HP Printing

The Saga Continues Back in November we told you about a flaw in some HP laser-jets that may have allowed their security to be compromised, possibly even turning your friendly printer into a fire hazard! At the tail end of last week HP responded to the situation by releasing a patch to remove the vulnerability. While HP maintains that no-one has complained of falling victim to the exploit,...

Last week I wrote about how researchers at the University of Culombia had found a security flaw in some HP LaserJets that enabled them to completely re-write the operating system for those affected printers. Well since then there’ve been a couple of advancements in the story. Firstly, Professor Salvatore Stolfo has made another statement and gone into more detail about the extent of the...

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...

HP announces Q4 results - which are “Disappointing” After a turbulent period which saw HP dithering over the sale of its PC division and the fire sale of its touchpad competitor to Apples iPad the figures were further hit by the $2.1bn the company paid for restructuring, mainly affecting its webOS business that powered the TouchPad. HP's iPad rival was scrapped in August and the company said...

HP has announced that it will make remote printing easier for workers in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. The printer ink firm has unveiled a new HP ePrint & Share mobile application for the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. According to HP, this latest innovation will allow professionals in the AEC sector to easily locate and access large-format plans on the...

HP has announced that it has received a favourable review by the US International Trade Commission (ITC) with regards to patent-infringing ink cartridges. The company has stated that the ITC has upheld its initial ruling, which was announced in June 2011, and makes additional findings of infringements. According to HP, the ITC has agreed that Asia Pacific Microsystems (APM) is a contributory...

It doesn’t rain, but it pours for HP.  In a class action lawsuit shareholder Richard Gammel accused the world's largest technology company of concealing the fact that its existing business model was not working and that webOS -- the operating software it inherited after buying Palm -- was no longer central to its business model reports Reuters. After  the announcement on August 18 it was...

Printer Sales Bomb! UK Printer sales bombed by 15 percent in unit terms during the second quarter of 2011, compared with the same period a year ago, with lasers the only sector to show growth.  According to research conducted by Context and reported in CRN, inkjet printers plunged off a cliff face during Q2 with sales shrinking by 41 per cent, all in one (AIO) inkjets also slid albeit not as...

Cybercriminals are always looking for easy ways to break into your network, whether at work or at home. In a talk at this summer's DefCon19 conference, security researcher Deral Heilanddemonstrated various ways to compromise multifunction printers. These include printers that can scan to a file, scan to email, and fax documents, and the vulnerabilities he found are similar across all...