Zink Digital Camera With In-Built Printer
Few are familiar with the company, Zink, but most will know Polaroid which faced bankruptcy in 2001. Initially, Zink was a research and development project in Polaroid, but after the crash some employees bought the rights to use the name and the technology and started their own business. Zink stands for Zero ink which means that its Zink printer shouldn’t use any ink or toner.
Sound impressive, right? Certainly, there is no magic involved. Instead there is their patented Zink paper and no ink cartridge in the printer which as a result is significantly smaller compared to standard printers. As a result, it can be integrated into other devices and that’s exactly what they did. For example, this year they are going to release a Zink digital camera/printer.
Here is what My Digital Life reports.
Zink is a digital camera with a built-in full color printer which can pump out 2″x3″ borderless high quality photos. You can also instantly view and select which photos you want to print.
The specs on the camera are even decent - the camera features a 7 megapixel CCD, 3X optical zoom, it accepts SD cards and it has a 2″ indoor/outdoor color display. Zink should be released in early ‘08. The only downside we anticipate is the fact that it will only work with special Zink paper.
AskMen has included the Zink camera in its top 10 list of anticipated gadgets for 2008. I guess that a lot of people would like to have one as it allows you to instantly print photos that they’ve taken.
Watch the video to see how the original Zink printer worked worked.
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