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iphone needs a built in printer

Why on earth would anyone want a camera in a phone, I mean.

camera, pictures, iphone, documents, pda type thing, work, away from office, no printer nearby. Wouldn't it be great to book a cinema ticket on line using your phone and print out your ticket too.

Call it stupid but I saw the video and I doubt they would have produced a working prototype if they hadn't done their homework.
 
i really cant tell if you're serious. a pinter in a phone? do you know how much room that would take up. why not just give it the ability to print to bluetooth printers or network printers?
 
Must be a yoke surely :)

Bluetooth or wireless to other printer would be smart...
 
LiveForever said:
camera, pictures, iphone, documents, pda type thing, work, away from office, no printer nearby. Wouldn't it be great to book a cinema ticket on line using your phone and print out your ticket too.
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why would you need to print a cinema ticket? I book online, then arrive at the cinema or theatre, give my name, and they say here you go. Or I type in my passcode from the website into the ticket machine, and it gives me my ticket.

In london, all the main train stations have ticket pickup machines that work like this.

Or just swipe my credit card in the machine to pick up my pre-booked ticket.

Soon, I might be able to just swipe my wallet over the cinema machine, like how london underground's oyster works - no need to take my card out of my wallet or use any paper ticket.

I think some countries are putting that type of near-range-radio chip in their mobile phones too.

Home-printed tickets (e.g. boarding passes) generally need to be combined with some other ID to actually get in, so printing tickets on a mobile is unlikely to actually save any time.

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No they say it can be done - see that video in the first post.

Whether anyone want to do it is another matter but this mob have a printers which can fit into a mobile phone or up to A0 and beyond in length.

I have read about them in the Aussie press here

I would take a good guess they are talking to apple(about printers in general that is) as apparently they are in discussions with OEM's and the like.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2107758,00.asp
http://www.memjet.com/pages.aspx?id=videoimages

From the PC mag article
Executives said they're in discussions with PC OEMs and consumer-electronics makers who are looking to differentiate themselves in a cutthroat market. They refused to comment, however, when asked about specific names, such as Dell, which has marketed its own branded printers. However, the small startup has worked more than a decade on building the perfect printer.

According to Kim Beswick, the vice president of marketing for Memjet, the company's 100-patents-per-year rate was dismissed by its more established competitors, who wondered if the Australian startup was simply amassing research technologies. To a point, that's true; Silverbrook's engineers – many of whom boast three degrees, Beswick said – are funded by licensing. Memjet, the company that will market the printer technologies, will fund Silverbrook's ongoing research.

Silverbrook was founded by Kia Silverbrook, who has spent a decade perfecting the technology. The U.S. Patent Office has approved 1,452 patents with Silverbrook's name on them, more than Thomas Edison. The third most recent? A patent for placing a printer in a cellular phone – which Silverbrook has demonstrated a working model of as well, said Bill McGlynn, the chief executive of Memjet's home and office business.

"Early on, these patents were fairly low level, not enough to grab anyone's attention," Beswick said. "Nobody expected a company in Sydney to have anything significant; they thought [Silverbrook] was patenting for patent purposes.

"In 2005 and 2006 we shot up; we started passing HP and Epson in inkjet patents, and we were right up there with Canon," Beswick added. "People started asking questions."
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