Archive for the ‘Ink’ Category

We advise people on how to solve minor issues with their cartridges pretty regularly, however it didn’t take us long to realise that all printer-owners do not know how to do these basic functions with their machines, and I don’t know either. So, not wishing to be a hypocrite, I marched up to my [...]

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 [...]

  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 [...]

Six Steps to Greener Printing in 2008.   Printing can be ecologically costly. Printer ink can leach out of cartridges and papers in landfills and pollute the surrounding environment; and paper manufacturing destroys ecologically diverse forests and contributes to global warming. Luckily, however, it’s not difficult to make your home or office printing more environmentally [...]

New Photo Printer from Epson stretches the limits!   Epson are just in the process of releasing to the world their latest top end Phot Printer. The Epson R1900 is the latest in a long line of professional photo printers that dominate the top end of the market for high quality printing and can deliver photos [...]

Epson launch their ‘Print Academy’ Epson have launched a training day for users who want to get the most out of their inkjet printers. Users of Epson Inkjet Printers may get benefit from an in depth look at how to get the most out of their inkjet printers. With the increasing complexity offered by [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]