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The Idea of Printed Organs is Coming True 2007-11-08 08:21:12 The idea of creating artificial body organs is not new. It has been vastly developed in sci-fi literature, where the very process of creation was surrendered to the imagination of the author. Few people know that scientists have long been into this area and have reached some positive results.
Science Daily reports that Gabor Forgacs, a professor of physics in the MU College of Arts and Science, has been developing and perfecting the process of “printing” tissues, aiming at building human organs. In his recent study, Forgacs showed that creating tissue structures by means of printing maintain the properties of the composing cells, and the very process resembles the way living tissues are created in nature.
The researchers used bio-ink particles, or spheres with 10,000 to 40,000 cells, and “printed” them on sheets of special “bio-paper.” The spheres then began to fuse in the bio-paper into one structure, pretty much like drops of water stick together into a larger drop of wat
Printing Industry Overview 2007-11-15 06:32:04 HP claimed it’s giving up its camera manufacturing business. Instead the company plans to focus more resources on Print 2.0 – the new web-centered printing concept.
However, the company is going to maintain the brand and now is looking for an OEM partner that will design, build and distribute digital cameras under HP label.
HP wants to accelerate its investment in Print 2.0 initiative, which the company unveiled in May at its Imaging and Printing
Conference in New York. According to HP, 53 trillion pages will be printed in 2010, creating a market valued at more than $296 billion. Most part of those pages is to be printed from the Web. HP’s Print 2.0 strategy is focused on using Web-based services to get a significant share of the growing number of digital pages printed each year.
This move of HP seems very logical, I mean who ever bought HP digital cameras?
Purchasing future revenues, HP also keeps up with current developments. Researchers from Palo Alto have created toner partic Read more:Overview
World’s Widest Printhead 2007-11-16 08:15:03 Tonejet, a developer of digital printing process, has announced its revolutionary extra-wide printhead. The 172mm-wide head, claimed to be the world’s widest integral printhead has been developed in cooperation with a number of partners.
The system is based on electrostatic drop-on-demand deposition technology that doesn’t have nozzles, but uses a very fine jet of concentrated ink to create a robust, thin and flexible layer that renders unnecessary the labels on curved or uneven surfaces. The new printhead allos to create high-quality designs onto virtually any type of absorbing or non-absorbing substrate at high speed.
Here is an example of a image printed on a feather!
The technology is going to find its first application in packaging, with printed products due to hit the market in the course of the coming year. Tonejet said that the main reason they chose packaging is because it’s a large market and many packaging companies want to apply digital technolog Read more:World
Epson Launches a Pack of Five New Printers 2007-11-14 09:37:52 The Epson
’s five includes two multifunctions, a compact photo printer, a regular-sized printer and another multifunction with faxing capabilities.
Of the first two multifunctions, Stylus Photo RX690 is the new flagship consumer photo MFP that features Epson’s new Realoid printer engine chip. Epson Stylus Photo RX690 prints and copies 40 pages of both black text and color documents per minute.
Additionally, Photo RX690 features dual paper trays for a combined paper holding capacity of up to 300 (150 for front feed and 150 for rear feed) A4 sheets. This model also has the option of an auto-duplexer.
Stylus Photo RX610 is a new entry level multifunctional photo printer. Epson Stylus Photo RX610, in turn, can print as fast as up to 37 pages per minute for A4 sized black text document and 38 ppm for color documents; A4 copy speeds are almost equivalent at 37 copies per minute.
Both multifunctions are equipped with a 2.5-inch tiltable LCD screen for pre-print preview and editing, off Read more:Five New
History of Inkjet Printers Development. Part 1. 2007-11-21 08:26:27 The inkjet printer has come a long way from a supplementary project inside a hi-tech corporation to most popular computer printing device.
If you own a printer at home, the chances are good it’s an inkjet printer. Nowadays, inkjet printers are the most popular printing device for home and small office use, but it has not always been like that.
From the 1960s into the 1980s computer printing was dominated by dot-matrix printers. Some of them can still found around. Unfortunately, dot-matrix still used an impact method for printing (pretty much like typewriters), so the problem of noise and speed limitations remained. With word processing getting more and more important, a fast, quiet, high-quality printer became required.
In the early 1980s, introduction of the laser printer met that need. By eliminating the need for physical impact against a ribbon, laser printers achieved much higher speeds and were able to work in almost silence. As personal computers grew popular during the 1980s, Read more:History
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New Technology Promises Cheaper Microchips and Larger Displays 2007-11-26 08:07:01 California-based company has developed a technology that may enable cheap electronic microchips and large displays.
As time passed, inkjet printing technology finds application in areas having little or nothing to do with producing texts, graphics or photos. Inkjet printers have been successfully adopted into bioengineering (for printing tissues of human body) and electronics (for printing electronic circuits). These are two industries that require high precision in manipulation with ultra-fine particles, just what inkjet technology can do. Now let’s get to the point.
A California-based company named Kovio announced a new process that can be used for printing memory and logic chips transistors. This technology is particularly convenient as it uses commercial printing equipment such as inkjet printers, which make the production of microchips cheap and easy.
Currently, Kovio’s method uses several types of commercial printers, including inkjet models. Also, the company has developed a Read more:Technology
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Study Finds Consumers Overpay For Printer Ink Tremendously 2007-11-22 08:58:06 Recent study show customers have no basis for comparison when buying printers, which results in $6 billion overpay on ink every year.
The American Consumer Institute released a new white paper entitled “Inkjet Prices, Printing Costs and Consumer Welfare” disclosing pricing strategies adopted within the inkjet industry. This is the first document made by public organization (we don’t consider numerous articles on the topic in magazines and sites by independent authors).
Inkjet printers are usually under-priced or even sell in the red to make them more appealing for purchase. However, the manufacturers make up the profit on overpriced ink, and consumers are left with no choice and spend hundreds of extra dollars to operate the printers. The printer ink is currently one of the most expensive liquids in the world. The price of it can be compared with that of the world’s finest champagne, gasoline and most luxury fragrances.
Currently, there’s no standardized printer ink unit Read more:Study
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Brother Launches New Copier/Printers 2007-11-29 08:31:14 Brother International has announced its DCP-9000 Series of Digital Color Laser Copier
/Printers. The DCP-9000 Series is designed for small office and small workgroups, and includes DCP-9040CN as a base model and the DCP-9045CDN as an enhanced version.
Brother markets the series as copier-printers, they can equally be considered printers with copying and scanning features added. If you view them as three-function all-in-ones with printing, copying, and scanning, you won’t be wrong either.
Genera specification of the DCP-9000 Series are the following. Print speeds reach up to 21 pages per minute for both color and monochrome at resolution of up to 2,400 by 600 dpi. Copying speeds are a bit lower — up to 17 copies per minute in both color and monochrome. Copy zoom range varies from 25 percent to 400 percent in 1-percent increments.
The two copier/printers have built-in Ethernet network connectivity. They can scan in color at an optical resolution of up to 1,200 by 2,400 dpi. As for Read more:Brother
Print Your Photos From… TV 2007-11-27 07:05:02 You’ve, probably, heard or seen those compact photo printers that promise photo-lab quality printing at home. You may even own one. These standalone printers are designed so you can create images without help of computer, though, personally, I don’t think this is a good idea.
Anyway, those printers have tiny (I know, manufacturers call them large) LCD-display that is supposed to let you preview the snapshots before print and perform some minor photo editing. Never took this feature seriously, because nothing compares to full-size display.
I suppose the same idea came to both Epson and Philips, too. The two companies together have developed a new product called PhotoViewer. Using PhotoViewer you can (guess what?) view photos on your TV screen and then print the ones you liked on a printer. Despite your expectations, PhotoViewer can be connected to any TV-set, however, the printer would be Epson, precisely Epson PictureMate PM240.
The PhotoViewer is actually a black glossy box wit Read more:Print
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Konica Minolta Introduces 6 New Devices 2007-12-05 09:52:01 Konica Minolta Business Solutions unveiled several new network-ready color and monochrome printers to add to the company’s line of printers and all-in-ones. The new products include 4 color magicolor laser printers and 2 new monochrome pagepro laser printers. According to Konica Minolta, “all of the new printers are versatile, cost-effective and provide several attractive features compared to similar models offered by competitors.”
magicolor 8650DN
The magicolor 8650DN boasts an ultra-fast 11 x 17/A3 tandem engine with quick warm-up and first page out time, and is driven by the Konica Minolta’s exclusive Emperon™ Print System to produce 35 pages per minute (PPM) at maximum of 19,200 x 600 dpi resolution for color and black and white prints on a variety of media sizes and weights (including banner paper). Its performance includes a Gigabit Ethernet, 100 percent duplex productivity, monthly duty cycle of 150,000 pages and convenient printer management functions such as: an Read more:Devices
Star of Samsung And Afterlife of Toner Cartridge 2007-12-03 08:36:39 Just like any other industry, printers and printer supplies manufacturing produces lots of waste. The problem of supplies, that is toner and ink cartridges, is nowadays solved by remanufacturing or recycling.
Remanufacturing, roughly put, is a process of reconstructing of a cartridge; we’ve discussed it our previous article, you can read it to get the details. Recycling means physical destruction of an object into raw material and creating new items from it. And it is recycling that is the topic of today’s post.
Let’s suppose you like Samsung
laser printers so much that you own one. Now let’s assume you are so green that mere idea of empty cartridges going into landfill makes you turn red. All that provided, there is a really good news for you.
Just the other day Samsung launched the STAR program, which stands for Samsung Takeback And Recycle program. This program offers free return and recycling of empty Samsung toner cartridges and two options to do so.
The first way is to lo Read more:Cartridge
HP and Staples Are Sued for Expensive Ink 2007-12-20 07:14:40 When it comes to printer ink market, most lawsuits are file by OEM cartridges manufacturers against third-party makers of compatible or generic cartridges. But this is not always true.
According to Arstechnica, a man named Ranjit Bedi filed a class-action lawsuit against printer maker HP and office supply retailer Staples
. He contends both firms broke antitrust laws in collaborating on the sale of replacement ink-jet cartridges. The plaintiff also claims HP paid Staples $100 million to seize selling third-party ink cartridges, however, from the suit it's not clear how Bedi figured that out.
Average price of printer ink is $8000 per gallon making it one of most expensive liquids in the world and most profitable business for printer makers. So it's no surprise that OEM cartridge manufacturers protect their business in every way they can. And so far they win in most cases.
In his suit, Bedi asks for unspecified damages and an injunction barring the two companies from engaging in antic
Ricoh Aficio SP C400DN Color Laser Printer 2007-12-19 06:19:39 There is never a day that passes by printer manufacturers release new model. Supporting this tradition, Ricoh introduced Aficio SP C400DN, a color laser printer for small businesses.
Apart from "high-quality output", "superior performance", "high productivity" and other meaningless phrases, there is something else to know about this printing.
When printer is turned on, it takes only 10 seconds to warm up for black & white prints, and 15 seconds for color.
Should you assign the Aficio SP C400DN a large task, you will see it reaching printing speed of 26 pages per minute (ppm) in both color and monochrome. And the 600MHz controller helps output large files quickly. If you switch from the draft mode, it is possible to get 1200×1200 dpi resolution for the prints.
It's worth mentioning that the large printing task would be halted after 1,750 pages. This is the standard paper capacity of Aficio SP C400DN. However this figure can be increased by adding more paper drawers, Read more:Color
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How to Detect and Fix Problems with Laser Monochrome Printing. Part 3 2007-12-17 05:17:58 Previously on ”How to Detect
and Fix Problems with Laser
Monochrome Printing
” we examined toner cartidge components and reviewed several possible reasons of printing problems. Today we shall pick up from where we left last time.
3. Magnetic Roller
This roller in HP printer is a metal cylinder covered with special coating with a magnetized bar inside. This part rarely gets out of order. For most part dirty print is caused by toner dosing.
The dirt "gives" a stripe to magnetic roller, thus, "taking away" a stripe from image on prints:
One of the signs of incorrect toner dosing is spilling of toner into the split between the metering blade and the magnetic roller:
Toner is spilled onto magnetic roller, which transfers the toner on photo drum. Photo drum, in turn, transfers the toner on paper, just like it should. This is how those needless stripes occur along the length of the page. The stripes may be black, if the split is wider than necessary for tone
How to Detect and Fix Problems with Laser Monochrome Printing. Part 2 2007-12-14 06:30:47 Continuation of part 1
This time we shall consider toner cartridge defects, their aftermath and ways to fix them. Previously we found that cartridge consists of several part. Despite the small amount of parts, there are enough factors affecting quality of printing.
1. Organic Photo Conductor (OPC)
OPC is also known as photo drum, drum, photoreceptor or photoconductor. On its surface a toner image to be transferred to paper is created. This dictates peculiarities of its functioning.
Problem with photo drum of cartridge for Hewlett-Packard Laser
Jet 1200 printer.
Most common defect is black patterns appearing on the print's edges. This means the photoreceptor is critically worn out. Photo sensitive coating is rubbed off, and toner first adheres to "naked" drum and then gets transferred to paper.
This is how the worn-out looks like on the photoreceptor. Factually, this is a physical process of drum coating rubbing against paper and toner.
Unfortunately, the problem can only be Read more:Printing
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Panasonic KX-MB271 and KX-MB781: New Cheap Multifucntions 2007-12-14 06:10:28 Panasonic launched two new multifunction devices into market: the KX-MB271 and the KX-MB781.
Panasonic KX-MB271 as a decent multifunction device can scan, copy and print. It is built around a monochrome laser printer engine that can print 18 ppm at a resolution of up to 600 by 600 dpi, with a claimed warm-up time of 15 seconds. The scanner scans at up to 600 by 1200 dpi and can automatically crop scans to the size of the scanned document. The printer has a built-in document feeder that handles up to 20 sheets of paper. The KX-MB271 comes with the text recognition software that can convert scanned documents into text. As for paper capacity, there is only one paper tray for up to 250 sheets of paper. The KX-MB271 uses a USB port to connect to a PC, but there is no networking option available, so the device cannot be shared over a network.
Panasonic KXMB781 is no different from the KXMB271 in terms of basic characteristics, but it supports sending and receiving faxes, and has an Ethernet Read more:Panasonic
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How to Detect and Fix Problems with Laser Monochrome Printing 2007-12-13 04:33:06 This article covers common issues that rise during the use of most toner cartridges. For practical purposes the cartridge examined is made by Hewlett-Packard and there are reasons for that. First, this brand has long been a leader on printer market. Second, no one ever cancelled cartridge refilling which is widely used by small business and home offices.
What you see above is a perfect test page. Of course, it's a 99% merit of new original cartridge. Original makers of printer consumables have a smoothly running production and high-level quality management. Up to 2% of total output is tiny figure for rejection rate provided by major brands. However, that doesn't mean third-party manufacturers make cheap and inferior products. Compatible printer cartridges can also be reliable in use. It's all a matter of specific brand, it's quality management and, surely, the warranty.
Considering that cartridges get refilled, it come as no surprise that after 5-7 refills printing artifacts Read more:Printing
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HP Photosmart C8180: A Printer That Writes 2007-12-11 03:47:38 In several Asian countries, HP released a new multifunction printer, Photosmart
C8180.
While printing on CD or DVD is not something astonishing in modern MFP, ability to actually write, or record disks is only embodied in this new device.
Photosmart C8180 in an inkjet printer capable of copying and faxing. The printing speeds of the reach 33 pages per minute in color and 34 pages per minute in monochrome mode. The resolutions supported are 4800 x 1200 dpi for color and 1200 dpi in black and white mode. The scanning module features resolution of 4800 x 4800 dpi.
HP Photosmart C8180 sports 3,5-inch color LCD, supports printing and recording on disks from most common memory cards: CompactFlash, Memory Sticks, SDHC, SD/MMC, xD-Picture Card.
The price of the printer varies from country to country and makes up $500-600.
The support of reading from CD and DVD seems reasonable as these disk formats are wide-spread. But the idea of recording from one convenient like Read more:Printer
Results of “Cost-of-Ink-Per-Page” Analysis Favor Kodak Inks 2007-12-10 07:40:14 New cost-of-ink-per-page analysis of ink cartridges is a new way for customers to estimate their printing costs.
QualityLogic, a company providing quality assurance and control services, reported it had completed Cost-of-Ink-Per-Page (CoIPP) Analysis
for the Eastman Kodak
Company.
CoIPP Analysis uses cartridge cost and page-yield to calculate and compare the cost of ink required to print one page on Kodak EASYSHARE 5100, 5300 and 5500 All-in-One Printers to 11 competing printers.
Page-yield is determined by Certified Page-Yield Test Program, QualityLogic’s special software based on ISO standards determines. Cartridge prices in UK, France, and Germany were provided by IDC, a provider of independent market intelligence.
QualityLogic published a paper that you can view for details, but here is a briefly overview of what results of the analysis show.
Naturally, all three Kodak's printers demonstrate lowest cost of ink per page in monochrome, color and photo printing. For instance Read more:ldquo
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Now Prints Can Have Unlimited Size (+video) 2007-12-25 03:00:45 Students of Georgia Institute of Technology has created a robot named PrintBot that can print out images of virtually unlimited sizes. On their site, Instructibles.com, they published a detailed step-by-step printer creation guide.
The PrintBot uses a printhead from an Epson inkjet printer (as it was expected to use it, the printhead, not Epson) and Talcum powder instead of inks. The printer is said to support wireless remote control and is based on iRobot Create, which, in turn, is analog of iRobot Roomba vacuum cleaning robot.
This device can perform on almost any horizontal faces, and the creators suggest using it for sidewalk painting and advertisement.
I wonder if this idea can be transformed for document printing. For instance, instead of paper running through the printer, a smal printing bot creates an image or a text line-by-line on a sheet of paper. Just like living pen. One could give it a ‘handwriting’ (as far asthis term can be applied to a printer robot) style Read more:video
7 Most Expensive Printers 2007-12-24 14:02:30 7. Ricoh Aficio CL7300DT
The last position in the Top 7 of Most Expensive Printers belongs to the Ricoh Aficio CL7300DT which is a bit slower - only 35 pages per minute for full-color, and black & white. However it features much greater maximum paper capacity of 3,100 sheets and a duplexing unit. 200,000 pages per month is maximum duty cycle og this laser printer.
Equipped with standard 256MB of RAM and a hard drive, Ricoh Aficio CL7300DT has 100 Mbit Ethernet and USB 2.0 ports. Optional wireless (Wi-Fi and Bluetooth) and wire (gigabit Ethernet) are available. Additional features also include Sheet Finisher and Booklet Finisher.
Standard configuration of Aficio CL7300DT is priced "modest" $5,700
6. Epson Stylus Pro 10600
This creation of Epson engineers holds the fifth place in our top chart. This printer uses the UltraChrome, the ultimate ink technology, which delivers up to double the density of conventional Epson pigment ink for wider color range and better water resistan
Inkjet Printer Can Now Make Solar Cells 2008-03-11 09:57:25 US solar specialist Konarka Technologies has announced that it has successfully demonstrated an inkjet printer capable of manufacturing solar cells.
Rick Hess, president and CEO at Konarka, said that the demonstration represented a “major milestone” and proved that inkjet printers could provide a viable means of fabricating efficient solar cells with small are requirements.
The company [...] Read more:Printer
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Connecting A Printer to A Wireless Computer Network 2008-03-07 08:38:08 To continue the subject of connecting a printer to several computers, it’s worth to notice there may be another type of connection – wireless.
Let’s suppose you have a wireless network running in your home or office and you need to get a new printer up and running.
One way to do so is to connect the [...] Read more:Printer
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How Dye-based Inks Are Different from Pigment Inks 2008-03-05 04:31:29 …an attendee approached me with a question I’ve been asked a hundred times before. “Are these water-based inks or pigment inks?” I gave my usual response, “Well, both—actually,” then launched into an explanation about ink formulation theory, the history of inkjet printing, and the correct application for ink types. He proceeded to tell me I [...]
DYMO DiskPainter Spins And Paints 2008-03-03 09:26:48 DYMO is a company selling embossers, hand-held label makers, desktop label makers and other stuff that helps people organize and identify their home, office or worksite.
What is interesting for us is that DYMO connects to the printing world via its newly announced DiscPainter. You may rest assured that this compact disc printer is “optimized for [...] Read more:Spins
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Connecting a Printer to Several Computers 2008-02-29 07:58:19 Many people now have two or more computers at home and you maybe one of those. As many other people, you have only one printer, but you’re not the only one who wants to use it. What you may do in this situation? One solution is to visit a local computer store and buy another [...] Read more:Printer
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How to Choose A Printer for Your Office 2008-02-26 08:30:28 What kind of printer to select for you office depends of how big that office is and here is why. The size of the office demands same volumes of printing: two-person business hardly prints 500 pages a month, while a corporation that occupies a whole building may produce thousands pages a week.
So, the first question [...] Read more:Printer
20 Years of HP DeskJet 2008-02-21 07:56:19 This is an event we just couldn’t leave unnoticed. Yesterday Hewlett-Packard celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the launch of its first DeskJet printer. First introduced in 1988, the HP DeskJet became a corner stoner of HP’s steady ascension as a major player in the emerging industry of personal printing.
It is HP that has developed the [...] Read more:Years
Epson Adds Security to Laser Printers 2008-02-19 20:59:31 Epson has announced an extreme solution to the problem of users who print sensitive documents to network queues but then forget to pick them up — a printer that requires a smartcard before it will print.
Documents to be printed using the EpsonNet Authentication Print system are first stored on a server much as they would [...] Read more:Epson
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Xerox 7142 Wide-format Printer 2008-02-15 20:36:59 Xerox has increased the size of its portfolio of wide-format
printers with the release of the 7142 color wide-format printer that delivers high-speed and cost-effective printing, and the 6050A wide-format black-and-white printer for producing construction plans and engineering renderings.
Specifically designed for the computer-aided design (CAD) and geographic information systems (GIS) markets, the Xerox [...] Read more:Printer
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