Everything You Need to Know to Evaluate Printer Speed As we recently reported, the best way to judge a printer’s processor performance is to look at its print speeds (pages or images per minute). Like most things in life that’s easier said than done because if you’re shopping among different brands you need to make sure you’re comparing apples to apples
PrinTip: Printing With an Empty Color Cartridge Can Damage Your Printer If you think your color inkjet printer should print in black when a color cartridge is empty, you’re not alone. It’s reasonable to think your color printer can act like a monochrome printer when a color cartridge is empty, but you still have plenty of black ink. After all, your car still runs when you’re out of windshield fluid.
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Why Shouldn’t I Print in Black When a Color Cartridge Is Empty?
Tired of missing those once-in-a-lifetime photos that get captured on video but not in a photo? Don’t worry, Canon has got you covered. Its line of five new Canon Pixma Printers includes a new “Full High Definition (HD) Movie Print” feature
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At 123InkCartridges we offer one of the cheapest Hp 78 Color cartridge on the market. Since the HP 78 Color cartridge is so widely used in a variety of HP printers finding the cheapest price it much more important for that cartridge compared to others. At a price of 19.99 there no need to search anywhere for your HP 78 Color cartridge needs.
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Printer News: Canon PIXMA MX870 Prints and Scans Wirelessly Canon has successfully catered to the home office for years with its PIXMA line of printers. The new PIXMA MX870 continues Canon’s trend of iterative refinement
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Canon PIXMA MX870 Designed to Appeal to Home Offices
Recently I was asked to address the request by a prepress department in a printing company to be put on a separate network and not part of the overall company computer network. This question has been debated ever since desktop computing combined with PostScript Imagesetters
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Separate Prepress Network or One Network
Here’s a new way to recycle those old printers that you or your company don’t need anymore: Give them to someone who does. Northrop Grumman, a global giant in the security business, has done just that. According to a Northrop press release , the company decided to donate more than 300 surplus network and desktop printers to the Chicago School District.
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Northrop Grumman Donates Surplus Printers to Chicago Schools
One day medicine will no longer need the services of donors. So say scientists working on a system that allows you to “print” (or create or grow) organs and tissues using special printers. A prototype of one of such devices, 3-D Bioplotter, was recently presented at Rapid 2010, in Anaheim, California
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3-D Bioplotter: A Printer Instead Of A Donor
Auckland-based Soar Printing claims to have become the first carbon-neutral certified corporate printer in New Zealand after getting the seal of approval from Landcare Research. Soar had to demonstrate its plans to reduce emissions, set reduction targets, offset emissions it couldn’t eliminate and get independent auditing.
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Auckland Company Becomes First Carbon-neutral Corporate Printer
HL-4040CDN Color Laser Printer with Duplex and Networking The HL-4040CDN produces brilliant color output for all your business documents at up to 21 pages per minute in either color or monochrome . Delivering outstanding output quality at up ..
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DoubleSided: HP’s ePrint Technology Bypasses Drivers With Email; Google Also Has a Plan John Gage is credited with coining the phrase “the network is the computer” when he worked for Sun Microsystems well before the Internet became commonplace. If the statement wasn’t true then, it certainly is now as we all benefit from so-called cloud-based services ranging from online banking to word processing. As we move to the cloud and go mobile with smartphones, what happens to the printer
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Smartphone Owners Rejoice: HP and Google Introduce Cloud Printing
Hard times are coming to those who like to abuse copy machines, soon they’ll have to look for workaround. And all because Canon Japan together with Hitachi introduces a new security system for office printers based on biometric human parameters.
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Canon to Sell Printers with Biometric Protection
Printer News: HP Officejet 4500 Offers Affordable, High-Resolution Color Prints Via WiFi The HP Officejet 4500 All-in-One inkjet printer offers WiFi networking and prints color images at 4800 x 1200 dots per inch at up to 22 pages per minute. It prints in monochrome at 600 x 600 dpi at up to 28 pages per minute.
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HP Officejet 4500 All-in-One Printer Aims for Light Users
Energy Star Labels on Printers Save You Money and Help Protect the Environment Printers, like refrigerators, can qualify for an Energy Star label: a government-backed symbol that means the product will save you money and help the environment by reducing energy use. Printers earn the Energy Star label by meeting product specifications published by the Environmental Protection Agency ( Energy Star Program Requirements for Imaging Equipment , July 2009 version 1.1).
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What Does the Energy Star Label Really Mean?
Epson has announced that its wide-format inkjet printers Series Stylus Pro 7900 and 9900 reached 98% coverage of the Pantone Matching System.
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Epson Stylus Pro 7900 And 9900: Large-Format Inkjet Printers With 98% Pantone Matching System Coverage
PrinTip: Laser Printer Makers Don’t List Processor Specs So Look at Pages Per Minute Instead Printers are not like personal computers. When you buy a personal computer, the processor and its speed may influence your decision to buy one computer over another. When you buy a printer, a processor only matters if you buy a laser printer — yet most consumers don’t take processor speed into account (we ourselves don’t list it in our Specs That Matter section for reasons explained below)
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How Can I Evaluate the Processor in a Laser Printer?
Printer News: Xerox Phaser 6140 Color Laser Printer Offers Postscript 3 and Color Correction You may not look twice at the fire-plug design of the Xerox Phaser 6140 color laser printer.
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Xerox Phaser 6140 Color Laser Printer Aims to Please Perfectionists
Doc believes strongly that most people or most companies will only adopt a new technology or service if it makes straightforward economic sense. Research has shown that less than 20% will pay a premium because something is better for the environment or has other positive social outcome. But that doesn’t mean it’s not nice when something that makes economic sense also happens to be more socially responsible
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Managed Print Services: Paving the Way for a Leaner, Greener Fleet
PrinTip: Ink Is Designed to Dry on Paper, But That’s Not Always What Happens Ink in ballpoint pens and inkjet printer cartridges share a common trait — they’re designed to dry quickly. Fast-drying ink works well when the ink dries on paper, but not so well if the ink dries on the printhead that dispenses it
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How Can I Eliminate Blots From My Inkjet Prints?
When creating a Microsoft Word document , users may often wish to add visuals in the form of pictures. These pictures can easily be inserted in the Word document; however, sometimes the picture may be in color you want it to be in black and white. Fortunately, Word enables you to convert a color photo–or a clipart image–to black and white, sepia, grayscale or washout, right inside the Word document
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