HP Allows Publishers to Customize Content

by Stan Retner

11/11/2008

Hewlett-Packard has designed a digital Inkjet Web Press especially for newspapers, book publishers and commercial print shops.

The printer costs $2.5 million and for the price it can print full-color, newspaper-sized pages. The goal of HP was to drive down the cost of small-volume printing by enabling the publishers to customize their content to specific audiences.

For instance, a book publisher could use the digital press to print small volumes of currently out-of-print books. Commercial printers can print personalized ads on bank statements, telephone bills and other transactional documents.

Newspapers would be able to print different editions with targeted advertising. HP believes there is huge potential for individualized newspapers. And while it is hard to beat the low cost of analog presses, however HP is stressing the importance of the flexibility of the Web Press to personalize content.

No newspapers have ordered the press as of yet, however one US paper will be testing it and will produce fourteen different versions of their paper each day with the new printer.

One printer can be used for a variety of things, publishers from books to newspapers to magazines could team up to share printers in order to further cut costs, so perhaps it is the start of a solution for the future of print.

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HP Inkjet Technology Delivers Dialysis

by Stan Retner

10/22/2008

Home Dialysis Plus is now licensed to use HP’s inkjet technology to mix water and concentrated dialysate, a mixture of chemicals used to extract toxins and supply electrolytes to the bloodstream. The water and dialysate will be mixed in real-time, then pumped into the dialyser.

According to an HP statement, mixing the solution in real-time “helps filter toxins over a longer period”, and HP’s smart memory-chip technology “will ensure that the correct dialysate prescription is being delivered consistently so dialysis can take place while the patient is sleeping”.

Michael Baker, chief executive of Home Dialysis Plus, said in the statement that the machine would be a “true breakthrough”, and HP’s technology was “critical to creating a unique patient experience that will offer ease of use, improved patient outcomes and life expectancy”.

The deal between the two companies came out of HP’s intellectual-property licensing programme, and HD+ expects to get its machine onto the market by the end of 2010.

“HP has many technologies available for licensing that lend themselves well to the health and life-sciences industry, and we will continue to look for opportunities within a variety of markets so that consumers can further benefit from HP inventions,” said Kevin Light, HP’s vice president of intellectual property and licensing, in the statement.

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HP Photosmart D5460 Inkjet Printer

by alxf1

10/9/2008

HP’s Photosmart D5460 inkjet printer is a bargain that you can brag about. Though it’s a bare-bones printer in most respects, it has a few standout features that any photo enthusiast would love to have.

In our laboratory tests, the Photosmart D5460 pushed paper quickly, managing a swift 11.4 pages per minute when printing text-only pages and 3.4 ppm when printing graphics. The main input tray holds just 125 sheets (lower than average), however, and it doesn’t accept legal-size media.

Among the printer’s positives are a dedicated 20-sheet photo-paper tray, which handles paper sizes of up to 5 inches by 7 inches, and an integrated input tray and caddy for specially coated CD or DVD media. The CD/DVD input tray nests within the printer’s front bay and pulls down easily for use. The caddy (conveniently stored beneath the main input tray) is bendy, but it makes feeding optical media into the printer fairly straightforward.

The Photosmart D5460 has one other interesting feature: an extra, pigment-based black ink for printing text, supplementing HP’s usual, dye-based black, cyan, magenta, and yellow inks for graphics. We liked the blackness of the text we printed on plain paper, though we noticed a little feathering around the characters. Photos printed on HP’s own paper looked natural (aside from a slight orange cast to flesh tones) and showed sharp detail even in dark or muted areas.

The inks are impressively economical, too. The Photosmart D5460 ships with regular-size (130- to 300-page) cartridges for all five inks, butHP sells high-capacity versions of all colors. The regular-size cyan cartridge, for instance, costs $10 and lasts about 300 pages (per HP), which works out to an affordable 3.3 cents per page. The 750-page (by HP’s estimate) cyan cartridge costs $15–or just 2 cents per page.

The printer’s control panel is simple, with an angled, 1.5-inch color LCD and only four buttons. When you insert a media card into one of the front slots, you can use the LCD display to scroll through your photographs and select one or more for printing.
The Photosmart D5460 starts out as a basic machine, but it provides more options and higher-quality output than you’d expect for the price. If you’re concerned about the high cost of photo printing, this economically designed model may provide the answer you’ve been looking for.

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HP Launches Photosmart B8550 Photo Printer

by Stan Retner

09/30/2008

HP Photosmart B8550 Photo Printer HP has introduced the Photosmart B8550 Photo Printer. The new printer s a complete home printing solution that is perfect for producing large-format prints while still maintaining the versatility of an everyday home printer.

Actually, users can print anything from 4 x 6-inches to 13 x 19-inches directly from digital cameras, memory cards and a PC or Mac.

The printer uses a 5-ink Vivera printing system for laser-quality pigment ink black text, and is able to print 31 color pages per minute - you’ll get an extra two if you’re printing in black and white.

The B8550 is an environmentally conscientious printer. Its dual-drop-volume print head is made from 55% recycled plastic, derived from the recycled material from Original HP ink cartridges and other sources such as plastic water bottles.

Other features of the printer include a 2.4-inch colour display for easy viewing and editing of photos before printing, and the inclusion of the HP Auto Sense technology which helps avoid common photo printing mistakes by warning you of any potential problems beforehand.

Estimated US street price of $299.99.

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HP LaserJet P3005x Laser PRinter Review

by Stan Retner

09/22/2008

HP LaserJet P3005x laser printer

“A reasonable compromise between quality and functionality”, that’s what James Hutchinson from PC World Australia called HP LaserJet P3005x color laser printer.

According to James, the P3005x makes an imposing printer both literally and metaphorically. The printer stands 474 mm tall with the third paper cassette attached. It supports USB and Ethernet connection and an embedded Web server for remote administration. The HP LaserJet P3005x has 80 MB of memory onboard that can be upgraded to a maximum of 320 MB. Automatic duplex is standard on this printer. For the environmentally conscious business, the P3005x is Energy Star certified.

Like all high-end laser printers, HP’s P3005x is a durable workhorse. The monthly duty cycle of this printer estimates dramatic 100,000 pages. The printer is quite efficient in terms of consumables: 6500 pages from a regular yield toner cartridge and 13,000 from a high capacity toner cartridge. Using a high yield toner you can get a cost per page of 2.8 cents.

The P3005x can also bolster its speed, another area in which it shows good results. The printer has four quality settings, ranging from 600 dpi draft mode to 1200 dpi with 170 lines per pinch (LPI). Regardless of the quality setting the P3005x achieves speeds of 35 pages per minute, with the first page out in 12 seconds, which is decent for rapid high quality printing.

Altogether with automatic two-side printing, expanded paper capacity and an Energy Star certification, the HP LaserJet P3005x proves a reasonable compromise between quality and functionality.

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