Samsung Electronics announced the launch of ML-4510/501X series printers expanding line of printing solutions for the B2B sector. The new models are designed for small and medium-sized businesses, these are monochrome laser printers. The printing speed of Samsung ML-4510ND is 43 A4 pages per minute, while the ML-5010ND and 5015ND models produce up to 48 pages per minute. First page out time is 7.5 seconds in ready mode and 16 seconds from standby mode.

The new printers are equipped with 600 MHz dual-core processor and have 1 Gbps network adapter. The dual-core processor also manages the printing preparations and simultaneous printing of various tasks, so the company believes that the devices are suitable for workgroups of 10-20 people. With two 100-sheet paper trays, total input capacity of Samsung ML-4510/501X series increased up to 620 sheets.

In printers of Samsung ML-4510/501X series, the drum needs to be replaced after printing 60,000 pages, and high capacity toner cartridge, Samsung ML-501,X allows you to print up to 20 000 pages. To save toner, you can select ECO mode, which automatically enables duplex printing and skips blank pages. Samsung ML-4510/501X series printers produce noise level of less than 54 dBA and are operated using a 4.3-inch LCD touch screen (the ML-4510ND and ML-5010ND also have a numeric keypad). In addition, the USB port in the models Samsung ML-5010ND/5015ND makes it possible to print from a flash drive.

How do you like the idea of moving the wall, an integral part of today’s social networks, to the real world? Liat Segal is obviously a fan of social networking who wants to leave messages for friends not only on the virtual wall, but also on quite tangible one. To do so, Liat invented Cellular Wall Printer, a device resembling good old impact printers.

The device is a combination of an Android-smartphone and servo motors, the latter control the movement of each of the seven markers. An “adapter” between the phone and motors is the IOIO programmable board. The Cellular Wall Printer receives messages on a smartphone (SMS, Twitter or Facebook), which it prints on any wall (or surface, for that matter).

The inventor claims that the device copes with printing well even when the printer operator moves. You can get the whole idea by watching this video:

Xerox Corporation introduced new color printers, Phaser 6000 and Phaser 6010. According to the manufacturer, these are the most compact and fast devices today for personal users and small workgroups of 2-5 people in companies SOHO and SMB markets.

Printing speed of Phaser 6000/6010 amounts to 10 and 12 color pages per minute, respectively, and the first page out time is just 17 seconds. The maximum monthly printing volume of 30,000 is the evidence of high reliability devices. The Phaser 6010 is different from the Phaser 6000 by availability of network connection, multi-purpose tray and enhanced intuitive control panel. Xerox Phaser 6000/6010 ensure accurate reproduction of the original color and form up to 16 colors in each pixel. The resulting images have a resolution of 600×600 dpi.

The printers implement HiQ LED printing technology developed by Xerox and Nippon Electric Glass Co Ltd. Printheads are made of bars containing 14,592 LEDs, and are controlled by a special chip controlling the regularity of the lamps light. New technology ensures a uniform fill, clean lines and solves the problem of “jagged” contours. Another guarantee of flawless reproduction of details is an artificially farmed Xerox EA Eco toner. The toner is produced by using a chemical process of “growing” particles, rather than traditional mechanical grinding, thus ensuring accurate reproduction of fine color details and give images a glossy look. In addition, the new printers Phaser 6000/6010 first use a technology that previously used only in professional machines: the devices have temperature and humidity sensors, which allows for the automatic fine-tune the settings of printing.

From the very moment it came to life, Kinect has become more than just an innovative game controller (like it was not enough!). There has been many unconventional ways make use of this Microsoft device, but it has never been used to create physical objects.

Using Kinect camera to capture images of conference attendees at TEI 2011, a team of engineers has applied the data to print the figures on the three-dimensional printers. The Fabricate Yourself Initiative is part of the Interactive Fabrication founded by a researcher Karl D.D. Willis).

The system demonstrated at the conference, consists of a Mac and a connected Kinect controller. The camera gets three-dimensional images of people standing in front of it, and then sends them to a computer as STL-files. Before the image is printed with Dimension uPrint, a 3D-model obtains connecting faces (like a puzzle piece) using which printed figures can be combined into a large “wall”.

They’ve made it very interesting. Imagine that in the next few years the streets become full of instant photo booths, where you can instantly get a 3D-figurine of you. Unfortunately, so far the printing speed of 3D-printers leaves a lot to be desired, as well as the cost of such a hardware, but progress does not stand still.