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Old 28-November-2006, 06:27 AM
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JUST WHEN it seemed that the paperless office was a possibility, An Indian designer has worked out a way to stick more than 256GB of data storage on an A4 piece of paper.
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That's pretty awesome. If they could make it affordable, you'd have some pretty high-density storage that anyone can use. All you'd need is a printer for it, and the scanner to read it. It'd be a good way to send huge chunks of data back and forth. Imagine having a high-tech fax machine that can send a near-perfect copy to another place within moments, and then the receiver could scan it into their machine or server and run a diagnostic to make sure the data was copied correctly. Now that's fast.
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looking more like a hoax.

http://www.techworld.com/storage/new...fm?newsid=7432
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That's pretty awesome. If they could make it affordable, you'd have some pretty high-density storage that anyone can use. All you'd need is a printer for it, and the scanner to read it. It'd be a good way to send huge chunks of data back and forth. Imagine having a high-tech fax machine that can send a near-perfect copy to another place within moments, and then the receiver could scan it into their machine or server and run a diagnostic to make sure the data was copied correctly. Now that's fast.
Huh? I'm hoping you are being sarcastic.

If I could take the time to print-scan-send, then why not just email?
I see absolutely no advantage to this. Paper is highly susceptible to damage (or relatively so compared to other storage mediums).

Besides; I was just reading an article (hardcopy, no link) about someone (IBM?) developing a process for microprinting that can give a legible 1/100 inch high print. So if that is so difficult, imagine this "rainbow" thing.

I vote hoax.
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More wishful thinking than anything. But yeah, after reading the second article, it's looking pretty doubtful.
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400 A4 pages on a 2"square paper?
Sounds like microfilm.
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I vote hoax.
How many dots would it take to encode 256GB of information?
How many dots can the print head place each millisecond?
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More wishful thinking than anything. But yeah, after reading the second article, it's looking pretty doubtful.
The fact that he has "shown" a 2x2 example moves it from the theoretical into the hoax catagory.
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How many dots would it take to encode 256GB of information?
At 256 distinct colors per dot? I would say 256 Billion.

2.7GB/sqi ? Works out to about 52k dpi. (again, 8 bit color).
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I smell a red herring, AKA, fisch.

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