The Hewlett-Packard company, generally known as HP, is one of the leading names in the computer and computer-related devices industry, alongside other manufacturers such as Canon, Epson, Samsung or Sony. On our daily activities, especially the professional ones, we rely on technology and the advantages we have by simply using it are multiple and let’s face it, technology makes out life easier.

The invention of small portable communication devices such as the laptop or the mobile phone showed us just how very important is to have the possibility of sharing information with other people in any conditions. Until the discovery of the wireless technology, geographical conditions, for example, made impossible and impracticable the long distance communication.



The Bluetooth system is the most popular wireless technology although the notion of wireless basically means the transfer of information by using forms of energy such as the radio frequency, the infrared light or the acoustic energy without the need of wires. The use of the wireless tech is mostly associated with portable electronic devices such as the mobile phones or the mini-laptops to other related devices such as the printers, the scanner or the wireless all-in-one printers.

And since this is such a useful discovery why not use it for any electronic item? This way of thinking was adopted by all computer manufacturers, especially Canon and HP, known for their great computer-related products.

On the official HP internet site you have the possibility of viewing all the products available for sale and compare the features and the prices. You can order them directly from the main site or it will be cheaper and faster to buy the searched product from the specialized electronic stores.

On the same site the HP products are categorized depending on their main characteristics so you have the HP all in one normal and wireless printers classified by type, with a simple single-function laser jet or the simple single-function inkjet; by brand and that is business jet, photosmart, officejet, laserjet, etc.; and depending on the usage, they are for students and home or for graphic arts or professionals.

Below you have some of the most popular HP all-in-one wireless printer products.

The HP Photosmart C4780 all-in-one printer has an easy wireless setup and prints almost 23 color pages per minute and 29 in black, having a 1.45" LCD with an HP TouchSmart frame.

The HP Photosmart C4780 wireless all-in-one printer with Linksys by Cisco Wireless-N Broadband Router (WRT160N-HP) has the same features as the one mentioned above, including a specially designed router for optimal use with HP Pavilion dv6t and dv4t laptop series.

The HP Officejet 4500 Wireless all-in-one printer has a wireless connectivity, with printer, scanner and fax and speed up to 22 color pages per minute and 28 in black.


The Hp Photosmart Premium all-in-one scans, copies and prints and has Bluetooth and wireless 802.11 n, with a 3.45" TouchSmart screen and speeds up to 32 color pages per minute and 33 in black.

The HP Photosmart Premium Fax all-in-one printer, scanner, fax and copier has a n Ethernet connectivity and a built-in wireless, with Bluetooth and a 2.4" color display, printing up to 32 pages in color per minute and 33 in black and a easy two-sided printing.

Of course, the products aren’t limited to the ones already mentioned and for more information about them you should definitely seek the advice of a specialist or learn by yourself more about these electronic products.

As you have probably noticed, to link these wireless computer devices to a laptop or desktop computer you will need a wireless router and an Ethernet port and the build-in USB’s necessary to link the two products with cables and adapter to search for the wireless network. The network adapter will be installed by inserting the drivers CD in the computer CD drive and use a cable to make the connection and select the option “Create or modify the printer’s wireless settings” and finally make the wireless connection by selecting the option “Wireless networks found in your area”. The user’s manual that come with those bought products will indicate you exactly the steps of how to use the wireless HP printers, all-in-one.

The electronic devices made by Toshiba include not only computers and laptops but also printers, scanners or all-in-ones. The products available for sale can be directly purchased from specialized stores and the great advantage is the fact that in those stores you may find those devices at discounted prices. On the official English internet site of Toshiba we can find all Toshiba products available for sale and the offers of Toshiba laptops, printers and scanners are numerous so you can actually compare prices and learn more about a device’s important features.

Toshiba is a Japanese multinational conglomerate with its main headquarter located in Japan’s capital, Tokyo, specialized in the manufacturing of diversified electronic and electrical products, household appliances, being the fifth world marketer and producer of internet-based services, communication, social and power systems and internal computer parts and solutions, after Dell and Hewlett-Packard from the U.S., Acer for Taiwan and Lenovo from China.


The Toshiba laptop printer can be linked to the laptop with cables or by using a wireless network, the latest and popular being the Bluetooth system; either being a laser jet or an inkjet printer, if it is wireless than you will need a computer USB cable to connect the Toshiba printer and laptop to a wireless network, a wireless router and an Ethernet port.

The same as for the laptops, it is also very important to understand the main features of a printers; some products come in an all-in-one format, some portable printers will print only in grey scale, usually being the cheapest ones available out there, the color and photo printers can use the inkjet method or the laser jet, the weight is also very important and let us not forget that the all-in-ones also have a scanner so the size of the LCD screen is very important.

Some popular inkjet and photo printers are the Epson WorkForce 30 Color Inkjet Printer, with a laser speed and quality in an inkjet printer, Epson WorkForce 40 Wireless Color Inkjet Printer with Ethernet connectivity or Canon PIXMA iP3600 Color Inkjet Printer with individual ink tanks and PictBridge; Canon iP100 Mobile Photo printer is a stylish high resolution printer.

Some other examples of laptop and computer laser printers made by Toshiba are the Brother series: Brother HL-2170W Monochrome Wireless Laser Printer, Brother HL-3070CW Digital Color Wireless Laser Printer, Brother MFC-9010CN digital color multifunction network printer, Brother HL-2140 Monochrome Laser Printer; Samsung series: Samsung Monochrome Wireless Laser Printer, Samsung Monochrome Network Laser Printer or Samsung Monochrome Multifunction Wireless Laser Printer; and, of course, the popular Canon printers.

You can select a laptop and a printer from a multitude of offers and usually each person seeks for a gadget that fits with its professional needs, but not only; remember that the small gadgets are sold quite expensively because the reduction in size also means small internal components without affecting the quality and the computer’s or the device’s important functions so always compare prices before actually buying one.


Before buying a laptop you should probably learn to understand more about its internal components and their importance; the VGA board, the motherboard with the hard drives, for a laptop being either SATA or IDE, the RAM memory, the built-in USB ports and the external features such as the keyboard and if you find it to small for your hands, the size of the LCD screen and a laptop weight. The laptops are portable computers so it is very important for them to be light-weight and easy to handle in all kinds of circumstances, especially when you know that you will be traveling a lot.

The laptops are necessary not only for business men who can carry their office with their most important business documents in a special design bag or backpack in their journeys, but also for students who can easily do their homework by having easy access to any source of information with the help of the Internet.

Those special laptop bags have an extra room for other small and important devices that can be used with the laptops such as the laptop portable printers and/or scanners, the laptop’s main power sources: the extra battery packs and the AC power cord or other information and communication devices or computer related cables.

Most dye-sublimation printers you can find on the market are relatively affordable, compact and easy to take along outside the house. The few dye-sublimation printers that don't fit into the previous description were generally made to work as commercial photo printers.

One such printer is the Fujifilm ASK-2000 thermal photo printer. The ASK-2000 is an upgraded version of the ASK-1500, a printer that became very popular for it's high output speeds and overall quality. Even so, users made their demands of higher speeds and even simpler maintainable known and so, the ASK-2000 was born. The Fujifilm ASK-2000 can output a print of 4 by 6 inch size in about 8 seconds if installed in a single-unit configuration while in a two-unit configuration the print time is reduced in half, to 4 seconds for the same format of print.

This means you'd be getting about 450 prints in 4 by 6 and 225 prints of 5 by 7 inches an hour. From one single roll the ASK-2000 will produce up to 600 6 by 4 inch prints and if you're willing to use alternative media, the largest printable size is 6 by 9 inches.


The design of the printer was kept as simple as possible. Everything you ever need to do with th printer you can do from the front, starting from powering it on to loading paper, changing ink or actual printing. Due to a pretty small footprint the printer also saves some space. Without media this printer weighs about 25kg. While it's not the lightest printer to move around, it can be transported relatively easily to wherever you need it. This makes it a good printer for events. The setup of this printer is easy. You just have to install the software, on either Windows or Macintosh, depending on what you're using (since it's compatible with both) then simply connect it through USB 2.0 and you're ready to print.

This Fujifilm printer makes use of the dye-sublimation technology, through an ink ribbon that's heated by a thermal head and coated with dye. The Dye is transferred onto the special coated paper, which absorbs it to form the actual image. On top of the dye goes a protective UV layer that makes the prints water resistant and more durable. Another great part about using a dye-sublimation printer is that you're never surprised by the printing costs which are fixed due to the consumables used that last enough for a certain number of photographs.


So who would the Fujifilm ASK-2000 work for? Any user who's looking for commercial photo printers to use them either in a stable location or at events. These printers work well for providing wedding photography and could even be used for law enforcement organizations due to their high-quality printing. While this printer retails for about $2750 it's fast printing speeds and high quality will allow its user to recover the investment in about 5-6 events. So aside from convenient, the ASK-2000 is highly profitable as well.

The whole point of a digital photo printer is to transform the photo you've just snapped with a digital camera into a glossy paper print. There's a wide variety of photo printers on the market.

You'll find wide format printers, multifunction printers that offer good photo quality, standalone printers and even compact photo printers that you get to carry around along with your digital camera anywhere you go. But how do you choose one and determine what's best for you? Choosing photo printers isn't necessarily hard if you stop to analyze a few simple details.


First of all it's good to determine the technology you want to buy. Dye-sublimation printers use heat to transform solid ink into vapor and transfer it onto glossy photo paper. The result is lab quality and the print even has a special transparent coating on top to protect the photo from liquids and fading over time. Inkjet printers create a series of small ink droplets and because they make use of liquid ink they require a bit of time before the print dries. They do offer good quality but some say that it doesn't compare to dye-sublimation. The main advantage of inkjets is that they aren't only made for photography and can serve many other purposes.

An inkjet all-in-one can for example handle small office tasks and offer copy, scan and faxing on top of providing high quality photographs. Inkjet printers are also more affordable and easy to find on the market. If you're not an intensive photo printer, inkjet would generally be a better choice.


Next deciding factor should be what device you plan to use your printer with. If you're only using it with a computer, than any printer is ok. For use with digital cameras the printer has to have a PictBridge port while if you're sure you need to use memory cards you should check if the printer has compatible slots.

Another specific type of printer on the market, that uses zink technology (zero ink) doesn't work very well with computers right now and mostly serves as a portable buddy for a digital camera. If you're considering a zink printer be aware of this.


If you want to take your printer on a trip ocassionally then a small portable printer is the best choice. Something you need to check in this case is whether an optional battery is available for it. For most photo printers a color LCD is also really nice to have for editing and previewing photographs and navigating through the menu if you're using the device without the help of a PC. Most portable photo printers limit you to 4 by 6 in size. If you want to print in larger sizes as well a wiser choice would be to stick to a desktop printer that can offer that. Finally, the price of the printer should always be considered along with the price of maintenance.

It doesn't matter if you pay $50 for a printer. If that same printer will cost you $500 for a year worth of use than it doesn't really prove to be that affordable. Make sure you check consumable prices and potential problems of the device before deciding to purchase a printer. By following this simple guidelines choosing photo printers should be a pleasant and fun thing to do.

Regardless of what you need a printer for (home, small office or maybe even photo printing) the most convenient type at this moment would be the all in one color printers. On top of its obvious printer capabilities the user will also be getting, in the same price tag, copying, scanning and in most cases faxing capabilities too. The benefits to this are obvious.

The first of them is space saving. Adding a copier, printer, scanner and fax machine to the same room obviously takes up a lot of space. Furthermore the user is constantly stuck moving around between the devices depending on what features they mean to use. The last argument is obviously cost efficiency. An all-in-one printer will surely be more affordable than purchasing all of the standalone devices and will eat up less money for maintenance too.

So it’s really no surprise that most manufacturers are in a hurry to offer many multifunction models. They come in various prices, with better features and a nicer design. Since the demand for them is also very high, companies like Canon release such devices to the market rather often. Towards the more affordable end of the scale is the Pixma MP490 all-in-one printer. But don’t let its lower price fool you; it still comes with a nice set of features.

The MP490 all-in-one printer is part of a mini-series of printers that share the same design. The case is made up of light gray and black and comes with rounded edges. The MP490 measures 450 x 335 x 155 mm and weighs 5.5 kg so can be considered a reasonably light device with a decent footprint. Keeping the printer rather small obviously means a little bit of compromise. Low paper capacity of 100 sheets and no networking capabilities makes the MP490 best suited for a home office with low printing needs.

It may also work well on the desk of some students for occasional printing of reports, copying of documents and scanning. The MP490 can print directly from memory cards or PictBridge compatible digital cameras. Memory card types it supports include SD, xD Picture Card, Memory Stick Pro Duo and Compact Flash.

So, what’s the catch and why does this printer cost under a hundred dollars? Aside from the extra features that you’re not getting (one could mention a duplexer, wireless support or ADF) because you’ve decided that you don’t need them, the price of ink somehow makes up in the long run for the affordable initial price.

This means that the cost of consumables is rather high and the mother company may be making more money off selling ink than the actual printer. Overall these all in one color printers are a great buy if you don’t print very often or expect high speeds. It’s small, lightweight, easy to set up and produces good quality photo prints so it’s an ideal candidate for a small office environment, assuming, of course the user is prepared to spend slightly more on replacing the ink than some of the competing devices would require.