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Originally Posted by danskmacabre
Assuming you just use 1 machine. And that was just a wild guess. it says it can handle 100 page a minute.. add a couple of minutes for binding and it could probably produce a 300 page novel in 5 minutes.
But I expect you didn't look that closely before you smacked your head.
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Actually I spent a considerable amount of time a year or two back when this was going to be "the next great thing" and the specs looked great but the practice didn't match (and that includes the espresso one commented on below)... you should know what assuming does...
It's a point of note that the majority, of the (nearly 60) worldwide installation of espressos, are in Universities where the longer term survival of a book is not so relevant as just surviving the length of the course... the first one installed in London was given great publicity amid a fanfare of PR etc... and then the demonstration to the media managed to produce a wonderful book where the pages promptly fell out...
Oh yes, the only place with more than ONE machine, is the Library of Alexandria so time is relevant and claimed times can be very variable but it still exceeds 5 minutes although when you're actually watching (at least the first time) it seems fairly short... and the head bang was to attract you're attentiion (just like Gibbs)...
It's another technology on the cusp of becoming really viable but not quite there for general usage...