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Let’s face it: even clever 2D printers aren’t usually fun to watch. Mugi Yamamoto’s Stack concept livens things up a bit, however. Instead of relying on a tray, the printer swallows paper from a column underneath — like an animal that only eats company reports. The trayless design isn’t just for novelty’s sake, though. Stack is more portable than its conventional peers, and it’s much less of a hassle to reload. Yamamoto has had a working Stack prototype for months, but he now tells Wired that he’s looking for companies that could produce a commercial version. We’re hoping that someone takes him up on his offer; it could add a little more excitement to our office printing jobs.

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Are you pretty good with your hands that you like to tinker with older machines to create something different and new out of it? This particular group of design students share such an interest, where they took apart old inkjet printers, replacing the ink cartridge with different colored felt pens. This creative force comprises of Jaan Evart, Julian Hagen and Daniël Maarleveld who are students at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, where their hacked inkjet printers were able to develop their own individual rhythm and style, making “artwork” that is truly one-of-a-kind.

One of the many potential banana skins that they had to negotiate were to fool the printer into thinking that it had a full cartridge, as well as preserve the paper’s structural integrity without placing too much pressure on the felt pen, as well as making sure the paper is sucked in gently and properly. Will such artwork produced from a hacked inkjet printer be worth anything? Who knows, when it comes to art, crazier things have happened.

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It’s always a sad day when news come in of hard-working folks losing their cherished jobs — and, unfortunately, today’s one of those dismal days. In a detailed press release, Lexmark’s let it be known it’ll be be undergoing a company-wide restructure, but with the main focus being the exiting of the outfit’s inkjet hardware development and manufacturing — which, in the end, should save the printer maker about $95 million per year once the plan has taken place. Naturally, this doesn’t come without any repercussions, as Lexmark’s announced these restructuring actions will see around 1,700 worldwide jobs be lost; 1,100 of which are manufacturing positions, and also include the closing of an inkjet supplies manufacturing plant in the Philippines. Needless to say, we can only hope Lexmark sees better days. For now, however, you can peruse over the company’s official word in the presser located right past the break.

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