Archive for December, 2007

HP and Staples in trouble? It must have been last April when HP and Staples in the States announced that henceforward Staples would only be stocking HP original ink cartridges, and would dispense with their own brand refilled cartridges. Our immediate thought was that there must have been some deal done because our experience is that our customers like to have choice when it comes to selecting...

Xerox increases Capacity of Solid Ink Sticks Xerox has just opened a spanking brand new manufacturing plant in Portland, Oregon dedicated to the production of their proprietary Solid Ink Sticks. The plant cost £11.7M ($24M) is 929sqm employs 75 staff and is intended to fulfill demand for an increasing market for their ink sticks. The Cryola like sticks have been developed over the last five...

Epson Inks: What You Need To Know Ink makes all the difference when it comes to choosing a printer. The types of inks used by the company can make a big impact on the quality of the print results and the oerall cost of running the machine. If you're considering buying an Epson printer, here's an overview of the ink options you'll have. Dye Inks vs. Pigment Inks In order to understand the...

From Cameras to Ink: The History of Canon The company we know today as Canon was first founded in 1933, as a small streetside shop called Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory. The founders, Goro Yoshida and Saburo Uchida, started the company in order to produce a 35-millimetre rangefinder camera.   The first camera the company developed went by the name "Kwanon," after a Buddhist...

The History of Epson Printers  Today, we know Epson as a company that makes printers, computers, scanners, televisions, and other home and office electronics. But the company started as a subsidiary of Seiko, a watch manufacturer.  Seiko itself was opened only about thirty years after Commodore Perry, a diplomat from the U.S. Navy, was sent to Japan on a mission to negotiate with the country...

Why do Photo Prints fade so quickly? Faded photos – we've all seen them. The colours begin to fade after a relatively brief time under an assault from the atmosphere. Three major contributors to fading of prints are Ozone in the air, Fluorescent light and water all of which are abundantly available in the atmosphere. We typically think of Ozone existing in the upper atmosphere and are all...

Email Spammers: I am gutted, I haven't been awarded any monies this morning. A strange opening statement you may think, but I along with most of you have been the lucky and proud receipient of daily emails giving me extradinory amounts of cash over the past few months. The best I ever did was on one Monday morning receive a total of $100Million, but I bet some of you can even beat that?. I...

Epson Ink – UltraChrome Ink Epson's new UltraChrome ink is an improved version of Epson's archival Colourfast ink and has been developed for the latest generation in inkjet professional printers, Epson UltraChrome ink is one of the most important advances made in desktop printing. Achieving superb colour expression on a variety of media is made possible by an increas of the density of pigment...

Epson ink Cartridge – Epson DURAbrite™ Ultra ink Epson's DURAbrite™ Ultra ink are pigmented inks and is the latest formulation in their long running development of pigmented inks. The products offer a superb solution for the SOHO (Small Office/Home Office) user enabling users to print high quality output on low cost plain paper, but also have the opportunity of utilising higher quality media...

Epson Ink – Claria™ Photographic Ink. With the advent of digital photography in the early 2000's the holy grail of the printer manufacturers has been to keep up with the incredible advances in camera and memory technology and allow users to output prints that are worthy of their subject. Only a couple of years ago if you wanted professinal quality prints you had to visit a shop or pop them in...