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ebookie · 10-21-2007, 12:49 AM

So it would be interesting to have an e-reader which was effectively a printer when associated with a server. You could "print" to it and use the front/back controls as feedback on which page of output to display. That would leave the intelligence in the PC and the display could be made cheaply. However having looked around inside my e-book a bit, its clear the most expensive thing in there is the display! So throwing an xScale CPU running linux in with it is almost free anyway.

--Chuck

(the HP test BTW was HP's lowest end inkjet printers were basically driven off the parallel port and had no intelligence at all inside of them. The idea was that HP gave away the 'rendering mechanism' and then made money on ink. When people wanted to run those printers on Linux boxes or network print servers they came to realize just how much of the "print" part of the "printer" was actually software in the driver!)

10-21-2007, 12:49 AM	#20
ebookie Entrepreneur Posts: 36 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: California Device: Iliad v2	Doesn't pass the HP test though ... So it would be interesting to have an e-reader which was effectively a printer when associated with a server. You could "print" to it and use the front/back controls as feedback on which page of output to display. That would leave the intelligence in the PC and the display could be made cheaply. However having looked around inside my e-book a bit, its clear the most expensive thing in there is the display! So throwing an xScale CPU running linux in with it is almost free anyway. --Chuck (the HP test BTW was HP's lowest end inkjet printers were basically driven off the parallel port and had no intelligence at all inside of them. The idea was that HP gave away the 'rendering mechanism' and then made money on ink. When people wanted to run those printers on Linux boxes or network print servers they came to realize just how much of the "print" part of the "printer" was actually software in the driver!)