Imagine a bookstore that prints your purchases while you settle the bill or a personalized newspaper that contains only the news you want to read. Such expedient printing may soon become a reality using a new Israeli technology that will enable printing 1,000 pages a minute at affordable prices. Two researchers from The College of Judea and Samaria – Moshe and Nissim Einat – have developed a revolutionary printing technique called Jetrix, which enables simultaneous high- speed printing of an entire page of text. The technology combines printing and Liquid Crystal Technology (LCD) methods to make a page-sized printing array that emits ink instead of light. ‘We are reducing the limitations of printing heads,’ explains Moshe Einat, senior lecturer at the college’s Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Einat’s inspiration for rethinking print methods came from flat-screen display technologies. In the past display screens used a cathode ray tube to ‘scan’ the picture across the screen similar to the way a printer fills a page with text. With LCDs a screen-sized array of light emitting diodes creates the displayed picture and simultaneously changes to display each new image. Einat posed the question whether the same concept could […]