Club Printer

Samsung presented the SCX-5530FN, a network-ready Four-in-one printer. The printer has built-in Windows, Macintosh and Linux compatibility and its 10/100 Base-TX network connectivity, the SCX-5530FN can easily be integrated into customers’ networks, delivering extended print, scan and fax functionality. Customers can also connect directly with Hi-Speed USB 2.0 and IEEE-1284 parallel ports.

The Samsung SCX-5530FN delivers delivers high-quality, high-resolution documents with 1200 dpi effective output. It produces crisp, color scans with up to 600 x 600 dpi optical and 4800 x 4800 dpi enhanced scanning resolution for capturing photo-quality color and sharp black and white text. (more…)

You wouldn’t know it from the model number, but the HP Photosmart A516 Compact Photo Printer ($99.99 direct) is a direct descendant of last year’s HP Photosmart 385 GoGo Printer. HP has changed its naming scheme, but the resemblance was obvious the instant I opened the box. The ink jet-based A516 has the same miniature-toaster shape as the 385—big enough to hold two slices.

And it shares key features with its older sibling, including similar print speed, high-quality output, and the ability to print at sizes up to 4- by 12-inch panoramas. But the A516 brings something new to the party, in the form of nearly waterproof output. And it offers more features than I generally expect to see for this price. (more…)

Sagem Communication launched today a new innovative range of compact, efficient and low cost mono A4 paper size professional laser MFPs. The range comprises five different models:
MF44 series: sheetfed scanner with fax function.
MF54 series: flatbed scanner with automatic document feeder and fax function (more…)

Jet Tec, manufacturer of compatible inkjet cartridges, has launched a new range of compatible cartridges for the recently announced Canon Pixma ip4200.

The Pixma printer is one of the most advanced high performance photo printers in the market. Jet Tec says with consumers able to print up-to 20 per cent more than with equivalent OEM cartridges, the new SKU’s will provide the dealer and reseller with an opportunity to focus on margin and profit. (more…)

Bernard Cassidy, product manager for hardware and software security at Ricoh, reveals how new printer systems are creating new challenges for IT managers.

Bernard Cassidy joined printer specialist Ricoh in 2002 and is product manager with responsibility for managing the marketing of security hardware and software products, black and white printers (in the 45-75ppm sector) and low-end document management software. He is also instrumental in managing decentralised host printing solutions. (more…)

Behold the smallest colour laser printer in the world: the Samsung CLP-300. Bow before its staggering lack of girth. Gasp in astonishment at its remarkable absence of height and roll down your sleeves as you realise you’ll be able to carry it home from the shops without breaking your back.

It weighs just 13.6kg and is positively svelte (for a laser printer) at just 390mm across, 260mm high and 340mm deep. That’s about the size of two Shih Tzu puppies standing side by side. Admittedly it’s not as tiny as some inkjets, but it’s still pretty impressive considering some colour lasers are the size of a small outhouse. (more…)

It seems like Epson can’t stop announcing new printers, because another two printers are on their way, the Epson PictureMate PM 280 and PictureMate PM 240which will be premium quality 10×15cm photo printers. (more…)

Lexmark is certainly making the most of its all-in-one printer design. The ‘box with a chunk cut out’ look of all its budget multifunction machines is continued in the X3480, though here there’s a small control panel added and memory card slots on the right of the front panel.

Here are some paragraphs form the review made by PcMag. The slots support most of the major formats of memory card, including xD and MicroDrive, but not the older SmartMedia. There’s PictBridge too, so you can print directly from compatible digital camera.

A small LCD screen displays menu items and options in real English, which is an improvement over the simple indicator lights most machines in this price bracket use. (more…)

Canon’s new Pixma iP6700D photo printer is the successor to the company’s iP6600D, one of our 100 Best Products of 2006. I was eager to see what Canon added to our midrange favorite, but found it largely a case of evolution, not revolution.

The $200 iP6700D is first and foremost a photo printer, and in our tests it produced high-quality prints, worth a Very Good score, on photo paper. However, although the images looked vibrant, our jury noted that skin tones often appeared a little too bronzed.

The device is less adept at printing text. Unlike the $230 Canon Pixma iP5200R photo printer, it doesn’t use pigment black ink; as a result, its text output wasn’t as dark, and we also noted fuzzy edges on some characters. (more…)

Not strictly speaking a colour laser printer, OKI’s latest workgroup C3300n colour printer has a 1,200 x 600dpi resolution and, like many of its siblings, uses LED technology to print. This achieves much the same effect as a laser printer only with generally faster print times and, it has to be said, lower print quality.

The major difference between laser and LED printers lies in the first stage of printing. Instead of using a laser beam sweeping the page, the LED process uses an array containing thousands of light-emitting diodes to sweep an entire line at the same time. This leads to fast print times and more reliability, as LED printers tend to have fewer mechanical parts. (more…)