Archive for July, 2007

In a report published by the Queensland University of Technology, researchers have concluded that printing using laser printers can be as bad for your health as smoking. Professor Lidia Morawska found fine particles emitted by some laser printers raised indoor particle levels fivefold during office hours, that almost a third emit potentially dangerous levels of toner into the air and that the...

Lexmark inc, have introduced a range of network ready Multi Function Printers aimed at the SME marketplace. Compact and affordable, Lexmark’s X500n and X502n colour laser MFP delivers big advantages to small workgroups. These include outstanding colour output, as well as high-performance printing, copying and scanning. Affordable network colour laser MFP Printing, copying and...

The Latest information from the Royal Mail website regarding the ongoing industrial action is as follows: We are pleased to confirm that the current industrial action has been suspended. (Hurragh!) At a meeting today, between Royal Mail and the Communications Workers Union it was agreed: that both parties commit to talks on all the issues between them, hosted and facilitated by the TUC...

The compatible colour and black toner cartridges for the Epson Aculaser C1100 and CX11 have just been price slashed. Save nearly £80.00 on a full set of four cartridges. These high quality compatible toner cartridges are filled with Chemical Toner, and should give you results comparable with the Manufacturers originals

To paraphrase Mark Twain, 'the reports of my demise are a little premature'. Oki desktop solutions (who do not produce any inkjet printers) are predicting the demise of the desktop inkjet printer. ''The technology is showing every sign of entering its last useful phase. Market figures are dropping, the value of the machines on the market is dropping, manufacturers are consolidating their...

Lexmark International announced a shakeup of its top management Friday, moving the head of its struggling inkjet division to an open position in Europe, where he had previously worked for the company. Replacing him will be the chief of the company's laser printer division, a division that rebounded quickly after a slump in 2005. Industry observers praised the move, noting that Paul Rooke's...

Shares of Seiko Epson Corp., the world's second-biggest maker of inkjet printers, headed for their biggest decline in almost two years after Credit Suisse Group cut the stock's investment rating to ``underperform.'' The stock plunged 11 percent to 3,400 yen as of 10:30 a.m. on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, headed for the biggest drop since September 20 This, following hot on the heels of Lexmark...

The US computer giant Hewlett-Packard is in talks to buy the French group Bull for 720 million euros (988 million US dollars), the magazine Capital said on its Internet site Thursday. It said the two groups were in "advanced" talks, with HP expected to put forward a proposal in early August worth 720 million euros, "or 7.5 euros per Bull share, which is a 40 percent premium on the average...

Finally some good news in the Printer arena. Following hot on the heels of Lexmark's and Xerox reporting poor performance in Q2 in Tokyo Canon Inc. reports on thursday that profit jumped 17 percent in the April-June quarter on hot-selling copiers, printers and digital cameras, as well as a weaker yen. Canon has been booming in recent quarters thanks to brisk sales of its popular digital...

New research by the British Chambers of Commerce has discovered that small and medium sized businesses (SME’s) could be seeing over £2.5 million of post being delayed by each postal strike. Using information from the Postcomm report 2006 Competitive Market Review, the BCC has ascertained that SME’s send 8,219,178 items per day through franking machines. With post run through a franking...