Archive for May, 2008

Unusually for a new printer the Lexmark X9575 comes with high capacity ink cartridges - none of your 'starter' cartridges here!.  The machine includes Print, Scan, Copy and Fax functions is WiFi Enabled and comes with Duplex printing as standard. Styled with Lexmark's usual Black, White and Silver livery the X9575 is conventionally laid out with a 50 sheet ADF (Automatic Document Feeder)...

The Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) has named the Epson Stylus Photo R1900 the 'Best Expert Photo Printer in Europe 2008'.  Epson has won this award for the second consecutive year and TIPA judges highlighted a number of key features that separate the winning Epson Stylus R1900 from its competition.  These include the printer's seven separate colours, its capability to...

Colour Space and Colour Gamut As a species, we have pretty good colour vision. Although it doesn’t extend far into the infra-red or ultra-violet spectra, it’s good enough to navigate the world we live in. The range of colours we can see, technically called the colour gamut of our vision, is quite a lot bigger than the gamut a printer can produce and, to a lesser extent, bigger than the gamut a...

When we were approached by the BBC News team who were doing a special feature on the 'Victims of Credit Card Crime' to appear on a 'BBC News Special Report' we were only too happy to help.  Having been the victims of a concerted card fraud attack back in 2002 which cost us loads of money we believe that these days we have the most secure site it is possible to have.  In fact shopping online...

Everyone and their brother/sister has been watching oil prices go up and up and up.  There seems to be no end.  With higher oil prices, means higher fuel cost, which in turns means higher prices for almost everything.  But what about the other products of oil, mainly, plastics. Yes that wonderful non-degrading product we use daily is made out of oil.  I recently read an...

Q: When I print from the Windows XP Picture and Fax Viewer using the Photo Printing Wizard, my prints look too dark. What is wrong? A: Some Epson printer drivers produce darker output from the Windows XP Photo Printing Wizard with Service Pack 2 (SP2) when used with their default color settings. We will be updating the drivers to correct this problem and posting them on the Epson Support...

  Epson America Inc. announced that vigorous enforcement of its ink cartridge patents continues on many fronts following the Final Determination and Exclusion Orders by the U.S. International Trade Commission (“ITC”). The decision made in October 2007 bars imports of infringing ink cartridges for Epson printers in the USA and Canada. “Epson strongly recommends that all importers and...

A piece of paper is a rolled-out mix of wood pulp and cloth, right? And photo paper is wood pulp and cloth with varnish on top. Yet, printer and ink makers try and tell us ink and paper form a ‘technology system’ which governs the look and quality of our photos. Surely they’re just trying to justify the prices they charge? Actually, having been around paper plants and into ink research labs, a...