Archive for November, 2011

Printer and toner cartridges manufacturer Ricoh has won one of the top prizes at the International Green Awards 2011. The Ricoh Sustainability Optimisation Programme scooped the silver award in the Best Green Service Innovation category, recognising a service that the company says minimises resource use and is "truly sustainable". Accredited by the British Standards Institution (BSI), the...

The Cabinet Office has put out a tender for a print services contract worth between £704 million and £904 million over four years. It is calling for firms to supply multifunction devices with printer ink and toner cartridges, managed print services and print audit services under the Government Procurement Services's print framework agreement. The new Framework Agreements are targeted at two...

Researchers at Columbia University have been working with Laserjet printers for a few months and believe they’ve uncovered a large security flaw with potentially huge effects. After talking with government agencies a fortnight ago and contacting HP last week the researchers went public yesterday through MSNBC.com. In a demonstration the Columbia researchers tricked a printer into overheating...

Precision Printing has significantly boosted its digital print capacity with a £1 million investment in two new HP Indigo 7500 devices. The printers, which require six separate cyan, magenta, yellow, black, orange, and violet HP printer ink cartridges, join four existing Indigos at the Barking company, reports Print Week. Adding to one 7500, a 7000 and two 5000 devices, the latest additions...

Western Australian state and local government public officers paid excessive amounts for toner cartridges, a Corruption and Crime Commission report has revealed. Staff shelled out least AUS$415,000 (£265,000) over the odds for the toner cartridges and received gifts from the firm involved over a three-year-period. Officers who ordered the toner received gift vouchers, iPods, MP4 players,...

We recently blogged about how printers were being used toprint circuitry.. Well, last week a group of scientists from Cambridge university released a paper describing their efforts to print with circuits with a modified Epson ink-jet printer . The Science Using ferro-electric polymer inks has been possible for some time but the components made tend to have poor performance and are much...

Graphene, hailed as the "wonder substance" capable of transforming electronics manufacturing, has been successfully used with printer ink. Scientists from Cambridge have used the one-atom thick layer of carbon in conjunction with inkjet technology for the first time. Stronger than diamond yet lightweight and flexible, graphene enables electrons to flow much faster than silicon, according to...

From today (24th November for anyone reading this late) our contact phone number has changed, so whip out your address books, phones and contact lists to update our details. Stinkyink's Phone Number - 0844 414 4141 Stinkyink's Fax Number - 0844 414 4145 You'll be getting through to the same UK based customer service team ready to help anyway we can, all that's changed is the number. And...

As new figures indicate the UK is using more printer ink and toner cartridges than last year, it seems the appetite for document processing solutions is on the rise. While the rest of the world stagnated, printer sales in the UK grew six per cent year-on-year in the third quarter of 2011, according to figures from Context. Meanwhile, the British Printing Industries Federation has said the...

Printer ink manufacturer Xerox is helping British Airways to reduce it digital printing, scanning and mailing costs. A five-year deal will see the printing firm tackle the airline's mail-handling operation by managing the delivery of internal and external post, while also speeding up the production of in-flight printed materials. "British Airways has a culture of consistently improving...