Mini Giant crawling printer allows printing on the go

By Naresh KumarChauhan /Jul 18 2009

Winning entry at the Zero Boundaries Zink Product Design Competition, in the "Futures" category, the "Mini Giant" by designer Paula Adina Sumalan is a robotic printer that lets you print a large format poster with a portable gadget that literally fits in your palm or a side pocket of your backpack. Employing "inkless printing" technology of Zink, the portable printer self-propels itself over a sheet of Zink paper of any size to take a print, without the need for ink cartridges or ribbons. The futuristic printer is gonna be a boon for the users always on the move.

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