Dell has announced today three new printers, the 5130cdn, the 7130cdn and the 3330dn. Out of those three the Dell 5130cdn seems to stand out as the world’s fastest single function letter-size color printer available to date. But let’s look at each of them before we draw any conclusions.
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Canon have, in the US at least (there’s no signs of it in the UK right now), released their new Canon Easy Photo-Print iPhone/iPod Touch app allowing iPhone/iPod Touch owners to print images via wireless connectivity on Canon’s PIXMA WiFi enabled printers.
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Although many gadgets these days seem to be getting a touchscreen, I’ll have to agree that I never expected a printer to feature a touch sensitive display, and that’s what Lexmark’s new T656dne does. With features borrowed from the award-winning Lexmark T650 series, the new T656dne is not just the world’s first touch screen laser printer (they say) but also a serious performer for those in need for high-volume monochrome printing.

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Having posted a couple of days ago about the Sony DPP-F700 Digital Photo Frame, which comes with integrated color printer allowing you to gain hardcopies of your photos, we now have this Exemode Yashica DVF828 digital photo frame that comes complete with onboard scanner allowing you to add images to the frame’s memory directly from hardcopies.
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In an age where digital photo frames are increasingly offering expanded capabilities way outside their original remit such as net access and PMP capabilities Sony have recently unveiled a digital frame, known as the Sony DPP-F700, that won’t just serve to showcase your digital imagery (oh no, that’s just so yesterday) but, thanks to an integrated Dye-Sublimation printer, will allow you to gain color hardcopies to keep, savour or just pass on to others-  to perhaps press home that, yes, your holiday way outclassed theirs or your kid is cuter than theirs or, just perhaps to prove you’re your digiframe is…well, you get the picture.
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When it comes to scanners, at least the flatbed variety, there is one thing the all have in common; they take up a ton of desktop real estate. Couple the scanner with a printer and you might as well buy yourself another desk to go along with them. On the bright side, you do have the option of getting one of the many all-in-one devices that combine the functionality of a printer, scanner, copier, and fax into one unit. Convenience? Yes. Small? Not a chance. So what if you are just an occasional scanner with a small office who doesn’t really need a full-sized scanner? That’s where the KS810-Plus Imaging Keyboard from KeyScan comes in. (...)
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Brother have added to the HL-3000 and MFC-9000 series lineup with three new multifunction printers and two color laser printers, most of which are targeting small businesses. Based on the same LED engine, these are Brother’s first color laser offerings for that market.

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We all know how the printer companies make their money. It’s all about the refills, right? They lure you in with promises of great print quality, wireless connectivity, little, shiny LCD screens, and super-fast print speeds and the next thing you know you have to take out a second mortgage on your house just to keep the thing loaded with ink cartridges. At least that’s how it used to be before KODAK launched their own line of inkjet printers. They hit the market right where it hurt, in the ink. Their latest AiO printers, the ESP 3250 and 5250, build on this low-cost ink platform while offering up great print quality and a few other tasty morsels. (...)
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Canon has made its foray into the world of desktop scanners for Macs with the introduction of two new high-speed business scanners. The DR-2510M and the DR-2010M are both new additions to Canon’s imageFORMULA DR series, and the first in the series to include TWAIN driver that makes them compatible to work with Macs.

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Canon has been around in the world of personal printers for years. They are well known for their hearty product line and affordable options for both the home and small business user. Today Canon USA announced the launch of two new PIXMA Wireless Photo All-In-One (AIO) printers, one new PIXMA Inkjet Business Printer with PgR technology and a SELPHY Compact Photo Printer with a new voice guidance system. The versatility of these machines provides users with many options, whether working in the home office to print business documents or putting together an album of the latest family vacation. (...)
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I have always been a fan of Epson printers. I can still remember how cool I felt back in 1994 when I bought their first-ever Epson Stylus Color inkjet printer. I paid almost $400 for it back then (ach) but the quality was amazing. No one else had 720 dpi back then. Epson America continues to drive printing innovation with its new line of Artisan all-in-ones – the Artisan 710 and Artisan 810 – designed for everything from creative projects to afterhours work from home. Both of the new offerings feature built-in Wi-Fi and Ethernet networking, automatic two-sided printing, blazing fast performance, and a host of unique features. (...)
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The Epson WorkForce line of high-end inkjet printers has brought forward a group of solid performers over the last several years and their latest introductions into the line are sure to prove the same. Both the new WorkForce 610 and WorkForce 1100 will feature Epson’s stellar print quality technology and wireless networking capabilities along with eco-friendly recyclability and Energy Star certification. (...)
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If you’re one of those who’d like to get some of their best digital photos on paper, then Epson would like a word with you. Designed to bring in PC-free printing to the masses, the new Epson Stylus Photo PX650 is an all-in-one high-quality photo printer that promises better quality prints than labs can produce.

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Having only just posted concerning Canon’s new PIXMA AIO’s – namely the PIXMA MP560 and PIXMA MP490 – we felt it incumbent on us to also offer a heads up concerning another new release from Canon in the form of their latest SELPHY Series printer – the Canon SELPHY BP790.

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Canon have updated their PIXMA range with two new All-in-One (AIO) photo printers, the Canon PIXMA MP560 and the Canon PIXMA MP490, which, in the case of the PIXMA MP560, is the most compact wireless enabled (Wi-Fi) AIO printer with auto duplex printing capabilities to be offered by Canon to date.

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HP have confirmed that they are to add to their Photosmart range of printers with their HP Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart Web AIO printer which HP bill as being ‘the world’s first Web connected home printer’ that’s ‘powered by touch and empowered by the Web’.

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If you’re in the market for a scanner and an AIO printer doesn’t quite meet with your requirements, perhaps the NeatDesk Desktop Scanner and Digital Filing System, which serves as a desktop ADF AIO scanner, may fit the bill in offering to bring (digital) order to paperwork chaos.

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If you’re in the market for an ultra-portable scanner to assist with ‘business on the road’, so to speak, you may be interested in the PFU Fujitsu ScanSnap S300 ultra-portable scanner which, whilst not new (its been around a while now), has just gained a software update allowing for easier (more intuitive) control as well as improved handling specifically with regard to business card scanning as well as general document scanning.

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Canon has officially launched new, Mark II versions of its PIXMA Pro9000 and PIXMA Pro9500 photo printers – both of which, in the initial iterations, have proved especially popular with amateur and professional photographers alike – and the latter of which utilises Lucia brand pigment-based inks.

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Sometimes its just so much easier to listen to text being read to you rather than having to read it yourself and, to that end, the Plustek V100BookReader could prove especially handy as, with just a single button press, the V100 BookReader can convert any text to an MP3 file via TTS that can be listened to on any compatible audio device leaving you to just sit back, relax and take it all in. And, of course, for the visually impaired, such functionality could prove especially handy.

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The D-link DP-303 is a device that lets you share a printer over a LAN. The device is essentially a print server that has three bi-directional ports and an RJ-45 Ethernet port via which the DP-303 connects to a LAN.

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The Film 2 SD Negative Scanner is a compact handy device that lets you scan, view, and save your precious old 35mm negatives and slides in a digital format. A nice concept that lets you convert images without a computer and scanner. The scanner lets you scan color, black and white slides and negatives.

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Subsequent to its CES unveiling, Dell’s new handheld printer, the Dell PZ310 Wasabi ZINK printer, which offers color printing via both USB and wirelessly via Bluetooth (making it ideal for use with cell phones and PDAs), has just become available.

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Samsung has introduced three wireless printers in the market – the CLX-3175FW, ML-1630W, and SCX-4500W. Wirelessly networked printers offer the obvious advantage of connectivity with flexibility and mobility as wiring and rewiring is no longer a consideration. The printers can be commanded wirelessly from desktops, laptops, PDAs, and other mobile devices. The CLX-3175FW, ML-1630W and SCX-4500W cost $642.99, $285.99 and $428.99, respectively.
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Canon are adding to its all-in-one (AIO) printer line-up with two new PIXMA printers aimed specifically at home office professionals and SOHO setups – namely the Canon PIXMA MX330 and PIXMA MX860.

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Aimed specifically as Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) setups, the new Samsung SCX-4824FN/28FN all-in-one laser printer – which, as it’s ‘all-in-one’ status suggests, offers printing, faxing (inc. PC faxing), copying and scanning functionalities in a particularly compact single unit – has just become available which, aside from the previously detailed capabilities, also offers the ability to print directly from USB flash drives (by no means a revelation, but handy none-the-less).

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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has no doubt held revolutionary promise ever since it really started making waves in the tech field from around 2003. What’s held it back is that inspite of the endless number of uses that it can be put to there has not been a single RFID kit in the market that you an I could take home and play around with – that is till now.

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Following on from Polaroid’s PoGo ZINK Digital Instant Mobile Photo Printer, Tomy are set to follow Polaroid in embracing ZINK printing technology with their new 5 megapixel Tomy xiao TIP-521 Digital Camera which comes with integrated ZINK printer allowing you to print photos directly from the TIP-521 wherever you may be without the need for an external printer.

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Objet Geometries have kindly offered us (in advance of even their own official press release going live) a tantalising insight concerning their new Alaris 30 Desktop 3D Printer which, despite its decidedly compact design, offers high resolution 600 x 600 dpi resolution 3D printing using PolyJet Photopolymer Jetting Technology to render not only full, and exceptionally detailed 3D objects but which, as is evidenced by the impressive car model sent to us (which is presently sitting on my desk), can even produce models complete with intricate, interacting moving parts.

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Hewlett Packard chose the Photokina show to debut its new, five ink photo printer, the HP B8550, which, apart from being capable of producing photo quality prints at sizes up to 13×19 inches comes with an integrated memory card reader and 2.4” pivoting LCD screen allowing you to carry out basic editing and printing directly from a wide range of memory cards (including SD/MMC, XD and CF memory cards) without the need to power up your PC.

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Printer design is, on the whole, something that rarely gets us excited but in the case of Epson’s new, premier Artisan all-in-one inkjet printers – namely the Artisan 700 and Artisan 800 – we must confess to being smitten with their black aesthetics, curved edges and large, colourful, front mounted LCD screens.

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Casio – makers of impressive watches, genius calculators and now (drum roll please) the next best PCP-1200 digital touch screen photo printer on the market.

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Epson have taken the wraps off a new all-in-one (printer, scanner, copier) known as the Epson Stylus SX600FW with, apart from sporting an integrated 6.3cm LCD screen (allowing the Stylus SX600FW to print photos and send faxes without the need to a PC) also comes with Epson’s Micro Piezo print head technology paired with ‘a new high-speed engine’ as well as integrated Wi-Fi allowing the SX600FW to be hooked up to a wireless network to ‘serve as a centralised hub for wireless printing and scanning for all the family’.

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Cannon have announced two new, all-in-one multifunction colour photo printers, the Pixma MP480 and the Pixma MP190, which, according to Canon, ‘exemplify why Canon is the imaging expert in our industry’ and which come with a 1.8-inch TFT colour LCD display and 20ppm/16ppm (for black/colour respectively) output, in the case of the MP480, and 4800 x 1200 dpi color resolution in the case of the MP190.

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In line with expectations, Polaroid’s new PoGo ZINK portable printer (or, to give it it’s full, somewhat elongated title, Polaroid’s PoGo ZINK Digital Instant Mobile Photo Printer) looks set to become available tomorrow (June 6) as originally touted in Polaroid’s previous press releases, though initial reactions have been, at best, lukewarm with PC Magazine, who took the PoGo for a test run, referring to the quality of its prints as merely ‘adequate’.

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Epson has today launched their flagship Epson Stylus NX400 ‘All in One’ Ink Jet which, apart from serving as a colour printer, comes complete with integrated 2.5” tilting LCD display allowing the end user to easily and quickly transfer files, as well as select, copy and print brilliant, border-free photos without having to rely on a computer.

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Cannon’s new Selphy compact photo printers, namely the Selphy CP760 and Selphy CP770 – billed by Cannon themselves as sporting a ‘basket-style’ design – both of which feature a proprietary lamination process to help reduce image bleeding and blurring – as well as offering resistance to fingerprint marks and smudging – are at last available to US based consumers.

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Samsung Korea have unveiled what it claims to be the world’s smallest laser colour printers in the form of its new CLP-315K colour laser printer and the CLX-3175FNK colour laser printer/scanner/fax combo.

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Those looking for a highly portable, easily transportable colour printer for use with notebooks/laptops whilst on the move may be interested in Cannons new PIXMA iP100 printer which is sure to prove the ideal travelling companion for those requiring hard copies of documents whilst away from the office.

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With the popularity of digital photo frames showing no signs of abating manufactures are keen to come up with products that distinguish themselves from the plethora of products available and, whilst we’ve seen digital photo frames with integrated weather station functionality and even digital frames that can have their imagery transmitted directly from your cell phone, such as the Parrot DF7700, this offering from SmartParts is the first to offer a fully integrated colour printer – allowing you to gain hard-copies of imagery directly from the device itself.

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