US patent application by an Australian company for a multi-color inkjet pen Yes, yet another interesting use of the inkjet technology, this time in a pen. Australian company Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd has filed US patent application number 20050265770 for a pen that uses multiple ink heads to be able to print variable width lines …
Questions have been asked about ink going stale. I asked Epson about this. In response to some questions floating around on the internet about whether inkjet ink can go stale, I put the following questions to Epson: Does Epson’s inkjet ink have a ‘useby date’ before it goes stale, both for unopened cartridges and for …
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The 9-ink HP 8750 makes a great photo printer if some limitations are not an issue. The HP Photosmart 8750 is a nine-color printer: cyan, magenta, yellow,light cyan, light magenta, blue, light grey, dark grey and black. Itprints images from postcard up to 13″ by 19″ or 324mm by 476mm (A3).Print resolution is up to …
Epson has released new lightfastness ratings from testing done for them by the Wilhelm Instutute. Below are the latest figures from Epson on expected display life oftheir inks and papers. All the new R series printers with the HQ inkssit in the second column. Media 6 color Photo 825, 925, 960, 1280 6 color HQ …
A good printer for the price that can also print on your CDs and DVDs. Note, at the time of posting this, this printer was not yet announcedfor the US market, so no US pricing is available. Check with the localEpson web site www.epson.com some time later to see when it isannounced for North America. …
A great printer that does not even need a computer to do everything from printing photos to burning them to CD. The latest Epson printers look pretty impressive, and none more so thanthe R350. This printer uses six individual ink cartridges andEpson’s new HQ dye based color ink for brighter images. Using Epson’sVariable Sized Droplet …
Consumer Art – Large Format Printing Takes Another Leap with Hewlett-Packard Designjet Press Release Digital photography enthusiasts can now have their photos printed inlarge format on a variety of media at a fraction of the cost. No longer do you have to rely on image labs to output yourprints. Companies such as Digital Prints …
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Siemens shows color display technology that can be printed onto various surfaces and can display a moving image. At the Plastics Electronics trade fair in Frankfurt this month, Siemensdemonstrated small color displays that can be printed using commercialprinting processes onto paper and plastics. These very low costdisplays will come to market in 2007. The material …
Digital Asset Management solution provides integration of Cumulus and Kodak’s RealTimeProof Partner product Canto, a global leader in Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions hasannounced that it will provide a new integrated solution of Cumulus andKodak’s RealTimeProof Partner product. Canto has developed an integration that leverages the remote proofing,approval management and color management features of RealTimeProofPartner. …
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2nd Edition Mastering Digital Printing2nd EditionBy Harald JohnsonPublished by Thomson Course Technology, 2005ISBN 1-59200-431-8 This book is, at the present time, the definitive book on digitalprinting. In around 400 pages the author manages to pack in a hugeamount of information that can guide people through purchasingdecisions, outsourcing decisions and help with getting the best out …