Newswise — Major innovations in printing don't come around very often. The last one was the inkjet printer, in 1976. And now there's Zink, a full-color printing technology that does away with a messy, expensive annoyance that consumers have learned to hate: ink.
The story of Zink is not just one of a unique technology. It's about engineers and scientists pursuing a dream deep within a corporate research laboratory, long after most companies came to view research as a luxury they could do without. It's a story of how those researchers stayed true to their dream, even as the venerable corporation whose 70-year-old brick walls sheltered them drifted into bankruptcy. The story also has a Madoff-like Ponzi scheme that sent key investors to prison. It truly is a modern fairy tale.
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