Four new colour laser printers are here from Brother, and the company is promoting them with one promise: speed. Brother Industries, Ltd., of Nagoya, Japan, one of the giants of the printer industry, has targeted small office environments in the hopes that these cost and efficiency-minded buyers are keen on printing in full colour, and in a hurry. The company’s U.S. ...
The Consumer Electronics Show has just closed in Las Vegas, and one of the stars, appearing in many guises across the exhibit halls, was the 3D printer. Again. Haven’t we been here before? This has been going on now for nearly twenty years. 3D printing is like the video telephone, which publicly premiered at the 1967 World’s Fair in New York and ...
Researchers at the University of Illinois have come up with a remarkable new ink based upon a surprising material — silver. New solutions The study, just published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, details the new ink, which is based upon a solution of silver and ammonia. This type of ink is a liquid at room temperature. It is made ...
Whitehouse Enterprises, which helps people with disabilities, asks home office workers and businesses to recycle their used printer cartridges at nine sites in and around Bury St. Edmunds. The innovative scheme, initiated by Whitehouse subsidiary Eco Services Digital, asks people to recycle their spent cartridges at nine sites in and around Bury St Edmunds. This will help acheive two noteworthy goals: ...
3D printing — building up a physical object from a digital description with a “printer” — might be moving one step closer to the average household, thanks to American technology company 3D Systems of Rock Hill, South Carolina. New hardware The company assure us that they will soon be selling their new Cube 3D printer on the retail market. Priced at $1299 ...
IDEAlliance, the world's leading independent standards body for production printing and various digital media processed, has awarded Ricoh Americas Corporation fully certification for the Ricoh Pro C901/C901s Graphic Arts Edition. The award acknowledges the range's excelling of industry standards, combined with EFI Fiery Print Services, across a number of judges categories: colorimetric accuracy, repeatability, durability and registration. The certification is ...
Those of us who own an HP Laserjet printer might want to consider updating the machine’s firmware to avoid attacks from hackers. Scare stories At least, that’s the way it appears. Let’s be honest: Some of these stories that get into the mainstream media are sheer hysteria while others are insignificant issues blown out of proportion. Other, more troubling ones might be ...
We have reported here before on the troubles of photographic pioneer Eastman Kodak. Now it appears, the 131-year-old company is struggling to keep operating. Selling off the patents According to reports published this week in the Wall Street Journal, the company has plans to file for bankruptcy as soon as this month or perhaps in early February. Kodak stock plummeted to a ...
The Canon Forest Program, a partnership between Canon USA and Arbor Day, have planted over 78,000 trees throughout 2011, it has been revealed this week. 2011's planting initiative has been split primarily been South Carolina's Manchester State Forest and Winconsin's Bayfield County Forest, and has taken Canon's tree planting total to 112,330 since the program's inception back in 2009. The Forest ...
The rise in home offices means a changed market for office equipment, and Panasonic is paying attention. Two new “fit anywhere” printers from Panasonic Panasonic System Networks Company of America has introduced two trimmed-down new multifunction printers (MFPs). These, the KX-MB1500 and KX-MB1520, share a slimmed-and-trimmed form factor that reduces the space and volume needed for installation and operation by approximately 25 ...