Re: Economical printer

Matt Clara wrote:
William Graham wrote:
Paul Furman wrote:
William Graham wrote:

Well, when the price of thin, flat-screen monitors gets cheap enough, I will just take down all the pictures I have hanging in my house, and replace them with monitors...Then I will simply display any digital image of my choice on any monitor I please without having to worry about the price/quality of ink cartridges, or the cost of printers.....

Bill Gates did that. Someone posted an article about it in one of these groups recently & how it's really not as good as a print though that was in reference to paintings.

Yes....The resolution of the monitors today, and their cost, makes the idea too soon for it's time. But I can see the day in the near future when printers become obsolete. Even though their resolution is not as good as printed pictures, their brightness kind of makes up for it, even today....I would rather view my slides by scanning them into my computer and putting them on my display right now, than I would by printing them, and/or projecting them onto my beaded screen......It's true that my vision is getting poorer, so perhaps everyone wouldn't agree with me, but it is certainly true in my case........I think that if I could make 8 x 10 transparencies out of them and display them on a hanging lightbox, that would be just as satisfactory, but that would be hard for me to do, so the computer screen is a satisfactory alternative......

I'm still waiting for the paint that crystallizes into circuitry allowing one to control the colors, or display images and even wall sized murals, live scenes from exotic places in the world, sports, stag flicks--you name it--anywhere the paint is applied.

The sci-fi movie 'Minority Report' (2002 Tom Cruise) has 'digital paper' that you unroll & can load any image onto.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/ if you can stand Tom Cruise <g>.
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