Inkjet printers are essentially useful when it comes to printing photo, images and all other sorts of colored documents. However, these type of machines rarely get an ample of media capacity to hold a massive amount of paper sheets or other media types. Unlike lasers that can support more than two optional trays to maximize the unit's paper capacity, inkjets are typically limited to hold up to150-250 sheets. Well basically, they're not intended for high-speed and high-volume printing, but rather leaning towards providing high-quality graphic printouts.
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But, what if you can have an inkjet printer that can take a stack of media up to a thousand sheets or more? Yes, I actually said stack, a pile is also an appropriate term to use for this one. A typical printer, whether that's an inkjet or a laser, uses either a tray or a drawer to hold media. But after Mugi Yamamoto, an Industrial Designer from Switzerland came up with a peculiar yet outstanding printer concept, things will rather change extremely when you meet the Stack printer.
His genius designed of an inkjet printer that sits on top of a stock of paper and munches like the classic game Pacman (if you're familiar with it), but this one feeds it way down through a pile of papers. The concept, or rather the designed was named Stack as it literally sits on top of a stack. Just like a common inkjet device with rollers and feeder, the Stack printer has the same components but are installed underneath to catch paper sheets one at a time until the unit touches the last piece.
The design is remarkably slim and compact as it should be. Although users are required to take off the printouts on top to avoid any paper problems. But according to its genius inventor, the Stack printer can take approximately 200 sheets of paper on top. So just imagine how it would look like to have a printer sandwich it between two piles of papers.
Gears and all other components comprising the printer are almost the same as what you can see from a typical inkjet. Even the consumables it use are the standard four color inkjet cartridges as well. Based on the images provided from Mugi Yamamoto's official website, it seems that his concept printer uses a single black ink cartridge and a 3-in-1 color cartridge (cyan, magenta, yellow).
I just can't wait to see this exciting printer, I mean is there anyone who wouldn't want to have such device? If it's possible to produce this printer for the masses I'd be glad to have one for myself. It's fascinating how it eliminates the bulkiest and also one of the heaviest part of a printer which is the paper cassette, tray or drawer, whatever you call it.
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