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That's a very cool project. But I wonder how it gets over the initial friction of lifting and pulling the paper through as it goes lower on the stack. Surely t
by eksith 13y ago
That's a very cool project.
But I wonder how it gets over the initial friction of lifting and pulling the paper through as it goes lower on the stack. Surely there's a limit after which, you'd need to remove the completed sheets off the top?
- spc476 13y agoFrom what I can see, it looks like there are a series of rollers that rest on the paper, which allows the printer to pull the top sheet with little, of any, friction.
- eksith 13y agoLittle friction against the device itself, but not the other sheets beneath it. The weight of the device + completed sheets on top will add to the friction between the next sheet and those below it.
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- morpher 13y agoIt looks like this is just a design concept (not a prototyped device). In addition to the initial friction issue, the printed page would not be able to be placed on top of the stack after it got too tall. So, nice looking, but unlikely to be very practical.
- ams6110 13y agonice looking, but unlikely to be very practical Bang and Olufsen sells a lot of home electronics that meet that description.
- cargo8 13y agoI could see a way where if the device was fitted with springs of some sort it would be able to "stand" or lift itself to prevent that kind of friction (of course there would be a limit to the size of the paper stack on top, but you could probably design it / fit it with springs such that the limit is practical (and far more than the amount of paper someone would logically use for this) This is freaking beautiful. I hope it can work.
- veidr 13y agoThere has to be a limit, but in most real world use, people rarely leave tons of paper on the printer without collecting it (of course there are exceptions).
- bryogenic 13y agoMaybe the way they are looking at it is like this: Top Paper 1 --------- Gap Tray 2 --------- Bottom Paper Paper would be collected from bottom using standard scanner/paper style paper grabbing, scanned or printed to and placed in Gap Tray. Gap tray and entire top paper stack need lifted and placed back on support layer 1. Pages would probably be upside down of their original unless they were fed back and forth. All the paper would need lifted up, so there would be a limit, unless... a different idea would be the same thing along a horizontal track of papers. I'm still liking the idea of a scanner shredder. http://designforpeople.ca/?p=215 http://designforpeople.ca/?p=215 To extend this stack design make it like an inverted shredder with a 5" shop vac hose connected to the top :P
- eksith 13y agoClever! A scanner that digitizes text as it destroys it can see some good use in a disposal/archival location. The Gap Tray itself would still need to rest on something while it grabs the bottom sheet. There may be slightly less effort if it grabs the sheets from the side rather than from top/bottom. This way, has a shorter distance it has to pull through, but the friction may still be significant. All this talk has really whet my appetite, though. Now I really want to see it come to life.
- philsnow 13y agoReminds me of Vinge's "Rainbow's End", there was a device which shredded whole books, then sucked the confetti through a hose that had tiny cameras in the walls, and they stitched scans of the original books together in software.
- brador 13y agoClever until the scanner part breaks but the shredder keeps shredding.
- BrandonY 13y agoWait...what happens if there's a paper jam halfway through scanshredding?