useless

DirkValentine		2003-07-07 10:01:01 AM

and what good is this?

Silicon Sam		2003-07-07 10:01:15 AM

Sounds like they are describing a plotter, not a printer. With the two motors, it sounds like it's plotting on an XY axis and painting that way.

rreames		2003-07-07 10:07:39 AM

Holy smoking server Batman! Farked and Slashdotted at the same time.

Yellowbeard		2003-07-07 10:08:51 AM

"Some images are instantly familiar"

Uhhhh.... I don't recognize this person.

Dj_pjamicus		2003-07-07 10:10:51 AM

It's Che...

3horn		2003-07-07 10:15:04 AM

Patron saint of RATM whiners...

3Horn

Yellowbeard		2003-07-07 10:17:13 AM

Rage Against the Machine? It's not Ayn Rand, is it? God I hate her.

tnguyen88		2003-07-07 10:17:53 AM

The ink... that's where they getchya!

bucketoftruth		2003-07-07 10:19:02 AM

Yellowbeard, That's Che Guevara. He and Fidel Castro are part of a championship canadian pinball team, duh.

jaymzz		2003-07-07 10:22:18 AM

Epson's version requires a spray can with a chip in it.

EverythingIsOKException		2003-07-07 10:23:03 AM

Relatively useless, but awesome.

abdul		2003-07-07 10:28:52 AM

Didn't HP actually model their business around selling print cartridges and accessories? The printers are just a convenient way to get people to buy their ink.

Yellowbeard		2003-07-07 10:34:52 AM

bucketoftruth

Ok - I see that now - was on the cover of the Book "Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life." I used to work at a Barnes and Noble and remember seeing that book, with the big CHE on the cover ever time I walked through the Green section. But... look, that should prove my point, then, right? Poor resolution. Hell, all these years and we're going back to the dot-matrix printer?