The future of printers?

[Bix]

Hello,


How do you see the future of printers? How long do you think the card will no longer be used and will be completely replaced by digital?

[blackcat4866]

Re: The future of printers?

Did you know that printers are digital? There's no such thing as an analog printer. =^..^=

[NeoMatrix]

Re: The future of printers?

Did you know that printers are digital? There's no such thing as an analog printer. =^..^=

BC I feel you're not keeping up with the times.


In the year 2090 the newest most advanced technology advertised/pushed onto the paying consumer will be analogue technology,and every person will have to pay out more money to once again change over to the new modern analogue technology.
Albeit the new analogue technology will be better than digital in some areas. Which will have people amazed at how much better analogue technology is than digital....
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In the year 3090 the most advanced technology will be digital. And the paying consumer will have to change over to the modern digital era. Which will have people amazed at how much digital technology in some areas is better than analogue.

All sarcasm aside:
It still amazes me how an analogue RF (FM/FSK/QUAD) carrier signal is said to be called "digital" because the modulation carries represented compression A2D data stream. The carrier is still an analogue wave form when transmitted through the aethersphere of the earth.


Modern Technology is Amazing...

[JR2ALTA]

Re: The future of printers?

The threat against printers has always been over-hyped. It's as if the typewriter would make pens and pencils obsolete.

The relationship between businesses their clients can't be customized through a thousand different apps.

The most efficient and secure way is through paperwork. That's where we come in.

[slimslob]

Re: The future of printers?

Well, let's take a look at hospital medical records. A number of years hospital were supposed to go to "paper less" medical records. People thought that meant a reduction of paper used. It didn't. Before paper less medical records, even if all records might be stored on the HIS, when a patient was in the hospital, one printed copy was kept at the nursing station or in the patient room so that it was readily available to doctors, nurses or anyone else providing services to the patient. Now there is no printed copy kept anywhere. Hospital now have to provide all doctors, nurses, technicians, etc with laptops the use to look at records or print a set of records each time someone needs to go to a certain to the patients room, such as a doctor doing rounds. Once what ever that set was printed for has been completed, all update notes went to medical transcription to be either typed or scanned into the paper system. Following which it all went to be shredded. this could could repeat multiple times a day.

[Hansoon]

Re: The future of printers?

How do you see the future of printers? How long do you think the card will no longer be used and will be completely replaced by digital?

Well, don't know about Berlin where things might be a little different - as usual - but here in the Black-Forest are we using digital laser printers since almost 3 decades.......

Hans

[copier tech]

Re: The future of printers?

Printers will always be around, it wasn't that long ago that you would only see a printer in the office, now everyone has a printer at home!

[Jhonjon]

Re: The future of printers?

The machine of the Future?! full of technology lack of reliability.

[NeoMatrix]

Re: The future of printers?

Along the same lines....

New Copy Process:

wwww.copytechnet.com/forums/rants-raves-and-everything-else/106125-new-copy-process.html#post503527

http://www.copytechnet.com/forums/rants-raves-and-everything-else/106125-new-copy-process.html#post503527

[NeoMatrix]

Re: The future of printers?

The machine of the Future?! full of technology lack of reliability.

Lack of reliability though, means techs have an on going job and the copier parts industry stays afloat....

Oh! not forgetting. Removing all of the unreliably copier design engineers and employing new engineers straight out of the class room. The new engineers straight out of the classroom have no hindsight experience an therefore will make the next batch of unreliable copier/printer machines ... and the above profit and loss cycle will continue.

[Iowatech]

Re: The future of printers?

At gas stations that have the "Pay at pump" capability, the actual pumps have printers in them that use the exact same thermal technology that some of the analog microfilm reader/printers I worked on back in the '80s used.
Printers might change, but they won't be going away in our lifetime.

[tech28]

Re: The future of printers?

There has been talk of "Paper less society" and that all of our jobs were going to be suffering, since the early part of the 90's. The government being the government, business's have to have hard records(paper reproductions) of certain transaction's, be it, medical, financial, realty, legal, ect. So, as far as the foreseeable future, we have job security. God Bless America. MAG!

[Bix]

Re: The future of printers?

The world of technology is moving fast.

It is unpredictable. Many things no longer exist on paper.

I have read something about printers that can be interesting.

For example, the Toshiba project to make reusable paper.

[jamesyboy]

Re: The future of printers?

the future is INK, Toner is proving to be a bit nasty

hp pagewide technology

they will be easier to fix

[Bix]

Re: The future of printers?

What is INK?