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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 ...
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 ...
Ever wondered what’s actually inside an inkjet cartridge? We’ve taken an HP cartridge to a laboratory to find out what’s lurking beneath its hard exterior. Water Surprisingly, the ink in your inkjet cartridge is mostly made-up of filtered, deionised waste (up to 95% to be precise). Yet at more than £1 a millimetre, it would be cheaper to print your holiday snaps ...
Image: Olivander The humble pen may be mightier than the sword, but it is nevertheless taken for granted in today's modern world. But that wasn't always the case! Pens have a rich history dating back millennia to the earliest civilisations where only very few people had the skill required to wield, giving them a real and very tangible power. While you ...
Google has entered into a partnership with On Demand Books to allow custom printing of public domain books through Espresso Printing Machines (EPM). A select number of bookstores around the world have been handpicked to carry these machines and readers can demand for any of the 2 million books to be printed in a book format with the original cover, ...
We have scoured the web for the most unusual, random and downright fascinating printing-related articles out there. We start with a playful look at the more frivolous side of ink innovation and swiftly move on to some industry advances that could make a real difference to the environment. Next, we explore how printing is being applied to microelectronics and finish ...
Remember that scene in Minority Report, where newspapers could change their covers electronically to keep you informed of the latest news? Well a couple of months ago Esquire mens' magazine told the world they had tested a similar technology on a prototype edition to celebrate 75 years of bronzed ladies and gadgets. It hit the shelves in September and ...
HP has been a leading manufacturer of laser printers since the laser technology inception. The characters formed using a HP printer is crisp, sharp and graphics are usually band-free. The secret behind the professional prints is the HP patented technology, ColorSphere. HP has ensured that this technology would spurt out droplets that are consistent in size and shape, and imparts an ...
With the misadventure of Microsoft Vista, several users are migrating towards Linux and its variants. In Windows, sharing a printer was a non-arduous job but Linux is a whole new kettle. Many Linux distros mainly leverage upon Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) to share printers. Let us find out a little more about CUPS. In layman terms, CUPS is a piece ...
Argentina is not a country known for world records, in fact the only records one can think of associating Argentina is in Football. But in the printing world, Base3, based in Argentina has created a new Guinness World Record for producing the world's biggest printed digital image. The printer has printed a 60m X 20m poster depicting Ischigualastao, a UNESCO World ...