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Hands-on with the Dell Wasabi

Leonard Goh | Feb 20, 2009

The Dell Wasabi is a portable printer targeted at teenagers. (Credit: Leonard Goh/CNET Asia)

Earlier this month, Dell announced the Wasabi, a portable printer which utilizes the Zero Ink, or Zink technology. This technique can be seen as the digital equivalent to Polaroid's Instant Film. In fact, Polaroid already has the Pogo, a 3.2-megapixel digital camera with a built-in Zink printer.

The Wasabi is really light and compact. Fitting one into a jeans pocket was easy enough when we tried as it wasn't as bulky as we expected it to be. There is a removable lithium-ion battery which can last for about 15 photographs before you'll need to recharge it. We think the battery life can be improved, considering its target audience is teenagers who'll probably be printing pictures for everyone in a group photo.
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Dell Wasabi to bring portable printing to Asia

Justin Yu | Feb 11, 2009

See the gallery of photos on the Wasabi here. (Credit: Dell)

Sure, Polaroid might be 6ft under (or is it?), but casual photo enthusiasts can still enjoy instant gratification with Dell's Wasabi PZ310 Mobile Printer, just announced today in the US.

The Wasabi uses Zero-Ink (ZINK) technology that replaces cumbersome print cartridges with dye crystals embedded right into the proprietary ZINK paper. The crystals are heated as the paper passes through the printer, rendering clear, sharp images in less than a minute for each 2 x 3-inch photo.

ZINK also licenses its technology to other companies for their own unique products. For example, look for cameras and ZINK printers to converge in the Polaroid Pogo, to be released in the spring.
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Green printer that prints using coffee dregs as ink

Juniper Foo | Feb 03, 2009

(Credit: Jeon Hwan Ju/Core77)

We've seen plenty of printers in our time at CNET Asia, but this one is most definitely to our taste. Korean designer Jeon Hwan Ju, likely a beans person, has percolated a potent brew that utilizes coffee or tea dregs as the replacement ink for the printer. The result is the RITI inkbox, which probably is good for only sepia printouts, but is the kind of green tech we like very much. Coffee or tea dregs are placed into the cartridge, mixed with a little water. However, using this requires powering it along with a little muscle, moving the cartridge left and right in the slot while drawing on the paper. Not quite the most efficient workhorse for your home business, but at least it's the only aromatic printout you can personalize, from Lipton to Lavazza.