Technology

Probably not included in the update... It has just come to my attention that Apple have rolled out a new Software Update for OSX Lion and it's older brother, Snow Leopard entitled "Canon Printer Drivers v2.7". Interestingly, aside from the titular Canon Printer drivers, the update also includes updates for printers by Samsung, Ricoh, Gestetner, Lanier, Infotec, and NRG. The update comes in at...

We’ve reported before on all kinds of uses being found for 3D printers, today I’ve collected some projects that show 5 surprising areas where 3D printing is making headway. Animation - Robotics - Fashion & Art - Novelty Items - Printing Read on below to see some of the fantastic projects that are being enhanced by the emergence of 3D printing. Animation One of the most surprising...

Engineers at Sony have been working on some new technology aimed at not only finding a use for waste paper from your old print outs but actually using it to power electronic devices! As with some of the best innovations the idea is similar to one found in nature. Ants and termites digest wood and other plant matter, converting it into sugars which can then be easily used for energy. In a...

3D printers seem to be making great advances these days, we've told you about them being used as A children's toy and back in September we talked about how 3D printers were being used in to create artificial blood vessels. Well, now another brilliant team of medical researchers have found an ingenious use for them, re-growing bones. Professor Susmita Bose was involved in the work which was...

A university in the US is saving money by changing the way it uses its printer ink and toner cartridges. Arizona State University (ASU) has reduced energy usage and carbon emissions from its printing operations by switching devices to duplex mode. A study by Canon shows that in the 2011 financial year, duplex printing saved the institution 725 trees and 2.34 million litres of water, and cut...

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...

It may seem like a bit of a tenuous link but the Olympics actually had a large role to play in the evolution of our modern day desktop printers. The story starts in the early 60’s, up until now timekeeping for official Olympic events was usually conducted by a Swiss gentleman with a stopwatch. When the Games went to Japan in 1964 the Olympic Committee selected the Japanese company Sura...

UK Printer sales rocketed by 6% in Q3 2011 compared to the same period in 2010 according to market research company Context.  Their latest figures reveal that both inkjet and laser printers benefited.  The rise contrasts with a sales decline across western Europe as a whole, which saw sales fall one per cent in unit terms during the third quarter of 2011 compared to the same quarter in 2010....

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...

Actinic by default throws the company name at the start of the page title if there is no page title currently set for the section or brochure page. You can get around this by replacing your page title in the main layout with the following code, changing 'Solar Electronics LTD' with your own company name which you have set in 'Business Settings'. <title> <actinic:block...