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READING for January 21, 2011

  • Book made using 4 daisy-chained printers spanning 100 years' worth of technology

    Xavier Antin's installation piece "Just in Time" uses four devices spanning 100 years of desktop printing to generate a rather lovely book; each printer's output is the input for the next one down the line.

    A book printed through a printing chain made of four desktop printers using four different colors and technologies dated from 1880 to 1976. A production process that brings together small scale and large scale production, two sides of the same history.

    * MAGENTA (Stencil duplicator, 1880)
    * CYAN (Spirit duplicator, 1923)
    * BLACK (Laser printer, 1969)
    * YELLOW (Inkjet printer, 1976)

    Just in Time, or A Short History of Production

    (via Neatorama)


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