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Via The Inquirer, one of the coolest things I've seen in a while - PrintDreams have applied optical motion-tracking to printers, creating a mouse-like puck that literally 'paints on' data.  While it doesn't look fun for multipage documents, they've got something going for the artistic and inventory fields.

Check out the samples - brings a new meaning to 'applying a brush!'

 

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Re: Motion-tracked inkjet - A new kind of graffiti in your p
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2003, 06:33:24 AM »
Those thoughts came to mind. :-D  Also interesting that you could use it for signage on 'unusual' surfaces- glass storefronts, say (on second thought, optical trackers don't work well on glass; you could trick it by sticking up a bit of screen if they never make a specialized variant) ... load it with an etchant and do a piece of stone, or a mask material for doing circuit boards...

As downsides, I'm sure folk'll find it hard to *avoid* marring furniture with these, as it naturally rests jet-side down (darker surfaces could be saved by reflectivity-detection), and I'd hate to see some poor mail clerk stuck 'ironing' a stack of envelopes for hours on end - hard to imagine a quicker path to RSI.