Zuta Labs have unveiled a wireless free-roaming mobile printer
The pocket-sized robot takes about a minute to print out a page
It's light and small enough to fit in your hand and it can print on any paper
The company are currently running a kickstarter to get funding
They say the gadget will go on sale in January 2015
Every day we hear of more things going mobile, but nobody seems to have paid much attention to the printer.
That is, until now, as one company has unveiled their 'revolutionary' printing robot.
The pocket-sized wireless gadget rolls across paper and prints out whatever you tell it to.
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And now they’re looking for funding via Kickstarter to bring their product to market in early 2015.
‘Print machines nowadays are essentially a printhead running left and right on a moving piece of paper,’ they write on Kickstarter.
‘We asked ourselves, why not get rid of the entire device, just put the printhead on a set of small wheels and let it run across a piece of paper.
‘By doing so, we allow the printer to really be as little as possible. ‘
It also allows the user to print on any size of paper.
The device works by using a sliding hatch underneath.
When the printer is activated, this reveals the inkjet.
Wheels then move the robot across paper, printing out whatever is required as it goes.
An omni-wheel system enables the printer to turn and drive accurately in any direction.
To print something, a user merely needs to send their request to the device via Bluetooth.
The device itself, made of polycarbonate, will come in either black or white.
POCKET PRINTER SPECIFICATIONS
Dimensions: 4 inches (10 cm) high and 4.5 inches (11.5 cm) in diameter.
Weight: About 300 grams (0.66 pounds)
Print Speed: 1.2 pages per minute.
Print Quality: 96x192 dpi (and eventually higher)
Ink: One black cartridge.
Connectivity: Wireless.
Interface: Bluetooth
Battery: 1 hour.
Operating system: Android, IOS, Linux, OSX, Windows.
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