Eco-friendly RITI Printer prints with coffee and tea – Green Gadgets Design Competition

For all those folks who are constantly hitting the ctrl P to keep printing their work docs via ink-based printers, here is a green alternative. Though still a concept, Korean designer Joen Hwan Ju’s RITI Printer is designed to feed on used coffee ground or tea dregs to imprint the pages. So every time the user sips on his/her cuppa coffee or tea, the residue has to be fed to this eco-friendly printer. Place it in the ink case on the top and insert the paper in the center. Then manually moving the case in both directions, left and right, will render images or text on the paper. Eliminating the need of chemical based inks and grid-connectivity, this herbal-ink based printer will also keep the docs smelling good with coffee or tea aroma. Now that sounds…..or rather smell good!

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