At an event on March 10, 2008 in Tel Aviv, Hewlett-Packard offered a peek into future printing technologies, introducing a new inkjet printer that prints thousands of pages per minute and ink that retains its shine even when exposed to extreme elements. HP’s water-based Latex Ink is specially formulated to embed in a surface and… Continue reading HP’s Future Printing Technologies
One of the exhibits on CeBIT 2008 was Samsung’s new color laser. The company claims the Samsung CLP-310 to be the world’s smallest color laser printer. Apart from size, the CLP-310 stands out with its quietness – the company promises an ultra-low noise level of 46dB. The printer come cased in both traditional grey and… Continue reading World’s Smallest Color Laser Printer: Samsung CLP-310
To continue the subject of connecting a printer to several computers, it’s worth to notice there may be another type of connection – wireless. Let’s suppose you have a wireless network running in your home or office and you need to get a new printer up and running. One way to do so is to… Continue reading Connecting A Printer to A Wireless Computer Network
…an attendee approached me with a question I’ve been asked a hundred times before. “Are these water-based inks or pigment inks?” I gave my usual response, “Well, both—actually,” then launched into an explanation about ink formulation theory, the history of inkjet printing, and the correct application for ink types. He proceeded to tell me I… Continue reading How Dye-based Inks Are Different from Pigment Inks
DYMO is a company selling embossers, hand-held label makers, desktop label makers and other stuff that helps people organize and identify their home, office or worksite. What is interesting for us is that DYMO connects to the printing world via its newly announced DiscPainter. You may rest assured that this compact disc printer is “optimized… Continue reading DYMO DiskPainter Spins And Paints
Many people now have two or more computers at home and you maybe one of those. As many other people, you have only one printer, but you’re not the only one who wants to use it. What you may do in this situation? One solution is to visit a local computer store and buy another… Continue reading Connecting a Printer to Several Computers
What kind of printer to select for you office depends of how big that office is and here is why. The size of the office demands same volumes of printing: two-person business hardly prints 500 pages a month, while a corporation that occupies a whole building may produce thousands pages a week. So, the first… Continue reading How to Choose A Printer for Your Office
Epson has announced an extreme solution to the problem of users who print sensitive documents to network queues but then forget to pick them up — a printer that requires a smartcard before it will print. Documents to be printed using the EpsonNet Authentication Print system are first stored on a server much as they… Continue reading Epson Adds Security to Laser Printers
Xerox has increased the size of its portfolio of wide-format printers with the release of the Xerox 7142 color wide-format printer that delivers high-speed and cost-effective printing, and the 6050A wide-format black-and-white printer for producing construction plans and engineering renderings. Specifically designed for the computer-aided design (CAD) and geographic information systems (GIS) markets, the Xerox… Continue reading Xerox 7142 Wide-format Printer
Don’t take it directly, it’s merely a figure of speech. Nonetheless, Ford is indeed an unexpected name to hear in printer news, isn’t it? What the company actually did was adding some functionallity to some of its cars. This high-tech add-on to its F-Series pickup trucks designed to help construction workers and other contractors manage… Continue reading Ford Puts Printer On Wheels