Zink and Polaroid’s inkless printers hit stores this Sunday

Zink and Polaroid’s inkless printers hit stores this Sunday

After years of gestation, Zink Imaging will finally get its ink-free printers into the U.S. market this Sunday with the launch of the Polaroid PoGo in Best Buy stores.

Zink, whose name means “zero ink,” has talked about its innovative technology for some time. It basically embeds chemical dyes inside paper. It passes the paper through a heater, which melts the dyes in the right places to create images on a piece of paper.

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Zink: A printer that doesn’t use ink

Zink: A printer that doesn’t use ink

Zink, a company presenting at the DEMO conference today, announces a novel printing technology: A printer that needs no ink.

Zink printers heat up a printing element and roll plastic paper past the print head once, and presto, a 2-by-3-inch picture comes out dry in 30 seconds.

Dean Takahashi, of the Merc, has the scoop (here’s the link) on this Waltham, Mass. spin-out from Polaroid. This will usher in a range of new devices. Later this year,… Continue Reading