A4 too small for you?

By Matt on Thursday 3 July 2003 at 12:04

Have a look at Hektor. The biggest printer I've ever seen. Its quite clearly the work of a hobbyist/student as I don't think anyone would pay you to do this. I think it is a spectacular feat of engineering/programming and the creators should be proud. (Well, I'm impressed anyway.)

Look at the pictures and if you want to know how it works then flick through the .pdf file. Its worth downloading the movie (but only if you're at work: its 15MB) - don't fast-forward it though, watch it all the way through.

5 comments:

On Thursday 3 July 2003 at 12:05, Matt said:

On a slightly pedantic note, it is often referred to as a dot matrix printer, however, due to the continuous nature of the x-y movement of the 'printer head', it is not confined to the discrete raster of a matrix. Therefore I think it should be called a line plotter.

On Thursday 3 July 2003 at 14:32, pAlmer said:

haha wicked - spray painting by numbers!

but should it not be referred to as a hangin' printer?!

On Thursday 3 July 2003 at 15:18, Mark Bell said:

Jesus!

Just last week Ben and I were trying to figure out how to output A3 posters for the Phoenix Park festival. This would have been ideal, if somewhat overkill....

I think it should be called the 'fucking big' printer.

But then, I haven't been to university Wink

On Thursday 3 July 2003 at 22:52, kavi said:

huge it is...fuck...it so dotty..

On Monday 7 July 2003 at 13:31, pAlmer said:

and the bbc catches up:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3045158.stm

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