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...that's the dirty little secret of inkjet printing: the machine is cheap, but using it can cost a fortune. Unlike laser printers, whose powder-like ink works great with ordinary paper, inkjets' nozzles eject expensive liquid ink that looks its best only on specially coated paper. On a laser printer, ink-and-paper costs average just 2[cents] a page. With an inkjet, the price per page starts at 5[cents] for black text on plain paper, then skyrockets to more than $1 a page for color photos on glossy paper...
...your Special Report on Innovation [INVENTORS & INVENTIONS, Dec. 4], the article "A New Factory for a New Age," about an advanced powder metallurgy press, contained some inaccuracies. Although the new metal powder compacting system developed by Mii Technologies that you focused on is a genuine breakthrough, it was wrong to characterize the compacting presses currently in use as "remarkably crude." They are light-years away from that description. Today's presses are computer-monitored precision-production machines that can produce high-quality products at a fast rate. You were also wrong to state that current powder presses are the size...
...powder press may change all that, turning American industry on its head. That, as it happens, is exactly what company CEO Alan Beane, 52, has wanted to do for most of his professional career. Born in Laconia, N.H., Beane, like so many New England natives, developed an admiration for the rugged factory culture that defines this corner of the country. He had manufacturing in his blood; in his youth he spent Sunday mornings poking about his grandfather's Dartmouth Woolen Mills, which produced green blankets for the U.S. military. "My image of factories came from those mornings in the mill...
...millions so many other high-tech entrepreneurs were piling up. All the while, though, what really fascinated Beane was reinventing not just products and components but the factory itself--creating a digital manufacturing system for the New Economy. One thing that caught his attention was the problem of the powder press. He wondered if it was possible to update the Industrial Age brute. Before he could venture onto this alien turf, however, he knew he needed help--and realized he could get it from his younger brother Glenn...
...MORE JUNGLE ROT INVENTOR: SUMNER BARENBERG If you have ever opened a box of fruit or vegetables only to discover a carton of penicillin, Microsphere is the nontoxic microbial biocide for you. Packaged in perishables and clothing containers as a fine powder, Microsphere is inactive until humidity hits. Then, like a chemistry teacher's long-aborning dream, it turns into a gas that safely fights off bacteria and mold...