Im interested on your printing pain points? care to share?
I have been designing printers for 10 years now, I started from consumer printers and now moving to business ‘big’ printers.
We closed down our consumer printers because its not working well with our business strategy. And the smart phones and digital age has got to do a lot on that.
There are a lot of factors on creating a printer…cost is the #1 factor. So, even if how good your idea, but the cost of manufacturing is very expensive… it will just be turned down. Unless your company is willing to really gamble on the red sea of printers.
You can check some of the concept/production printers in the net.
http://www.artefactgroup.com/content/work/swyp/
http://littleprinter.com/