Printing Intelligence

Probably, you've never heard this concept. Actually, almost noone has ever heard. This is what at least our lecturer today claimed.

And this is what also proves the saying, "do not trust market reports completely".

The birth of the idea may be recognised as the result of ITC (Information technology and Communications) Development. At the late 80s paper machine producers suddenly found themselves in a deep crisis. Not many customers wanted to buy new paper machines.

At that time paper producers did not pay that much attention. But no more than in decade they experienced the same. We do not want to buy paper. Not anymore. why should anyone of us care about printing, ink, etc, when there are all those handy laptops, PCs almost everywhere in our life?

Is it the end? Or maybe the beginning?

There is no guarantee this concept will ever live. But it may also become the new reality.

Because for now almost the only most popular thing we do with paper is printing. (ok, there still exists origami and some prefer handwriting, but...) And then there is the packaging paper with which we usually wrap. Not too much. Especially, if we think that printing is merely the process of putting small ink dots on a piece of paper. And for the last several decades the single best invention in this spehere was putting coloured jots on the same piece of paper!

But what if we try to think out of the box?! What other uses of printing may be? What else can we do besides printing dots?

Impressed is not the world that can describe my today's öecture. Much more. You see the history in making. Even before it has been really made.

RFID printed on paper: huge environmental savings, extremely low costs; new modes of putting holohrams: again huge savings and you can even save ink. Paper packages able to detect the freshness of food inside. Paper prushes detecting whether the furniture (in restaurant or hospital, for instance) satisfies sanitary standards. Printed lamps, printed detecting devices, bio-degradable batteries. Paper able to transmit info to your mobile phones. Medical tests.

And that is just to mention few...
Still impressed :)
And thank you VTT!