It appears, we can add HP to the short list of companies who not only talk about recycling and sustainable energy, but follow it up with meaningful action. The company’s annual report, just released, lists the following environmental achievements for the past year: The number of HP-manufactured ink cartridges containing some degree of post-consumer recycled plastic has now reached one billion. HP ...
Perhaps the best way to answer this question is with a scenario I imagine is very common in your life. Imagine this scene if you will… You are sat on the lavatory in the Hong Kong branch of McDonalds surfing the net on your smart phone for new images of Mr T (hey, we’re not here to judge). You find a ...
Canon, founded in Tokyo back in 1937, has for decades been a world leader in just about everything that involves images, including printers. A listing of the company’s technical innovations is imposing, but even that does not tell the entire tale; the original HP LaserJet, introduced in 1984, was built around the Canon LBP-CX photocopier engine, as was Apple’s Laserwriter. ...
Let’s be honest. You don’t like printers, do you? They are heavy, clunky, expensive contraptions that take up desk space and slow down your workflow – and that’s when they’re running perfectly. They run out of paper, run out of ink or toner, and jam at the most inconvenient times (I have long wondered how they know to do ...
If you look on the side of your printer cartridge box you might see something like ‘3000 pages at 5% coverage’. ‘Great’ you say, but what does this actually mean? And what does 5% coverage look like? Who created this 5% measurement? This 5% measurement was created by those good, good people at the excitingly named International Organisation for Standardisation. In their ...
Xerox and Cisco are partnering together to provide a state-of-the-art cloud computing and print service in a bid to boost the amount of services they can offer to their corporate clients. Cisco will now offer Xerox’s printing services on all its network equipment, which will help the two firms compete with rivals such as HP and Juniper Networks. Clients that opt ...
Today we’re taking a look at HP’s inkjet manufacturing operation facility where they test, develop and manufacture inkjet cartridges. The 200-acre site in Dublin was built back in 1995 and is the company’s main R&D HQ. According to HP, the precision required for an inkjet nozzle to perform correctly is similar to dropping a penny from a 40-storey building and hitting ...
Epson have taken legal action against Dynamic Cassette International. The company which trades as Jet Tec in the UK have allegedly infringed on Epson’s ink cartridge patents. The cartridges in question are sold on the high-street in the UK and in a number of other EU countries. A spokesman for Epson said that the company was taking a “proactive stance against infringements” to protect consumers ...
Application developer, Readdle, have released their latest version of the popular printing app – Printer Pro. The latest updated enhances the printing experience for iPad and iPhone users by delivering outstanding performance and an advanced set of features. Printer Pro 1.5 allows users to print email attachments, web pages, photos and any other document available on the Apple iOS including PDF. The ...
Is your printer spitting out pages faster than Usain Bolt can run the 100m's? Or is it stuck at a snail’s pace? If the later applies to you, then fear not as we have listed a few tricks to boost your printers performance. 1. Reduce Print Quality If you’re not printing photographs or rich graphics then consider reducing the print quality. The results ...