Factors That Affect The Service Life of A Laser Printer’s Imaging Drum Unit

There are indeed several factors that might affect the life of a printer’s drum, such as the type of document, media used, room temperature and so on. The average or estimated service life of a drum unit varies and is not definite. It may range from 10,000 to 30,000 or more depending on the level of printing it is mainly designed for.

Looking at the product’s packaging, there should be an estimated number of prints that a particular drum could deliver or produce. For example a new DR210CL drum unit can print approximately up to 15,000 pages at the least. But in fact, the actual figures may significantly vary by nearly half or less than the estimate.

Manufactures have no control over the usage of every user. Hence, factors that may diminish the actual service life of a certain drum cannot be guaranteed. At least the figures they have provided for the product details can be your basis to determine the possible amount of prints you can squeeze out of it.

Another thing is that, laser toner cartridges directly affect the condition of the drum. Notice the instances when you installed a faulty or damaged replacement. These factors can turn your imaging drum unit obsolete in the earliest and most unexpected time. Say the toners leak, wouldn’t that lead to problems that may caused issues with the drum. Same with a faulty cartridge, its corresponding drum slot should be able to easily detect it as new one. However, since it is damaged for some reason it’ll become unrecognizable. If this thing happens again and again it could also lead to serious drum unit errors that can piss you off.

The temperature where the printer is installed and also the maximum allowable operating temperature of the machine are very essential to optimize the service life of a drum. Do you know that each laser printer, no matter what brand or make, is designed to work at a certain degree that is matched with its consumables? Hence, even if you try to fit a cartridge or drum on a different model, it may surely fit in but how sure are you that it is more likely compatible for it.

If you think you already know a few about your printer, like how it works and some information about its necessary supplies. You better think again, because small details like this are very important to know yet you’re currently not aware. Taking good care of your printer’s supplies is as important as maintaining the good condition of the machine itself.

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Direct Mobile Printing Between Your iOS Device and a Brother Printer

There are many apps that you may consider if you want to try printing through your iPhone, iPad or any iOS-powered devices. Some are very strict and specific which will only work for a certain printer brand manufacturer, while others are considerably generic.

In this case, we feature Brother’s iPrint&Scan app which is absolutely free and can be downloaded from the Apple App Store. Using this application lets you print any supported files or documents, even photos from your iOS mobile devices to any WiFi-enabled Brother printer over a network.

Printing via an iOS mobile device is a bit tricky, but not because the process is kind of difficult to be considered. It’s just that users will have to rely on third-party apps to get things done. As mentioned there are many of them especially developers that can help you with your mobile printing problem, however there’s a cost you need to pay for such service. Most of them are not free to download, yet the experience and technology you get are somehow on par from free downloadable apps.

See the link for the full list of compatible Brother Inkjet and Laser printers that support the iPrint&Scan app. Updates may have been released since it was introduced to the App Store and it seems that the information found in their website are recent enough. There’s even a link which redirects you to iTunes Apple Store where you can download the app.

With Brother iPrint&Scan, you can do more than just print your files, there are additional perks such as follows:

• If you’re familiar on using iTunes file sharing, you can print saved documents from your device through utilizing it.

• Clipboard print lets you print images or text in a screenshot format using an iPhone or iPad.

• Scan either via the flatbed or ADF, and then share it onto email.

• Print files up to a maximum of 10MB or at least 20 pages from Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

If you think Inkjet All-In-One printers are the ones only compatible for this app, even laser type units support the iPrint&Scan. LED-based printers won’t be left behind that in fact there are these three MFC models which are known for being similar in features. The 9130CW, 9330CDW and 9340CDW are capable of mobile printing and WiFi Direct enabled. On a side note, they share the same supplies and accessories including the TN221 toner cartridges and such. To use the app, download it first from the App Store and once done, run it and it will automatically search for devices present on your current wireless network.

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Which Should You Prefer: Color LaserJet or Inkjet Printers?

Color laser printers aren't too common to use mainly for colored printing, normally we prefer inkjets as they’re probably more suitable for such purpose. However, if there’s an occasional need to print graphic or image on top of regular monochrome printing, that’s the point where we can consider having the rival of inkjet instead.

Inkjets Over LaserJets

There are downsides whichever you may choose, like for example ink types are typically slower compared to lasers. But you shouldn't look at it as either one is more advantageous than the other. Take note that both of these machines are intended for certain uses that only one of them can perform effectively. These dilemmas are just part of the few reasons why making a decision on which type of printer to choose has been a bit troublesome for others. Those who are not aware, or probably care less about such information are either a personal home user, or just in need of an urgent printer.

Indeed, printing documents with images or graphics is considerably not a forte of laser printers. That is something that inkjets are more than capable of providing the best results. But to make it fair, developers might have thought of giving the lasers their own expertise. Any office or business environment wouldn't debate on this matter that laser type printers or laserjets in general are faster and more efficient on printing text-only or documents with little to less graphic.

Factors to Consider

Engine speed is also a factor which they rival, although nowadays certain inkjet models are capable of matching their speeds over laserjets. If you know a little history about their evolution, laser types are normally faster thus increasing production and throughput in any office or business where they find their places. An inkjet printer on the other hand, is more suitable for home or personal printing due to slow printing speed and several issues. But gone are those days, since our today’s level of technology particularly in the print industry obliterated all these hindrances. Making it fair for ink and laser type printers to deserve a place on different environments, whether for personal use or not.

Cost-per-page, regardless of which type you use will always be an issue especially to users who are kind of familiar on how printer manufacturers make their businesses grow. To shed some light on the matter, it is not their printers that give them the most of their profits, but rather the supplies they sell. For example a Brother printer that uses color TN315 toner cartridges would cost around $500 more or less. But considering the recurring expense of purchasing four replacements over and over again, it will make more sense why printer nowadays are inexpensive compared before.

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The Best Wide Format Printers That Are Also Good for Standard Paper Size Printing

Long before wide-format printers emerged in the print industry, there were basically two commonly known kinds of machine used for printing – compact and large. One thing is common between these two, and that is the print functionality, regardless if its monochrome or color, multifunction or not.

Traditional large-scale printing is covered by separate machines that are mainly intended to produce such materials or as what we called them as tabloid media. Over-sized sheets like for example an 11x17-inch paper or posters, were not supported by conventional printers before. If you are familiar with plotters, they’re basically printers as well, albeit they are made only for wide sizes. But nowadays, these large or outsize media can now also fit on tabloid printers that are capable of either wide-format or compact printing.

If you have this occasional need to print tabloid or poster-sized documents such as 11x17-inch or 24x36-inch, these models can do it right for you. We’ve picked two models from three different manufacturers in case you have preferences.

• Brother MFC-J6920DW

• Brother MFC-J4510DW

• Epson WorkForce WF-7520

• Epson Expression Photo XP-950 AIO

• HP Officejet 7610 Wide-Format eAIO

• HP Laserjet Pro 700 M712DN

Those two Brother printers are inkjets with multi-functionality, and capable of single-sheet 11x17-inch media printing. Epson’s photo printers particularly the ones from Expression series are known for the quality of prints they can produce. Although you better ready your wallet for some high-priced ink cartridges. HP in the competition was able to give a multifunction inkjet and mono laserjet which are both capable of printing tabloid-size documents.

If you’re not after the quality of output, you can spare the inkjet units and consider the only laser one from HP. However, its snag is that it can only provide monochrome prints. It’s kind of disappointing but come to think of it, black-and-white poster isn’t that bad at all. Plus, you will only have to replace one cartridge (M172DN uses HP CF214A toner), unlike those inkjet especially the Epson Photo XP-950 that requires six ink cartridges, and yes you read it right.

Cost-per-page is a factor you should consider when looking for a tabloid printer since the percent of coverage it takes to cover a wide sheet of media is far too different from letter and legal-sized sheets.

Collectively, these printers are referred to as wide-format and come along with big expenses not unless it is just for occasional needs. Since the ones we provided from the list above are also capable of multifunctionality and small-sized printing, purchasing one will make a good investment.

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What to Know About Canon’s Single Cartridge System

The All-In-One technology that Canon applied and is still using up to now to produce their printer toner cartridges was developed back in the year 1982. It is called all-in-one since they were able to combine the toner and drum into one. The photosensitive drum, charging unit, cleaner as well as the developing unit, are all incorporated with the toner. That is how you simply describe it.

Unlike conventional laser printer consumables, the toner cartridge is separate from the imaging drum unit. This causes the expense of most users to incline in the long run, compared to those who have been using Canon printers with single cartridge technology, or also know as Single Cartridge System. Such innovation leads to much simpler maintenance of the unit and its supplies, as well as aid in the recycling process of the product.

According to Canon

Single Cartridge System was developed to make their printers capable of producing high-quality prints once the technology is incorporated into the unit’s consumables particularly toners and drums. These cartridges are distinguished as easy-to-replace since users will only have to remove and install four replacements instead of eight. With the toner and drum combined, the quality of the result is retained at a more précised and solid level. It also eliminates the need to warehouse separate supplies, which is practically an advantage on the manufacturer’s end.

Printers that incorporate Single Cartridge System

The LBP6000 series and LBP7000 series are two of the most known lineup of color laser printers that use this technology. We’re not very certain but the MF8000 series also incorporates the same system for its cartridges. It’s one of the possible factors that lead to creating compact-sized laser imageCLASS units that manage to house four consumables with its midget build.

If you want to see an example of a toner that incorporates the Canon Single Cartridge system, look for Canon 118 laser toner images on the web. Those are replacement supplies for the models aforementioned. While for the complete list of printers, we may suggest you check it directly on their main website: www.usa.canon.com

Trivia

Do you know that not only their toners have a special system? Canon also developed the Compact Long-Life Drum Cartridge System especially for E-Drums. An additional layer of coating was created to further enhance the durability and life of the product while keeping it compact at a lower cost. Soon we’ll have to discuss more of it on our new post but for now let’s leave your curiosity a bit half empty.

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What To Know About The Canon Easy Scroll Wheel?

A Little History

One of the great innovations added in the features of a printer which totally standout is the touch screen LCD. Before this piece of technology popped out, old versions of printing machines are only equipped with mono-backlit screens, while other doesn’t have any totally. Users back then are satisfied with it, but then the emergence of units with color LCD came out in the market and dominated the industry. Innovators weren’t still happy that they continued working on how to improve this component. Then, finally they introduced an LCD which is not only wide, colored and vibrant, but is also intuitive to touch commands.

Canon Easy-Scroll-Wheel

Now there’s another feature that many of us are not totally aware of its existence. Probably because we don’t have a unit that is equipped with such, or more likely we just don’t care. But this is something that we couldn’t just ignore especially for us people working in this industry.

What are we talking about here? Actually, it was not introduced just this year that in fact it’s been existing for a couple of years now so it’s not something new to be considered. The introduction of this small interface came along on the released of third generation PIXMA printer series which include the MP600. But it can also be found on some recent imageCLASS models such as the MG8450C - a color laser printer that uses Canon 117 cartridges. This high-end technology is known as the Easy-Scroll-Wheel controller which became part of the main control panel of a printer’s user interface.

Intuitive Access

The Easy-Scroll-Wheel is basically coupled with the touch-screen LCD. It works by simply rotating the wheel to your desired feature base on what’s available on the panel’s screen. The center key serves as the select button, while the surrounding black part works like the iPod’s click-wheel. Users can select and execute a function by browsing their fingers through the wheel, while keeping their eyes on the LCD. Sounds familiar? Yeah, because it is indeed similar to the technology used in iPod music players.

It’s a new style of how users can use the control panel in a much enjoyable way. It’s pretty easy to use, no complicated stuffs to think of at all, you just have to run your fingers on it like you’re using a mouse pointer.

Manufacturer’s Description

The Easy-Scroll-Wheel is a groundbreaking user interface developed by Canon to make the various functions of AIO printers easy and fun for anyone to use. Users can freely control the unit by gliding a finger around the wheel. The screen is linked to the wheel such that when it is spun, the menus revolve in the same way you move your fingers.

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Canon’s Select Color Laser Printers with Superior Color Imaging Technology

The term superior had been associated to so many things and that includes Canon’s Color Imaging technology. Could we say it is indeed the most outstanding in the imaging industry? Well how can we say so, we haven’t tried enough of units to determine and prove that matter. However, we can at least feature some of the color laser printers that Canon claimed to have the said innovation.

If you want to find out how many Canon printers have this technology, you can use the search box at the top right part of their site and use the keyword “Color Imaging Technology”. It isn’t the normal way, actually we’re not even aware of how it should be done, but that’s how we do it. You’ll find 1 to 15 pages of 806 results, but not all of those are guaranteed to have the said feature, probably 2-3% at the least.

To narrow it down, we chose a few printers which you can even count with your two hands or probably just one, that feature the SCI technology. We’ll be using that abbreviated term only for this post, so don’t misinterpret it or accuse us of anything. Again, to simply put it, we just want to shorten the term mainly for this post. 

Now these are the chosen printer models from Canon’s wide range of all-in-one and non-AIO machines that feature the SCI technology.

From the imageCLASS/i-SENSYS:

MF8080CW, MF8030CN, MF8050CN – These three come from the same line and mainly use Canon 116 laser toner cartridges.

MF8350CDN and MF8380CDW – These two are like brothers and both use Canon 118 laser toner cartridges.

MF9220CDN and MF9280CDN – Printers from this line particularly those with model number that starts with MF92 are using CRG 111 color toner cartridges.

Why do we include their supported supplies? That is simply to point out that those are laser type printers. The PIXMA series actually uses inks instead of toners, and the counterpart of Canon’s Superior Color Imaging in inkjets is referred to as FINE Cartridge System. We’ll probably talk about it as well soon so just wait for our future updates.

As described by Canon, Superior Color Imaging Technology promises stunning print results that look like the original. Vibrant and tone-on-tone clarity both sound perfect for a laser printer that is capable of producing printouts having the exact shade, hue and density of colors. If this traits are what you are looking for, those models we provided above are your best bet.

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An Inkjet Printer That Requires No Paper Trays: Stack Printer by Mugi Yamamoto

Inkjet printers are essentially useful when it comes to printing photo, images and all other sorts of colored documents. However, these type of machines rarely get an ample of media capacity to hold a massive amount of paper sheets or other media types. Unlike lasers that can support more than two optional trays to maximize the unit's paper capacity, inkjets are typically limited to hold up to150-250 sheets. Well basically, they're not intended for high-speed and high-volume printing, but rather leaning towards providing high-quality graphic printouts.

Photo Credits : MugiYamamoto.com

But, what if you can have an inkjet printer that can take a stack of media up to a thousand sheets or more? Yes, I actually said stack, a pile is also an appropriate term to use for this one. A typical printer, whether that's an inkjet or a laser, uses either a tray or a drawer to hold media. But after Mugi Yamamoto, an Industrial Designer from Switzerland came up with a peculiar yet outstanding printer concept, things will rather change extremely when you meet the Stack printer.

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New Compact Printers From Epson Allows Mobile Printing Even Without A Wireless Router

Experience Epson's Claria Home Ink with their newest lineup of small-in-one photo inkjet printers. The company's latest Wi-Fi direct enabled home printers that allow users to directly connect their devices to the machine without the presence of a router.

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Fold, Clip and Change Your Laser Printer's Paper Cover With Samsung Origami

Compact printers are very much preferred nowadays especially by most individuals working at home, or someone who just wants to have a personal printer. Mainly to minimize the amount of space that will be consumed by the device. Printers built with smaller dimensions are basically for low-level printing capacity, since they are not suppose to handle heavy amount of paper loads.

Compact Laserjet Printers

Another advantage of having a compact printer aside from the fact that it's essentially small, users can easily move the device from one place to another simply because it's lighter. But what if you can have a laser printer that is more than just compact and lighter, but foldable as well. Well actually not the printer itself but its chassis or cover. Has anyone ever fold a laserjet whether it's equipped with laser toner cartridge or not, there's no one right? However, these printers are so eco-friendly that their chassis were actually made out of recycled cardboard materials.

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Make Random Predictions With The Fortune-Telling Printer

Are you familiar with fortune cookies? It's just a plain crispy cookie made out of usual ingredients we commonly used for baking. What's special about it is that once you take a bite or just pop it open, a piece of paper wrapped inside it will tell you some fortune. But who knows if it's specially meant for you, whether or not, there's no big deal.

It originated in California around 1918, so Americans be proud. However, the nationality of the one who fortunately invented it was Chinese, but that doesn't make things less true that it's a U.S. product. While that first history happened in Los Angeles, there's this another history that relates to fortune cookies. One story spread out that in the year 1914, a Japanese gardener served cookies which he baked personally with thank you notes inside. Well here's the story behind his thank-you cookies. The current mayor at his time hates Japanese, and since he's one, he got fired from his job, but then eventually reinstated after the mayor was replaced. As a sign of gratitude, he then baked cookies with wrapped notes inside to thank everyone who visits the Tea Garden where he worked at.

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Two New Monochrome Laser Printers From Dell Targetting SOHO Businesses

Today's post will give you a brief introduction to Dell's most recent laser printers which were released first week of this month, June 04,2013 to be exact. Both printers are now available in the market, sporting decent specs and set of functionality suitable for SOHO market. The two models offer monochrome laser printing technology which requires a single black laser toner cartridge equipped with a fuser that works for a lifetime. One of their notable feature is the support for Dell's Printer Easy WiFi Installer.

Dell B1165nfw Mono MFP

As a multifunction printer the B1165nfw supports basic functionality such as printing, scanning, copying and fax. It's a good thing they included fax capability with this one, considering that most mono laser printers in its range lacks the said feature. Its built is simply elegant, the chassis has nice curves and edges in matte finish black coating. There's also this adjustable calculator-like control panel installed from its far right edge.

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Google Rolls Out Cloud Print Service And Driver For Windows OS

Google finally launched the official Cloud Print Service and Driver for Windows OS. Although you might have used a third-party tool to allow printer sharing with your Windows PC, Google doesn't claim any support for it. Google only works in Chrome on Chrome OS, but with the update the service is rather not limited to Chrome alone. It is now compatible with Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 OS given that Windows XPS Essentials Pack is installed on the PC.

Since the emergence of cloud-print-supported printers, such apps and tools appeared offering cloud printing services. Google knows the demand of their customers, hence they developed such improvement to offer better experience and show some boost with their product. Google Cloud Print allows anyone to share printers with others and virtually print from anywhere, as long as there's an Internet connection.

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Erasable Toners From Toshiba With Their e-STUDIO 306LP/RD30 MFP Laser Printer

This thing isn't new to many, actually there are few devices that support or perform the same technology where prints can be erased through heat processing. If you're familiar or have heard of Pilot's FriXion pen that uses thermo-sensitive gel ink formula, it is where they similarly derived the idea of creating an MFP printer that is capable of using erasable toners to print. The company behind this innovation is none other Toshiba America Business Solutions. To introduce a new era of printing, the company developed the e-STUDIO 306LP/RD30 multifunction printer.

There's nothing much special with the printer itself aside that it functions similarly of par with most MFP laser printers in its range. However, the special feature of this device can't be found to any printers in the market nowadays, as far as I know. A specially formulated toner that is certainly unique, as the output may it be text, graphics or images can be totally erased from a sheet of paper. The good news is that the printer doesn't require any special type of print paper to make the process possible.

Through this technology, or it's more appropriate to say, through the RD30 printer's special printing system, offices may get a lot of benefits from it, not to mention the huge cut to their overall printing expense. Since regular printer papers are mainly supported, there's no additional cost to worry about. Furthermore, the e-STUDIO 306LP/RD30 MFP works exactly like any other multifunction printers.

Unfortunately, getting the printer alone won't suffice cause it's a system, which means that you also need to have the Eraser. It's more appropriate to call it that way, since it literally functions as an eraser. The whole process goes like this, print your files or any documents to the printer equipped with laser toner cartridges filled with specially erasable toner, then if you want to erase the printout from the sheet, you'll have to feed the paper to the Eraser and wait until it shoots out the cleanse sheet. Well, since there's no technology that is free from glitch, believe me that's true, even if it actually removed the prints from the paper by erasing the toner, text and marks can still be illuminated, but not legible enough.

One more thing to know is that the printer is not capable of creating coloured prints, as of the moment, although they're working on it to enhanced the machine to be able to produce printouts in full color. The e-STUDIO 306LP/RD30 MFP printer can only print in blue, hence it's not a monochrome either. According to news, Toshiba is expected to released the system before this year ends.

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Top 7 Printers With The Highest Maintenance Cost

Printer maintenance cycles usually consume an amount of ink or toner, much more than what you have used for printing files and documents. An example of printer maintenance is the print head cleaning, this literally consumes ink from the cartridges. Unless you're suspecting that the nozzles are not delivering enough ink and you're sure about the dots, faint and white lines are due to a clogged print head, don't waste ink from running a print head cleaning. Also, a user may confirm the problem by running the Nozzle Check Utility software provided with the printer, this will help save inks. Take note that it's not proper to run any of these two utility software particularly the Head Cleaning and Nozzle Check, while a file is being printed, otherwise, all files in queue along with the file in progress can be damaged.

Approximately, about 10-25% of inks from the cartridges are wasted each time you clean the print heads. This happens since the cleaning cycle needs to be repeated depending on the test result. Usually, one or two trials may not work, some users have tried a dozen times but never did resolve it.

While there are instances, but not yet proven, wherein the printer after not being used for like a day, suddenly works perfectly as if nothing happen and the clogged print head problem disappear. This can be explained by the fact that inks commonly get dried, turning the printer ON for a moment, run a print head cleaning once, then turn it OFF, and after several hours the inks soften inside the cartridges. Hence, the next day you check the printer, even you don't run any maintenance cycle, it will work just fine.

Here's a trivia related to this post, HP printers are built with two general inkjet print head designs, these are the Integrated Print Head (IPH) and Individual Ink Cartridges (IIC). Either of these designs, when hp inkjet cartridges replacements are installed in the printer, a start-up routine and calibration process will run which also eat up some inks.

From a test conducted by Consumer Reports, these are the printers with the highest maintenance cost :

• HP Officejet Pro 8600
• Lexmark OfficeEdge Pro4000
• HP Photosmart 7520
• Epson Expression Photo XP-850
• Canon Pixma MX922
• HP Photosmart 6520
• Canon iP7220, iP7250 

If you happened to own any printer from the list above, it's either you switched to a more efficient and budget friendly print device, or you'll keep it and will avoid running maintenance cycle as much as possible.

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The Xerox Wide Format IJP 2000 Features Caldera GrandRIP+ Software

Xerox has developed a new printer and was released just recently, it is expected to provide a print solution for large-scale printing such as posters, signs and banners, that is the Xerox Wide Format IJP 2000. There's a bit of increased in speed which is impressive enough since print speed is quite an essential factor in terms of wide-format printing. It targets the graphic market industry with its compelling features.

According to Dustin Graupman, Vice President of Xerox Inkjet Business, "The IJP 2000 breaks the mold in terms of speed and brings a huge competitive advantage to our customers. Part of the challenge of wide-format jobs is they can create a significant speed bump in the work process—and profitability. That’s why we’ve designed an uninterrupted operation right into the printer."

Nothing much of details to provide at the time of writing this post, but we'll keep you inform with a few specs and features that the Xerox Wide Format IJP 2000 has to offer. Aside from its notable print speed which is rated at up to 4,520 square feet/420 square meters per hour, that's about 40 times faster compared to a typical wide-format printer. It's also equipped with stationary print heads allowing the media to move under the machine's five print heads with just one single pass.

Fast speed topped with quality color resolution, plus Xerox ink cartridges with inks that dry within seconds instantly, which makes the IJP 2000 highly suitable for full-color graphic prints and photo banners that require a combination of precision and vibrancy.

The Xerox Wide Format IJP 2000 runs with Caldera GrandRIP+ software which keeps the whole system running at full blast while keeping the print jobs uninterrupted. To those who have no idea bout the Caldera GrandRIP+, it's one of the industry's leading wide-format workflow software that's very easy and efficient to use and is capable of color matching that creates a consistent print quality.

It is expected to hit London at the FESPA event which will run this June 25-29, and will also be seen in Chicago at PRINT13 specifically at the Xerox Stand Q39N. For more news about inkjets, laserjets or even print consumables like ink cartridges and laser toner cartridges, you may browse our site for a pack of daily updates in the Print Industry.

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OKI Data Americas Will Be Part Of The 34th Annual ISTE Conference

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference is almost here, and along with this big event which will be held at the Henry  B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio Texas, OKI Data Americas confirm its participation in the said event. The company affirmed that they will be demonstrating brand new colour and monochrome print devices that feature enhanced mobile printing capabilities and education-oriented printing solutions. The new product list includes both single-function and multifunction devices which are customized to fit the settings for the K-12 Education Market. It's also been said that these printers deliver cost-effective printing topped with versatile functionalities.

According to OKI's recent press release regarding its participation in the 34th Annual ISTE Conference, the following print devices will be featured:

• C831­­­­ - a new tabloid/A3 color printer that combines a powerful feature set with fast print speeds and banner printing capabilities in a compact device that is ideal for demanding small workgroups.
• MC562w - a new, small workgroup color MFP that offers large paper capacity, fast print speeds, duplex printing and copying, wireless capability, and high definition color technology.
• C711WT - a desktop A4 digital color printer featuring white toner in a CMYW four-color configuration that delivers sharp, white output that brings high-quality printing capabilities in-house.
• MC770 - a new, mid-workgroup A4 color MFP that combines high-speed output, high print quality, enhanced feature sets, and OKI's smart Extendable Platform that supports an expanding suite of OKI solutions and meets demands of busy work environments.
• OKI MotionPrint - a solution that allows users to print documents from compatible mobile devices to specific OKI printers and MFPs.

Additional products will be demonstrated at the ISTE 2013 Conference OKI Booth (#6287), for more information you may click the link above for the main news.

This is a great endeavor for OKI Data Americas, to develop a new set of products that lean towards providing printing solutions mainly for educational purposes. Schools and organizations must be so rev up to check out all those education technology that OKI will be bringing in this year's ISTE tradeshow. Students should also be engaged on such events like these especially or the young ones who aren't that familiar to use print devices. Also, it could be a great chance to partly imply the essence and advantages of practicing less printing. Though OKI can guarantee the cost-efficiency of their products, supplies and consumables such inks and laser toner cartridges tends to bring a costly burden.

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Monitor And Get Updated With Your Printer's Cartridges Using HP SureSupply App

Have you experienced a time when you're about to print a bulk of paper works or business documents, but then you're surprised with a message from your printer telling it's out of ink? Nowadays this problem can be prevented or possibly avoided, thru features and apps supported by most latest printers in the market. One of which is the HP SureSupply or formerly known as HP eSupplies app. It is a freeware software, developed by one of the tech-giants in the print industry which is none other than the Hewlett-Packard. A tool primarily for print devices which delivers the most convenient way of monitoring and buying supplies for your printer.

It works in several extreme purposes such as monitoring the state, condition and level of inks/toners currently equipped in a printer. Any changes from the cartridges will be sent to the user as an alert, letting you know if in case you need to get replacements. If you prefer online shopping, this app will serve as your virtual secretary by not just simply walking you through the process but instead the tool itself will fill out the necessary requirements like printer and cartridge model, and transmit it over the net. Delivery will take about 3 days upon successful placement of orders. Well, if you know some retailers near your place, but if you still want to check the other stores around, SureSupply can give you a hand, it can serve as a tracker that will give you information regarding the stores and authorized retailers near you including the price of their products. Compare their prices and accessibility, so you can decide which one's the best.

What are the advantages a user may benefit from using the app? Be alerted as early as you can be, so you wouldn't be surprise once the printer prompts a message about low-level or empty cartridge, cause you're already prepared. Never experienced print delays with HP's SureSupply app, it's clever, manageable and very easy to use. Plus, users don't need to keep a note of the printer's cartridge model, and if ever you need it, the app can send you all necessary information regarding the cartridges which includes its part number or model. It works with iOS and Android devices by sending a push message from the printer to the user's device containing updates.

Now with HP SureSupply application monitoring your printer's consumables like laser toner cartridges and ink cartridges can now be more than easy, with such accuracy and convenience.The said app can be downloaded thru either of these options : directly visit HP site to get the application, or check it from the wide list of Android apps on Google Play, or you may also check it from CNET or Yahoo downloads.

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Fuji Xerox Unveiled DocuWide 2055 (Model-NP) A1 Size Capable Printer

To expand means to launch new products, with the attempt to bring back what has been lost, Fuji Xerox - subsidiary of Fujifilm Holdings  Corporation, is in a steady of introducing brand-new printer equipments in the Print Industry.

Practically targeting the market of large-size printing, Fuji Xerox released their newest print device that offers high-speed and high-capacity features. The DocuWide 2055, as its model name implies, is a wide format digital printer that supports printing large-scale media such as A1 sheets. It can shoot out two-page widespread Japan-size newspaper at a rated print speed of 7ppm (pages/sheets per minute).

Aside from its high-speed key-feature, the DocuWide 2055 has a noteworthy print resolution quoted at 600x600dpi (dots per inch). Additionally, this device can automatically detect the size and type of print data from which it uses the said information to select the appropriate paper/media sheet to print on. With the printer's auto-loading system, things are simply automated inside the machine, from loading and cutting of sheets.

It requires rolls of paper media, and can hold two different types and sizes of rolls at the same time. The user should set the edge of the paper material to the roller, and everything will work automatically. Considering it's unique auto-loading system, user intervention is partly minimized by excluding the need to manually change the rolls just to fit with the print data.

Depending on the user's way of installing the device, the printer's output mechanism adapts with the environment by supporting both front and back option of catching printouts. While replacing or refilling the paper rollers and laser toner cartridges can be done from the machine's front. The printer's control panel is actually located at its side, hence the power button and keys lie at the far right-edge of the device.

According to Fuji-Xerox's News Released, the DocuWide 2055 (Model-NP) will be sold in Japan at the moment, and will soon start its sale by last week of this month probably June 24.

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Xerox Making A Transition By Offering Technology Services

 

With the slow-moving growth of Xerox businesses particularly in the print industry, the company is kind of shifting to provide better technology services as a workaround regarding the decline in their printer business revenue. Services to be offered include bill processing, managing toll systems, document management, IT outsourcing and health care programs, which is now covering a larger fraction of the company's business.

From a recent release, Xerox's business revenue somewhat fell by 9% in its first quarter. However, the company is said to expect a staggering revenue from its document technology business in its second quarter. Xerox Corporation fondly expects by the year 2017, to generate about 2/3 of its revenues from the company's services division.

If the demand for business printers and copiers continues to decline, it will greatly affect Xerox's revenues. For a fact, the company's printing business generated a revenue that is 8.7% less compared to its previous score. Behind all this circumstances, Xerox Corporation still has a good grip that the company will meet its full-year earnings. Xerox is renovating itself by partly keeping its printing business in the bench, and making a transition to switch its focus to wider services.

It can't be helped, Xerox is not the only printer manufacturer that has been affected by the market transition. Consumers are now accessing their files and documents through several options like cloud storage, even tablets and smartphones play a big role in these changes. That instead of having those files printed, customers are just keeping a soft copy in their tablets so they can view it anytime needed. Hence, the need for a printer equipment decreased in the recent years.

No wonder why some of the big names in the print industry are optimizing their products to better suit the demands of their customers. Epson for example, is switching to refillable ink reservoirs to provide cost-efficient printing solution, while other manufacturers end up selling their printing business. Maybe if these companies just lowered the price of their printer products such as laser toner cartridges, ink cartridges, and other supplies, they could have avoided such downfall.

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