Kyocera, a Japanese printer manufacturer, has filed an official complaint with Advertising Standards Authority in the US blaming recent HP advertisement of being “disingenuous”. The ad for HP Color LaserJet CP3505 claims that HP laser toner cartridge is the only part of printer needing replacement. Generally, laser printers require a printing drum to be regularly… Continue reading Kyocera Claims HP’s Advertisement False
If you place Canon SELPHY CP-740 on it and you can do it fast. The new compact photo printer makes a 4×6-inche picture that Canon claims to last al least 100 years within just a minute! The printer supports direct printing from digital cameras as well as most popular flash card slots. Besides, the printer… Continue reading You Can Print Photos Using Your Palm
This post may be interesting to you if you own a Canon or Epson inkjet printer and still can’t decide whether to use genuine of compatible inks to print your photos. This post will, probably, make you feel disappointed if own a Canon or Epson inkjet printer and chose compatible inks to capture the moments… Continue reading Genuine Inks Last Longer
Not so long ago, in December 2006, International Standardization Organization finally gave us, customers, a single standard to estimate cartridge performance and thus the printing costs. Before that, printer manufacturers used various ways to determine how many pages a cartridge would print. It was merely impossible to calculate true sum money spent on cartridges during… Continue reading ISO Ink Cartridge Standard Has Flaws, HP claims
Long time ago printer makers armed with Gillette business model, charging small upfront price for an inkjet printer, but making up the money on selling that printer cartridges. In some cases, a set of cartridges could cost as much as the printer itself. So printer makers would live happily ever after, if it were not… Continue reading Printer Cartridges To Get Encrypted
Laser printing technology has long been a choice for medium and enterprise sized businesses, and that has been reasonable choice. Printing machines utilizing laser delivered high quality output at, which is crucial for larger businesses, high speed. Enter any corporate or government office to see those buzzing cubes of plastic cover and electronic inside –… Continue reading Laser Printers Are Doomed To Extinction?
Canon Pixma MP530 is another ‘omnipotent’ device combining functions of printer, copier, scanner and fax. Just like most printers of this class, Pixma MP530 is designed to satisfy the need of home users or small office. However, there are, or I’d rather say, there are not, a couple of things that an office user might… Continue reading Canon Pixma MP530
Studies, researches and surveys… how little we would knew without them. Another test of ink cartridges efficiency was commissioned by TÜV Rheinland for Epson. The idea of the test was to find out how much ink is actually wasted every time a cartridge is thrown away. The thing is, many inkjet printer and multifunctions use… Continue reading People Throw More Than 50% of Ink Away, Epson says
London National Gallery exhibited life-size reproductions of Constable and Da Vinci on the streets of the city. The task of paintings reproduction was performed by Electronic Printing Services in Leeds. They say they were looking for a printing device that would make billions of pixel at high resolution. Steve Farley, Managing Director at Electronic Printing… Continue reading HP Brings Masterpieces to The Streets
Konica Minolta introduces bizhub C451, a next model in a series of next-generation bizhub products. This multifunction machine combines printer, copier, fax, and scanner, and provides a networked solution for high-end office workgroups and applications. Bizhub C451 features such Konica Minolta’s technologies as Emperon Print Controller, Simitri HD (High Definition) Color Polymerized Toner, and Biometric… Continue reading Konica Minolta bizhub C451