Ever have that sense of panic when you’re standing in line at the grocery store and can’t remember your constitutional rights? Well, then you need the CONSTI2GO, a clever little device that lets you print out a full copy of the U.S. Constitution in receipt form.
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Want free prints of your favorite pictures? Don’t mind seeing an ad on the back of each print? Then you’ll love Flag. It’s an upcoming image-printing service that comes with its own dedicated app that lets user print 4″x6″ photos for free.
The free prints are made possible by the sponsors’ ads that are printed on the opposite side of the picture. This shouldn’t be a big deal if you’re just printing photos for remembrance that you’ll just be keeping in an album. And it’s free in the strictest sense, because you won’t even have to pay for shipping or handling!
Select 20 photos from your camera, Facebook, Instagram or favorite social network and tap ‘Print’. Flag will print and mail your pictures to you, or someone you love, free. No shipping, no handling, no BS.
On the back of each print, you can include details about the camera, additional comments, and a QR code which can be used for ordering reprints. Flag will also offer upgraded features like rounded corners or fancy edges, as well as postcards and giant mosaic prints.
Flag recently reached its goal on Kickstarter, so you should be seeing the app for iOS and Android sometime this Summer.
The printed word is dying, but the printed keyboard is alive and kicking. And no, you won’t need a 3D printer to make one. A company called Novalia has made an incredibly thin Bluetooth keyboard made of photo paper, conductive ink and its proprietary electronic module.
Novalia made the keyboard to show off its advancements in printed technology, particularly the electronic module based on Nordic Semiconductor’s system-on-a-chip and a printing process that allows conventional printers to mass produce capacitive sensors.
Novalia’s technology could be used to make not just keyboards but other input devices as well, and existing printing presses could churn out hundreds of overlays with built-in sensors in a matter of minutes. Nordic Semiconductor says the module can last for up to nine months on a single CR2032 button cell battery.
I’m not sure if Novalia will make the keyboard available to the public. It does have Switchboard, a much simpler version of the keyboard on its online shop . That one’s made of foam board and has eight capacitive keys and sells for £25 (~$41 USD)
[via Geeky Gadgets & Nordic Semiconductor]
For office workers concerned about cutting costs and environmental impacts, clicking the print button triggers an ongoing internal debate. Many people find reading words on a printed page to be a hard habit to break when the only alternative is reading them on glowing screen.
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3D printing isn’t mainstream right now, but its definitely not the final frontier, there’s a world beyond it as well. 4D prints might be a new concept for the average joe to wrap his head around, but its actually quite simple. Printvid, the world’s first full package for making 4D video prints, adds two additional dimensions to a printed image, third being depth and fourth being time, which is necessary for displaying motion. Printvid can transform all visual media into a 4D print while protecting it from color fading, water and scratches. Best of all, users don’t need to add additional hardware to their device or normal inkjet printer.
What it basically does is use lenticular printing technology and cloud software that helps people make 4D prints using their conventional inkjet printers. There are a lot of uses for this technology, it can be used to create 4D magnets, puzzles, calendars, educational material for children, 3D art and much more. Through the Printvid Cloud app, users can prepare their photos and videos for 4D printing, filters and effects can be applied, texts and frames can be added after which it can be transformed in an interlaced image which will be ready for printing. Since its a web based app, users have the flexibility to access their content through any device that has a compatible web browser. Inkjet printers with 300+ DPI will work nicely with Printvid, most printers are easily capable of printing 1200 to 4800 DPI. Printvid is a crowdfunded project, it aims to raise $45,000. The lowest you can contribute right now is for 30 4D Printvids and an accompanying cloud account is $65.
Printvid Brings Four-Dimensional Video Prints original content from Ubergizmo. 
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This article was written on March 22, 2011 by CyberNet.
There are all kinds of PDF printers out there, but one I’ve been using for a while is Bullzip PDF Printer. It’s nice because of its simplicity, and at the same time offers various configuration options that will let you tweak it to meet your needs. My favorite feature is that this supports more than just PDF as a “save to” format, and the other types include BMP, EPS, JPEG, PCX, PNG, PS, and TIFF.
Bullzip also has printing profiles, called Option Sets, that can be created so that you can quickly switch between various print settings. As you can imagine the usefulness of this will vary from user to user, but I know a lot of people who like to put watermarks on some documents but not on others. This becomes a lot easier when you can switch between the profiles in a few clicks.
Here are some of the developer-specified features of Bullzip:
This is a free app for both personal and commercial use as long as there are less than 10 users. Personally I’m using the Beta version of Bullzip that they have available for download on their site, which was just recently released.
Bullzip PDF Printer (Windows only; Freeware)
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Android KitKat was just announced yesterday
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Multitouch user interfaces are slowly finding their way into all kinds of devices, not just phones and tablets. And thanks to researchers at MIT and the Max Planck Institute who’ve developed a printable sensor that can be easily cut down to size with a regular old pair of scissors, any device or appliance you can think of could soon be enhanced with multitouch controls.
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After a year and a half of trials and tribulations, Kodak is finally in the clear — it just exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Now that the company has finished offloading its document and personal imaging groups, it’s free to pursue a recently court-approved reorganization plan that focuses solely on business products like movie film and packaging. The resulting firm is a far cry from the camera giant that we once knew, but we may hear about its work in the future. Kodak promises more details of “what’s next,” and it tells the AP that it’s working on technology like printable touchscreen layers and smart packaging.
Filed under: Cameras
Via: Wall Street Journal
Source: Kodak
Many people are claiming that these new Meganews Magazines autonomous newstands could save the print industry. That’s maybe a bit optimistic, but at the least they’ll help reduce the mountains of wasted paper from unsold magazines since the over-sized vending machine only prints publications when they’re ordered, in just two minutes.
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