Tag archive: printing

President Obama has signed an Executive Order to cut how much government agencies spend on technology devices, printing, swag, and vehicles by 20 percent. This new Order builds on the “Campaign to Cut Waste” that the President stated back in June. According to a White House press release, this campaign has already saved about $3.5 billion in real estate costs and $5 billion on “no bid contract” spending. Obama's… 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

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

Though printing photos from a cell phone only a few years ago would have been a monumental waste of ink that resulted in muddled, grainy “photos,” cell phone cameras have come so far in that short period that this type of printing is no longer a joke. To establish itself in the emerging market for mobile printing, HP has been testing the waters lately with a new iPhone application that allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to print… Read More

Whether Americans laughed at or lusted for Canon’s bucket-shaped Selphy CP770 printer when it cropped up in Europe, they won’t have to do it from across the pond much longer. The Japanese image company announced on Tuesday that it has brought the unique CP770 and its more compact brother, the CP760 to the United States. Although Canon’s marketing materials refer to the CP770’s look as a… Read More

Last month, Lexmark announced it was planning to deliver a dozen new inkjet printers as part of its 2007 product line, with fully half of those units offering built-in Wi-Fi printing, an another couple offering wireless printing as an option. Now, the company is beginning to make good on its promise, delivering new inkjet printers available which offer integrated Wi-Fi printing…and one that has a price tag under $80. The new Lexmark… Read More

Kodak is well-known for its photo printers, but the company has decided to take the next step and enter the all-in-one printer market with its new Easyshare 5100, 5300, and 5500 inkjets, with an eye toward letting consumers print documents and accomplish other common tasks while offering high levels of print quality and—perhaps most importantly for a company looking to enter the inkjet market—low cost of ownership. “For… Read More

Epson today announced two new Stylus Photo six-color ink photo printers which are both set to hit the streets now. The R220 is priced at $99, while the R340 comes in at $199. The R220 offers 5760 x 1440 optimized dpi and gives customers the ability to create customized CDs and DVDs with personalized text, graphics and photos via the printer's front-loading tray. This printer offers borderless printing in sizes such as 4″ x… Read More

A new study of digital camera owners' photography habits from IDC has found that the averagenumber of images taken by digital photographers has continued to increase: users are expected to take an additional 18 images a month in 2005, while the average number of monthly prints is expectedto increase 29 percent during the year. However, the study also found that users' printing behavior is changing with the increased volume of prints,… Read More

Besides their announcement with Walgreens about the rollout of the nationwide drugstore chain's new Snapfish powered online photo service, Hewlett Packard was also busy today unveiling news about their new ink-based printing platform which they say will deliver record-breaking print speeds which can scale to high-volume printing markets. This new printing platform, based on five years of research and a $1.4 billion… Read More

Quote from the review: “The Stylus CX3600 sits at the bottom of Epson's all-in-one printer range and is suited to home workers, students or small business users. It's not the most stylish or capable device, but itsrelatively compact form factor and good print quality on general paper should suit general users who don't want the expense of purchasing and running a high-end photo-imaging solution. The StylusCX3600 is no… Read More

From the press release: Using the HP Wireless Printing for Mobile Phones software application and an HP printer that supports the Bluetooth Basic Print Profile (BPP), Sony Ericsson smartphone users can select and print JPEG photos, email (text and JPEG attachments), short message service (SMS), contacts and calendar items from their phones. The Sony Ericsson P900 Smartphone is fast becoming the PDA of choice for business people who want… Read More

From HP's press release: HP today announced third-party test results confirming that HP's recently introduced black and white capable photo printing systems offer customers professional-quality black and white photos that resist noticeable light fading for 115 years. Last year, the company introduced several HP Photosmart printers that produced professional-quality black and white photos. HP asked Wilhelm Imaging… Read More

The new MJC-2250c is an affordable high-resolution printer with fast printing, small footprint, and simple operation. The maximum output resolution of 4800dpi X 1200dpi (5.76 million pixels in all) is currently the highest possible for inkjet models, and printing in color can be as fast as 8 pages per minute. Such features make this printer an extremely capable solution for home digital photography. Samsung's new printer is also… Read More

One important feature is the built-in 802.11b wireless LAN support, which removes the typical tangle of network cables. Samsung's new printer addresses another key connection issue, the bottleneck in sending documents from a PC to the printer, by supporting the USB 2.0 connection, which is up to 40 times faster than the conventional 1.1 standard. The Samsung Electronics ML-2150W is capable of printing up to 20 pages per minute. To… Read More