This Cybook offers an inbuilt High Speed Ink System to process any action at a fast pace.

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To make the text larger than 10-point font requires zooming in on the document and dragging it around with the iRex's stylus, a naggingly slow process given E-Ink's refresh rate of about one second. iRex claims it redraws its screen faster than Kindle, but in Forbes.com's tests it locked up sporadically and often took far longer to refresh than Amazon's less flashy display.

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Wilcox laid off half of the company's senior-level employees and promoted middle managers with a strong grasp of E Ink's technology and the manufacturing process.

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So far no bill has bounced between the Houses more than 15 times, but one constraint on the process might be finding a different ink to signify the exchange of amendments.

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Designed for rough concepting and creative brainstorming, Inkling bridges the gap between paper sketching and digital drawing by giving users at the front end of the creative process a way to rough-out ideas with real ink on paper and capture their concepts digitally so that they can be later refined on their computer.

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The new manufacturing process allows HP to fit 3, 900 or more microscopic ink nozzles on a single print head, compared to 1, 266 nozzles on past designs.

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Computers can nearly recreate a letterpress look by putting filters over type, but they can't reproduce the irregular look that comes from ink buildup on the type and the varying pressures applied during the printing process.

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