Printing Tips and Guides

It's the time of giving again, and one of the most popular gifts at Christmas is a new printer. But what printer should you buy this Christmas? We've trawled through existing special offers and used our industry expertise to select the best printers for your requirements. We've also used our knowledge of printer cartridge running costs. If a printer is incredibly expensive to run, we haven't...

Most of the recent developments have been in the area of wireless printing and as usual it’s often not at all clear what the features on new printers actually mean. So Today I’ll be trying to clear away some of the technical jargon that somehow always gets mixed in to new technologies. Cloud Printing: Cloud printing is the name for the process of sending your documents to the printer via...

Refurbished printers are second hand printers that have been professionally tuned up, cleaned and then sold on. They’re often avoided due to a general fear of refurbished electronic goods, but if you’re a savvy shopper you can find some amazing deals. Read on to see the reasons you should consider buying a refurbished printer, and the pitfalls to avoid....

In the next in our series of fixing common printer problems we have one of the most annoying laser printer errors - a blank horizontal or vertical line on your printouts, whilst the rest of the page prints fine. This is one of the more common errors with a laser printer, but mistakenly attributed to an empty toner cartridge. Answer the following questions: Are the blank lines happening on...

Experiencing printer troubles on a windows machine? Having trouble with printer spoolers or your printer not being found? Microsoft have provided a helpful page for windows-users to go to as a quick-fix. Involving 3 steps to find what is wrong, it is a great way to quickly find the problem and get it fixed hassle-free.   What Can I Find On This Printer Help Page? Step 1 -> A Basic...

We just thought we'd let our customers know about a new wave of threats hitting internet users. Mailicious spam emails are something we've all become accustomed to, but hackers are now reportedly mimicking emails from printers in an attempt to get users to download Trojan files.   How is this email scam happening? Most new printers offer an email functionality, where you can scan a...

It can happen in many guises. You may have a print job stuck as pending in your print queue.... You may have a print request stuck as "deleting" for hours...Either way, merely trying to print and your printer ignoring you is incredibly annoying. Trying to print, your printing ignoring you and the print job sitting mockingly in your Print queue is akin to a slap in the face.   How To...

It's been an interesting few months watching how manufacturers are responding to the changing landscape of technology. With the incredible globalisation and accessibility of information, coupled with technology making it easily-sharable, the demand for printing has risen, but the ways in which you can go about it has not. We've recently written about ways you can spread your printing...

If you've ever had an Epson printer, it's quite likely that at some point in time you will have attempted to print in black only to receive an error message that you cannot print until a colour cartridge is replaced. Scandalous! Ridiculous! I want to print some work, not a multi-coloured rainbow of joy. This understandably irks our customers quite considerably, so we went and got the answer...

Keep Calm and Carry on Posters are the latest craze to hit the world of posters and have even expanded to mugs, t-shirts and all kinds of other media! Creating your own is actually incredibly easy and can be done without the aid of any graphic design software! ...