Wednesday, October 03, 2007

ZINK Printers

Zero Ink Printing

ZINK™ stands for Zero Ink - a new way to print and experience full color digital images without the need for ink cartridges or ribbons. The ZINK™ Technology encompasses both the ZINK™ Paper and the intelligence embedded in every ZINK™ Enabled device.

Patent Pending

Over 100 patents and patents pending were generated in the development of this breakthrough technology.

Portable Printing

ZINK™ Technology is a platform with an endless variety of product and market applications. Imagine printing where never before possible. Imagine devices in your pocket, on your desktop, embedded in a new consumer electronic device, or even hanging on the wall. Imagine creating beautiful photographs of all sizes, posters, identification cards, or labels fast without ever needing to buy an inkjet or thermal cartridge ever again.

How ZINK Works

ZINK™ is a breakthrough technology that produces on-demand color images and photos - without ink, ribbons or toner. The ZINK™ Technology enables a new category of color printers and paper that work as a system to print in a whole new way.

The key to this process is the patented ZINK™ Paper, an advanced composite material with cyan, yellow, and magenta dye crystals embedded inside and a protective polymer overcoat layer outside.

ZINK Paper Structure

These crystals, named Amorphochromic crystals, represent an entirely new class of molecules, invented by ZINK Scientists through a rigorous discovery process. The properties of each dye crystal were finely tuned to achieve the color palette and image stability required for beautiful, full-color digital prints.

ZINK AmorphochromicTM Dye Crystals

Before printing, the embedded dye crystals are colorless, so ZINK™ Paper looks like regular white photo paper. A ZINK™ Enabled device uses heat to activate and colorize these dye crystals. ZINK scientists also invented a way to activate each of the crystals independently using heat pulses of precisly determined duration and temperature to achieve any color under the rainbow. The printing process is now radically simple.

Zink Paper

Key Features of ZINK™ Paper:
  • Zero ink required.
  • Capable of reproducing millions of vivid colors at very high resolution
  • Non-toxic and safe making it earth-friendly
  • Protected by a polymer overcoat, providing water resistance and image durability
  • Affordable for everyday use
  • Not sensitive to light
  • Long lasting and designed to resist fading from exposure to light, heat and humidity

Introducing 2x3 Semi-gloss ZINK™ Paper!

The first ZINK™ Paper available will be for use in our partners' ZINK-enabled™ mobile products - the Mobile Printer and the Integrated Digital Camera and Printer. These product concepts will create 2"x3" ZINK prints to enable printing anytime, anywhere.

ZINK Paper

Key Features:

  • All the features of ZINK Paper above
  • High quality, full-color, and durable images
  • 2"x3" (business card) format
  • Semi-gloss finish
  • Adhesive backing


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