Tag archive: printer

Office solutions technology is hardly our favorite thing, but when it solves day-to-day pains like The Neat Company's NeatDesk has, it quickly elevates itself to a new standing. The NeatDesk is a slim, desktop-friendly device that quickly and efficiently organizes every scrap of paper that’s cluttering your space. We decided that post-CES would be the ideal time to take the device for a test ride. After the show, your every pocket is… Read More

As reported by the Wall Street Journal earlier today, Eastman Kodak may have to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection if company officials aren't successful in selling off 1,100 patents over the next few weeks. While the company would continue to operate during the bankruptcy procedure, Kodak would be forced to sell the patents during a court-supervised bankruptcy auction and wouldn't get the full value for the patents. The… Read More

We know, scanners are close to obsolete these days, particularly among the Apple crowd that can now have all of their digital lives floating around in iOS 5′s iCloud, but sometimes they still come in handy. If you want to get those old family photos or important paper documents integrated into your digital existence, using a scanner is just about the best and only way. If you're an Apple-lover, having an iOS-friendly scanner that is… Read More

Since Hewlett-Packard has turned away from the tablet business and discontinued the webOS-enabled HP TouchPad, the company announced a partnership with magazine publisher Condé Nast to create a subscription model that sends Condé Nast publications directly to a HP web-connected printer. For instance, consumers could subscribe to the digital versions of Epicurious, Wired or Glamour and schedule these publications for printing on personal or… Read More

Essays. Coupons. Last-minute directions to Grandma’s house. Whatever you need to print, there’s a home printer that can do it. And intense competition among competitors like HP, Lexmark, Canon and others has ground prices to such absurd lows that you can now walk into a store and walk out with a brand new printer for $60. But selecting a home printer among so many options can be tough, especially with all the convoluted terms that can… Read More

Today, Canon announced the release of two new wireless photo all-in-one printers to its consumer line of  PIXMA printers. The PIXMA MG8220 and MG6220 photo printers can communicate with Apple and Android smartphones to quickly print high-quality photo prints of recent pictures taken with mobile devices. In addition, consumers can utilize the Canon Easy-PhotoPrint application to scan photos or documents on the printer and have them sent directly… Read More

We buy plastic objects every day. Cups, toys, models, you name it. Everything is made out of plastic, and now, thanks to advancements in printing, you can make things out of plastic yourself. MakerBot is selling printers that let you create very detailed, real plastic objects with amazing precision. It's almost like having your own personal Star Trek Replicator. I caught up with a few of the fellas from MakerBot at GDGT Live in New York… Read More

Remember when “printing” meant watching a dot-matrix printer zip back and forth against a stuttering ribbon of tractor-feed paper? So do we, and nostalgia for those glorious accordions of paper aside, we’re glad they’ve over. These days, even the most rudimentary printer can crank out school essays, pie charts and photos without breaking a sweat, no fuzzy stubs needed. But as the baseline moves ever higher, printer companies have pushed the… Read More

Canon unveiled three of its wireless all-in-one printers, the PIXMA MX870, MX350 and MX340, at CES this past week. We got a sneak peek at the MX340 which feature an Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) and wireless connectivity for only $99. A pretty good deal if you ask us. This affordable printer would be handy at home or great for any small business.

Hewlett-Packard has long been a leader in the home printing business, building more and more features into its devices in order to increase their utility and appeal to consumers. Now HPis taking the home printer one step further by embedding the capability to tap into (and, of course, print) online content directly without needing to hook up a computer or other device to find the content and shuffle it along to the printer. Using HP… Read More

Now that Polaroid cameras have all but disappeared from store shelves, film for them has reached the price of dirt in Waterworld, and digital quality makes their prints look downright awful, what’s the instant photo lover to do? Grab a TakaraTomy Xiao, of course. Much like the Polaroid PoGo printer we looked at back in June, the Xiao uses zero ink technology, or Zink, which produces photos from dye crystals embedded in paper. Quite unlike the… Read More

The iPhone is finally patched, or at least we think so, possibly, we’re pretty sure… OK, we wouldn’t bet our lives on it. The 3G iPhone, surrounded by complaints and lawsuits, was hardly Apple’s best effort. But even so, it remains one of the most popular phone products ever created. It amazes me that the phone manufacturers weren’t able to come up with truly competitive products. That is until now.… Read More

The Wall Street Journal has reported (and other sources confirm) tech giant Hewlett-Packard is planning to reorganize its printer business, downsizing from five units to three in an effort to achieve more operational efficiency. The changes will consolidate the company's laser printer and commercial printer units, merge the inkjet printer unit with consumer supplies, and install a new head for its graphics unit. HP told employees the… Read More

To no one’s surprise, the mainstream arrival of digital cameras over a decade ago decimated Polaroid’s business by taking the company’s main attraction – instant photos – and eliminating the need for the film. But unlike the famous white-rimmed squares that could be traded from person-to-person, pinned up on corkboards, and squirreled away for posterity, their digital replacements lacked any real substance outside fleeting glimpses on a… Read More

Polaroid may not be making its famous instant-developing snapshot cameras anymore, but that doesn't mean fans of the instant picture will be left high and dry in the digital age. The company's new PoGo portable pocket printer aims to bring the spontaneous excitement of snapshots to the digital generation. The diminutive printer weighs just eight ounces (without paper), runs off a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, and can print… Read More