Archive for December, 2008

It is a long time since I owned a standalone scanner and still have somewhere a Scanjet 3c when Colour scanning was still a novelty!.  So when we recently took delivery of a brand new HP Scanjet N6310 I was looking forward to comparing them. Our first impressions of the machine were OK, light and dark grey colour scheme and taking up about the size of two A4 pages on my desk.  Interestingly...

HP has just released a free app which is available to download from the Apple "App Store" which enables your IPhone, or iPod touch to print photos directly to any Wifi networked printer and print 6 x 4 photos.  For full information go to HP Printer App Technorati Tags: HP,Apple,iPhone,iPod,printing,photos

Over the past few years printer manufacturers have moved into making their devices more and more all purpose, with all of the major manufacturers offering Printer/Scanner/Copier and some with built in fax capability as well.  Up until recently this was purely innovation by the printer manufacturers hoping to attract consumers to a single device which takes up less desktop space and is much more...

Xerox Phaser 8500 Ink's Unique Solid Design The Xerox Phaser 8500 and Xerox 8550 are excellent printers for business networks. Both of these printers handle high volumes of information quickly, produce colour and black and white copies rapidly, and connect easily to most computer networks. But the most important part of a printer is its ink, and the Phaser 8500 ink is uniquely well-designed...

Scientists with HP and Arizona State University's Flexible Display Centre have unveiled what they claim is an unbreakable active matrix computer screen that performs in a similar manner to a laptop computer screen. Mass production of such displays could make laptops, smart phones and other electronic devices cheaper since the display is usually a significant proportion of the material cost...

Following the widely reported research from the University of Queensland reporting that laser printers create potentially hazardous particles in the atmosphere, new research from the internationally renowned Fraunhofer institutes have concluded that electric Toasters create the same sort of particles and that there is no danger to them. Technical and financial support was provided by the...