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… Continue reading HP Launches Photosmart B8550 Photo Printer
Somehow this news has been escaping both my sight and my site. Anyway, I’m catching up telling it to you. Judging by that picture can you say how big the printer is? Or the right, there seems to be a 15-17-inch LCD (that’s the right size for printer displays, not those pathetic 2.5 inches!), so… Continue reading HP Scitex TJ8300: Mammoth Printer
In several Asian countries, HP released a new multifunction printer, Photosmart C8180. While printing on CD or DVD is not something astonishing in modern MFP, ability to actually write, or record disks is only embodied in this new device. Photosmart C8180 in an inkjet printer capable of copying and faxing. The printing speeds of the reach 33… Continue reading HP Photosmart C8180: A Printer That Writes
New cost-of-ink-per-page analysis of ink cartridges is a new way for customers to estimate their printing costs. QualityLogic, a company providing quality assurance and control services, reported it had completed Cost-of-Ink-Per-Page (CoIPP) Analysis for the Eastman Kodak Company. CoIPP Analysis uses cartridge cost and page-yield to calculate and compare the cost of ink required to… Continue reading Results of “Cost-of-Ink-Per-Page” Analysis Favor Kodak Inks
HP claimed it’s giving up its camera manufacturing business. Instead the company plans to focus more resources on Print 2.0 – the new web-centered printing concept. However, the company is going to maintain the brand and now is looking for an OEM partner that will design, build and distribute digital cameras under HP label. HP… Continue reading Printing Industry Overview
Once upon a time, printers were printing devices no different from a typewriter in terms of security. As years lapsed, time printers have become more sophisticated, network-enabled devices with hard drives and even operating systems. Pretty much like personal computer. And people keep on taking printers for what they actually are – devices that produce… Continue reading HP Technology Secures Printing
Today we take the laser printer as an integral part of everyday life in office environment. However 30 years ago when it first appeared, this piece of machinery was quite a curio. When a document is sent to the printer, a laser beam “draws” the document on a drum using electrical charges. After the drum… Continue reading How Laser Printers First Appeared and Developed
One day we are going to sink in the ocean of printer-produced pages, or, rather say, be buried under mountains of such pages. And Britain would to take the impact in the first place. In 1975, Business Week magazine predicted a paperless office. Recent studies show this proves to be an exaggerated prediction. The number… Continue reading Printing Industry Overview
The continuation and, obviously, the end of the story with HP false advertisement. In the advertisement of LaserJet CP3505, HP claimed the printer “only require replacement toner throughout its life. And nothing else”. This gave Kyocera grounds to bury HP to Advertising Standards Agency, which found that the claims were untrue, because each toner cartridge… Continue reading HP Admits Wrongful Advertisement
Here is another example of expanding application of inkjet technology. Last week Hewlett Packard announced that it had used its ink-jet printer cartridge technology to create a patch that releases drugs through the skin in a controlled and painless way. The company said it has entered into a licensing agreement with Crospon, an Irish medical… Continue reading HP Inkjet Technology Delivers Drugs