Hubert Pédurand, the inventor of the Gutenberg One robot capable of making a book from scratch in a few minutes, is asking for help. Gutenberg One, "the smallest book and newspaper printing company in the world" with its 2.4 m 2 to produce from 1 to 200 books, is an innovation protected by a patent registered by Neomedias created by Hubert Pédurand.
The company has been in safeguard since July and the liquidation of Neomedias could lead to the leakage of the patent abroad. A group of investors would buy the company and its invention. "We really need you before November 25, 2022." hubert Pédurand says and continues: "We are not going to leave this streaming book market to the Americans or the Chinese!
At the beginning of 2020, Hubert Pédurand announced his ambition to deploy 1,000 robots within 10 years and to generate 3,000 jobs in France. A first success came quickly. In June 2021, Éditions L'Harmattan, in collaboration with Gutenberg & Co, opened the first .one bookstore equipped with a robot printer in Paris. This is the first step towards a national deployment in bookstores, libraries and media libraries.
"Our printing branch in France can get into startup mode and create its own 3D printer factory by creating the world's first network of printed books and presses in streaming like Netflix does for VOD." assures the company manager.
Hubert Pédurand is determined not to give up. He has a little more than two weeks left to create a collective of investors and save Gutenberg One, because for the printer quoting Gérard d'Aboville "the worst defeat is to have refused the fight".
