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The biggest corporation in the printing industry HP is not snoozing and is expanding into other industries as well. The latest move by HP is to help the production of medication. Scientists will be able to take advantage of HP device that has been developing for 10 years to create medication. This is slightly different area than HP toner cartridges for HP printers, but the technology used will be very similar.

The device was developed using HP Officejet Pro X’s printhead, which accommodates over 42,000 nozzles. The main reason why the device is necessary is due to repetition and human error involved in medication production. It works by dropping droplets of chemicals into tiny sliding containers saving hours and hours of the painful process.

Joe Dody, Business manager of speciality Printing Systems for HP said:

“We imagined the application and we worked with customers to convince ourselves and the industry that we were creating value in doing it, so we gained support from HP to make a business out of it.”

“A researcher applies between 200,000 to a million drops of the compound to test against the disease target and they hope that 10,000 are actually hits. Then they can determine what’s common between molecules and what’s the dose at which these drug molecules are causing a positive interaction with disease.”

The HP device could potentially save up to 95% of work, billions of dollars and years of medication development processes. Printers are designed to spit out ink from printheads and HP’s Direct Digital Dispenser (D300) will do exactly that. Except instead of the ink, the D300 will be dropping desired substance drops, allowing the scientists to test many different substance variations saving time and increasing the chances of discovering even greater medication.

This is a perfect example of technology helping us to achieve more. It’s inspiring and equally surprising to see, that printer technology is helping and improving lives.

The machine took years to develop but it seems that it was worth it in the end.

Dody stated: “If you didn’t find a solution you would have to make a hard business decision or scrap the project. The stakes were high”

“The scale of our core printing business allows us to make a refined tool at a cost that is cheap. This is the first time the world has a reliable way to dispense at the picoliter level”

Mr Dody is saying they saw the need and gap in the industry for this type of machine. They did everything to create a device that would be profitable and valuable to medicine and printing industries alike.

The HP inkjet Officejet devices are magnificent and additionally knowing they’ll contribute to latest developments in medicine is simply brilliant. The HP inkjet printers together with Epson Workforce Pro printers have been hailed as laserjet killers.(Read more on HP Officejet inkjet to challenge laserjet printers).

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Author: Donatas Ivaskevicius