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Home Printer Buying Guide: How to Choose the Best Printer for Your Needs

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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 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 complicate the process. With that in mind, we’ve put together a quick-and-dirty guide to selecting a home printer, with simple explanations of the most common terms and our recommendations for a majority of users.  Read more...

HP Builds Web Access into Photosmart Home Printer

HP Builds Web Access into Photosmart Home Printer

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 apps—some built-in, some that customers will be able to find and download on their own—users will be able to tap into online content like photos, coupons, tickets, maps, news, and more directly from the Photosmart Premium’s 4.3-inch touchscreen panel.

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TakaraTomy Xiao Digital Camera with Printer


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 PoGo, the Xiao has no need for an external camera or phone to print pictures from – everything you need to make memories on the spot has been rolled into one device.  Read more...

Blackberry, HTC and Sprint Target Apple iPhone

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.

Of course, if we actually ask a numbers firm, we find out that the iPhone (despite all the hype) is still a niche player.  Read more...

HP Plans to Trim Back Printer Business

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 changes will not involve any large-scale layoffs, but the company has already cut hundreds of printing-related positions in its Idaho, Washington, and Oregon facilities.  Read more...

Polaroid PoGo Pocket-Size Printer


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 screen.  Read more...

Polaroid PoGo Offers Snapshot Printing

Polaroid PoGo Offers Snapshot Printing

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 full-bleed 2-by-3-inch snapshots in 60 seconds using new Zink inkless printing technology. The quality isn’t as high as other photo printers on the market, but at snapshot size it seems to be just fine—and since the printer is PictBridge compatible, users can print snapshots using their PictBridge cameras and phones via USB or Bluetooth, with no need for an intervening computer.

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Canon Unveils Pixma iP100 Mobile Printer

Canon Unveils Pixma iP100 Mobile Printer

Canon has unveiled its Pixma iP100 portable printer, offering photo-capable resolution of up to 9,600 by 1,200 dpi in a package measuring just over one foot across and weighing only 4.4 pounds. The iP100 is intended for the travelling professional who needs to produce top-notch color documents while on the road (such as text and graphics for a presentation) and to consumers who want to be able to print color photos during a vacation.

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Canon Unveils $50 Ink-jet Photo Printer

Canon Unveils $50 Ink-jet Photo Printer

Along with the array of high-end camera equipment Canon unveiled earlier this week, the company also announced a new consumer-level photo printer that will sell for just $50. The Pixma iP2600 prints using Canon’s Full-Photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering (FINE) print heads, the same technology used in its pricier models.

“The Pixma iP2600 Photo Printer delivers exceptional photo print quality and speed at an affordable price,” said Yuichi Ishizuka, general manager of Canon U.S.A.’s Consumer Imaging Group, in a statement. The print heads in the iP2600 use 1,472 nozzles to deliver up to 4800×1200 dpi color resolution. Canon claims the printer should be able to produce 4 x 6 prints in about 55 seconds, or 17 color pages per with toned-down quality settings.

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Brother Offers $150 Wi-Fi Laser Printer

Brother Offers $150 Wi-Fi Laser Printer

Printer and peripheral maker Brother is no strange to kicking out affordable printing products and other peripherals for home and small business use, but every once in a while they offer a new product that brings home how once-expensive technology can suddenly become affordable. The company has announced its new HL-2170W WiFi-equipped monochrome laser printer—which in itself wouldn’t be too noteworthy, except for the fact the device carries a suggested retail price of $149.99.

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