Zink Inkless Pocket Photo Printing Presented by: Chase Ayres.

Zink Inkless Pocket Photo Printing

Presented by:Chase Ayres

is changing the way the world thinks about printing

Past and the Future

In 2005, a group of former Polaroid employees In 2005, a group of former Polaroid employees formed a company called Zinkformed a company called Zink

Zink stands for “zero ink”Zink stands for “zero ink” They transformed Konica Minolta paper They transformed Konica Minolta paper

factory into a production of paper that is factory into a production of paper that is embedded with heat-activated dyesembedded with heat-activated dyes

Comparison

Out with the old In with the new

Zink Paper

Zink paper is an advanced paper with yellow, magenta and blue dye crystals

The crystals are embedded inside the paper

A protective polymer layer of overcoat on the outside

Zink Photo Paper

Zink has claimed that they can manufacture paper at a cheaper cost than regular paper and ink

How it prints?

A photographic paper scrolls past a print head Tiny resistors aligned in a row each heat up to

specific temperatures Transferring yellow, magenta, and blue dye

onto the paper Together the crystals colorize End result is 2-inch by 3-inch print

What sets Zink Apart?

Allows printing where it currently does not exist

Prints without the need of ink cartridges or ribbons

Built into a small, pocket-size camera

Zink’s Advantages

Zink allows printing to be readily available

You can print at-home, on-the-go, at work, or even at play

Don’t need ink cartridges or ribbons

Manufacturing

Zink imaging operating facility is located in Whitsett, North Carolina

Their coating capabilities feature an aqueous-based coater that supplies and coats multi-layers in a single pass utilizing a slide hopper coating technology

Solution flows are controlled with mass flow meters and controlled within 1% of specification

Multiple filtration is available for each solution line

Pogo

Polaroid inkless print Can connect to digital

camera or mobile phone

Via USB cord or Bluetooth

You can Find Pogo at many locations

Tomy Xiao TIP-521

All in one Five-megapixel digital camera and a inkless printer

Has a 2.48 full color LCD screen

TOMY Xiao TIP-521

Polaroid Pogo

Price Not released yet

Between $81- 100 dollars,

Megapixels 5 Just printer

Photos Water and tear resistant photos

Water and tear resistant photos

Time it takes to print

Little over a minute

6o seconds

Table

What is in the Near Future

Digital cameras is not the only device that Zink may be featured in

In the future you might see Zink printing compatibility with…………..

Links to outside websites

http://www.zink.com/http://www.jumpintotomorrow.com

References

Zink. 2008. 16 Nov. 2008 <http://www.zink.com/>.

Physo. 2003. 17 Nov. 2008 <http://http://www.physorg.com/news120823058.html>.

Jumpintotomorrow. 17 Nov. 2008 <http://www.jumpintotomorrow.com/template/index.php?tech=137>.