…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
Size matters. Sometimes the smaller is the better, when it comes to space on your desktop. Taking up about the same area as a 15.4-inch notebook, the printer claims to be able to push out its first copy in under 8.5 seconds (from the PowerSave mode) with an average speed of 14 pages per minute.… Continue reading LaserJet P1005 – HP’s Smallest Printer
Hewlett-Packard is boosting its effort to effectively recycle used inkjet printer cartridges, Wednesday introducing a new process that manufactures new cartridges from recycled cartridges that are separated and rebuilt from scratch. The “closed loop” process gives used HP inkjet cartridges a sustainable end-of-life value and puts the material back to good use while being environmentally… Continue reading HP Finds Another Way to Recycle Old Printer Cartridges
The grim economic picture darkened further today with news that the price of ink for printer cartridges has reached an all time high of $1000 a barrel on the New York futures exchange. The world’s most traded commodity has seen a steady rise in price over recent months due to supply problems, increased demand from… Continue reading Printer Ink Tops $1000 A Barrel