Isn’t technology amazing!! The things that we can do today that if we look back thousands of years ago, we cannot even imagine that these things will be possible. People will laugh at us or call us mental if we told them that there will be a mobile device that we can talk through it to someone who is 100 miles away and they can hear and communicate back to us (mobile phone). They would think that we are crazy as they can’t imagine such a device will exist. But for this generation we take things for granted and believe that these technologies ‘always existed’ as we cannot imagine without it. So when new technologies come out, people aren’t as such surprised today as how people might be if they found a mobile phone like in the early 90s. We have progressed so much, and there are more new innovations coming out in the near future. Here we have put together a list of concept printing technologies that we would like to see come out in the near future.

Pencil Printer

A printer can be improved several ways by changing its size and making it more compact, less noisy, and portable. Check out this environmentally friendly printer by Hoyoung Lee, Seunghwa Jeong and Jin-young Yoon called the Pencil Printer. This printer uses black pencil lead instead of toners to print out on to the paper. As pencil lead is used the benefit of it is that you can correct mistakes by rubbing them out, therefore the paper is recyclable.

Laptop Printer

Wouldn’t you love to have a mobile printer that you can take with you anywhere with your laptop. Simply connect this Trak printer (designed by Hung Chih Wang) to the USB slot of your laptop and attach it to the back of your laptop and print your documents out. The portable printer is detachable and acts as the perfect accessory for your laptop, as it is ideal for printing quick print jobs on the go.

Food Printer

The food printer is essentially a 3d printer that prints out food by mixing the stored ingredients together. For those that might not be a great cook, and wants to rustle up a quick meal with your favourite ingredients, let the food printer mix, heat and serve your food on the plate.

Stick POP printer

Everyone appreciates gadgets, and this is one gadget that will make people want one as they can easily put it in their pocket and carry it around. This very small printer can connect to USB port slots and is able to print out paper in small quantity. It looks like one of them small label laminators that you may have one in your office. The Stick POP Printer is very cool for fashionable people.

Instant Cartridge Printer

Remember those days of buying disposable cameras? This instant cartridge printer takes its inspirations from disposable cameras. Instead of buying a printer, why not buy the different type of cartridges and literally print from it. For example if you want to print 800 pages in black and white, then buy an instant mono cartridge printer, use up all the 800 pages capacity and then once depleted throw it away and buy another instant cartridge whenever you need to print.

Roller Paper Printer

Although it looks like a roll of toilet paper, it isn’t! With this roller paper printer you can continue printing as much information as you need, then use the cutter to cut the paper when you want to, therefore reducing paper wastage as you won’t be throwing away blank spaces (unprinted paper).