Designed for portability, the Z340 combines a 14.0 megapixel digital camera with a ZINK-enabled printer using the ink-free Zero Ink Printing Technology from ZINK Imaging to deliver a 3x4'' print - the same size as the classic Polaroid photos that captured millions of special memories over the past 63 years.
The technology's versatility across all display sizes is made possible through cost-effective ink jet printing that requires no vacuum deposition.
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Cameras, like the array of printers HP sells, are for the most part a means to an end: driving the consumption of more high-margin printing supplies such as ink cartridges.
Half of that was papermaking, ink mixing, printing, transport, inventory, and the warehousing of physical goods.
Meanwhile, printing the digital images with an ink-jet printer at home brings back fond memories of darkrooms under the stairs with trays of developer, acetic acid and hypo.
No more addressing, printing, gluing, and dying for ink toner.
Before HP brought us the low-priced ink-jet printer all office printing was black.
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It got money from Toppan, the Japanese printing company, which signed on with E Ink to help develop color displays.
Once upon a time not too long ago, document signage involved downloading the document, printing it off, picking up a pen with either black or blue ink and signing off at the appropriate places, scanning the document once signed, uploading it, attaching the paperwork to an email, and then finally sending off that email back in reply with your signature.
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Dye, ink and paper tend to be more expensive for this method of printing than with normal color printers.
Computers can nearly recreate a letterpress look by putting filters over type, but they can't reproduce the irregular look that comes from ink buildup on the type and the varying pressures applied during the printing process.
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