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Now if it cleaned the carpet while it was at it, it might just catch on...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28977840

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But what if it got Stuck?

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stuck wrote:Now if it cleaned the carpet while it was at it, it might just catch on...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28977840
If they made an outdoor version that also collected leaves, it could be a rake's progress.
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A lady really could be in the office waiting for her prints to come.

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I doubt many offices would have enough aisle room to enable it to proceed towards the printing perpetrator, turn round, and return to its default area.

Surely a "ceiling delivery system" would be better, where the printed sheets get taken up from the printer out-tray towards the ceiling, transported on little trolleys mounted to the ceiling, and then dropped onto the correct desk. That would quickly ensure that multi-sheet documents were always numbered!
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John Gray wrote:Surely a "ceiling delivery system" would be better, where the printed sheets get taken up from the printer out-tray ...
Yes and no. The system described requires the recipient to pass a security check before any documents are printed (at their desk/location), thereby eliminating the possibility of some unauthorised person getting a gander.

Apart from the hardware overhead ( :grin: ) of a "ceiling delivery system" to every possible location, a very tall person may be able to read the passing documents. (And a very short person could simply send up a goose.)

Anyway, whatever happened to going green, and paperless offices? Perhaps we just need robots that deliver a little USB stick with pdf copies of whatever on it.
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What a happy printer....always a smile on its face.
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Leif wrote:
John Gray wrote:Surely a "ceiling delivery system" would be better, where the printed sheets get taken up from the printer out-tray ...
Yes and no.
I agree that the system is not quite ready enough to be taken to the Dragons' Den ("More Research Needed..."), but we have had for at least a century a mechanism by which cylindrical plastic containers get whisked to all parts of a building through tubes in which a partial vacuum has been created. Possibly a bit expensive for a single room, and it would require a paper-handling device on the printer which rolled up the sheets of paper and inserted them into the container and...
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