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Canon's $280,000 printer is more printer than you need
Most printers that people buy these days are cheap little things that cost less than the ink that you need to buy to get them to work. I mean, who prints stuff these days? Besides the occasional article or tickets, printing is fast becoming something that almost nobody needs to do. But what if you really need to print stuff, and you're super serious about it?
Well, you can always get a Canon ImagePRESS C7000VP. This is the granddaddy of all printers, costing a whopping $280,000 and requiring 33 feet of wall space. Yes, 33 feet. It can print 70 pages per minute at 1200dpi, which is about as many pages as I print in a year. But hey, if you are rich, have 33 feet of wall space you aren't using, and want to spend a few million on ink every year, this is the printer for you.
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By digicopydog at 3:00 PM ON 02/04/08
You have to be kidding me! Are trying to compare a desktop inkjet printer to a production level toner based printer? Please do your research before you write another article.
By murray at 6:17 PM ON 02/04/08
Your premise is ridiculous, Adam, since this is obviously an industrial printer. And to answer your question, "who prints stuff these days," try mailing houses. How many letters do you think a government sends every day? Hundreds of thousands. I used to operate a printer like this for a mailing house, and our main customers were government departments such as Veterans' Affairs. They haven't changed much, except that mine took it's data from reel to reel tapes. It was almost as fast as this one.
By Rebecca at 7:45 AM ON 02/05/08
Adam - did you happen to read the article in the Washington Post about the Gov going paperless for the Budget this year? To print copies of the Budget = 2,200 pages per copy x 3,000 copies of the budget = 20 tons of paper or 480 trees! I would guess that the White House is not using a desktop for this - lets hope not!
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