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Zuta printer: truly portable & prints on any size paper

Computing has become mobile. As mobile as you want. Smartphone, tablet, laptop. Almost any screen size between 2.8 & 20 inches. This web page has been created, almost exclusively, on mobile devices. Currently, an 8 inch tablet.

Printers, on the other hand have been much less successful in the mobile sphere. Generally they are not actually very portable, & create restrictions on paper size. Paper size restrictions are greatest in the most portable devices.

Zuta took a different view: a printer is a print head in a box, along with the mechanics & electronics to move the print head & paper around. Why not get rid of the box & the bits to move the paper, attach the remaining mechanics & electronics directly to the print head, & print on a stationary sheet of paper?

Result: a smaller printer with the potential to print on any size of paper.

Connects via a Bluetooth interface with Android, IOS, Linux, OSX & Windows.

Zuta printer is a Kickstarter project:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1686304142/the-mini-mobile-robotic-printer

http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/10/zuta-labs-pocket-printer/

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