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Samsung finally debut two new Printers in UK

Samsung has finally released their new Sleek, Sexy and Slim laser printers. Designed to fit into any living room and complement the decor, the printers were conceived to be more of a style statement than the usual beige box in the corner. The new Samsung ML-1630 is “the world’s slimmest mono-laser printer” at only 11cm thick, a form factor that explains why the printer is only available as a monochrome laser. The range also includes the Samsung SCX-4500 multi-function scanner and the laser we mentioned before. Prices are £129 and £199 respectively.

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Newly available on the Stinkyink Website are compatible colour cartridges for the Dell 3010cn printer. These are high capacity cartridges and should give you about 4,000 pages yield (at 5% coverage). They are about the same price online as you would pay Dell for the standard capacity (2,000 page yield)cartridges. Manufactured to the very highest standards and guaranteed to perform in you Dell laser printer - this is a winning product for you

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HP Laserjet P2014 Mono Printer

Just launched by HP the Laserjet P2014 is aimed squarely at the Small Office/Home Offcie environment.

There’s little software other than the driver and this is fairly basic. There’s no duplex facility on the machine, so the main software options are multi-page prints, watermarks - though no overprints - and resolution selection. The three print quality options are 600dpi, FastRes 1200 (emulated 1200 dpi) and ProRes 1200, progressively better and better. Selections are obvious and the layout of the driver is conventional and easy to work your way around.

HP claims the LaserJet P2014 can print up to 23 pages per minute and our five-page text document completed in 18 seconds, which equates to 17ppm. Considering this includes processing and rasterising time, which most printer manufacturers don’t include in their print speed figures, 17ppm is pretty good. There’s very little warm-up time to this printer, which starts printing quickly, even when it’s been asleep for a while. This is an important feature, because a personal laser printer is unlikely to be printing anywhere near continuously. Typical use will probably see only a few documents printed each day, within long periods of sleep. This means most print jobs will include any start-up time and without the need to warm-up a fuser, the printer will be quicker overall than those that have to wait.

So, does the printer reduce its start-up time by keep it’s fuser hot all the time, in which case it will be using lots of power, even when asleep? It draws just 7W in sleep mode, about half the consumption of an energy-saving lamp, so it’ll use a unit in just under six days.

Print speeds for our text and graphics and the photo page files are both good, with 18 seconds for the former and a fairly blistering eight seconds for the photo print - 7.5ppm. Even when we switched to the higher resolution ProRes mode, it only took 11 seconds.

Using HP’s Q7553 cartrdiges, the Q7553A version gives about 3,000 Pages and the Q7553X version up to 7,000 which gives a price per page of about £0.12. Stinkyink are offering a remanufactured cartridge(STQ7553X), which they claim gives an output equivalent to the manufacturers and works out at about £0.006 per page.

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After an intensive period of global research and development, Brother are unveiling their new range of Laser Printers and Multifunction Printers (MFP’s). The Line up consists of seven new machines (three printers and four MFP’s), which can print colour documents at mono speeds (up to 20ppm); this is thanks to the use of single pass technology. The range aims to address many issues that business owners’ face today - hours are long, business pressures are mounting and competition is rampant. The new range of MFP’s can boot productivity, reduce costs, allow process review and contribut to happier staff - in short business owners can ‘revolutionise’ the way they work by buying a Brother colour solutions.

The product range is packed with a host of innnovative features which occupy a smaller desktop footprint than competitor models:

• Taking the maxim ‘time is money’ one step further, offering high speeds at low costs in a bid to increase business efficiency and lower long-term costs.
• The range freature some highly innovative functions, offering the only single pass colour laser MFP to print double-sided and the only colour laser machines with built-in wireless technology
• Brothers new colour laser models are the first devices to support Secure Socket Layer (SSL) application, which prevents hacking and allows sensitive documents to be printed securely via a network. SSL is already widely used in e-commerce to protect customer information such as credit card details. This is the first time this techology has been used to provide a truly secure printer.
• Both the new printer and MFP models are equipped with a direct print from USB feature, enabling PDF’s, TIFF’s, JPEG’s and PRN files to be printed without a PC and the MFP’s also allow users to scan direct to USB Memory Stick - ideal for proffesionals on the move. In addition, the new machines support the PictBridge feature, allowing users to connect a digital camera direct to the device via a USB port and one year on-site warranty as standard (upon registration).

The Range of Colour Laser printers is:

The MFP’s are divided into two families, the DCP9040CN and DCP9045CDN witout Fax capability and the MFC9440CN and MFC9840CDW which incorporate fax as well.

• Brother DCP9040CN. Is a full colour Network ready Multi-Function printer. Boasting print speeds up to 20ppm in colour and mono with 2,400 x 600 dpi resolution the printer comes with 64Mb or 128Mb which is expandable up to 640Mb, copies up to 99 multi-copies with stack and sort funcitons 2 in 1 and 4 in 1 copying and poster printing and allows hi-res colour scanning with up to 19,200 dpi interpolated resolution, 48 bit colour depth and is Twain/WIA compliant
• Brother DCP9045CDN also includes all of the above with the addition of Auto Duplexing, USB Memory slot and Pictbridge and has an optional lower tray
• Brother MFC9440CN includes super G3 colour faxing, is network ready and includes USB Memory Slot and Pictbridge.
• Brother MFC9840CDW is to of the range in Colour Laser printing/scanning/copying/faxing. Complete with full auto Duplex it also has Wireless connectivity and includes iFax and LDAP

This is a fabulous range of hardware from Brother and will be available from August 2007

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In a report published by the Queensland University of Technology, researchers have concluded that printing using laser printers can be as bad for your health as smoking.

Professor Lidia Morawska found fine particles emitted by some laser printers raised indoor particle levels fivefold during office hours, that almost a third emit potentially dangerous levels of toner into the air and that the problem was worse when new cartridges were used and when graphics and images required higher quantities of toner.

The researchers carried out tests on more than 60 machines and almost one-third were found to emit ultra-tiny particles of toner-like material, so small that they can infiltrate the lungs and cause a range of health problems from respiratory irritation to more chronic illnesses.

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