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Peter's Printers / Scanners Blog November 2005 Archive

By Peter Piazza, About.com Guide to Printers / Scanners

Wired Gift Guide

Wednesday November 30, 2005
The gift guides have started proliferating, and one of the first out of the gate is Wired News, which chooses three photo printers as its picks for holiday presents: The ... Read More

Scan For Less

Tuesday November 29, 2005
PC Magazine has published a review roundup of three under-$100 scanners that can help you scan your family photos and (in one case) slides/film. They include the Canon CanoScan LiDE60, ... Read More

InfoWorld Looks At Color Printers

Monday November 28, 2005
InfoWorld has done a special report on color printers which, according to the magazine, are getting faster and better. However, says the introduction, "long-term costs continue to soar." However, if ... Read More

Losing Your Margin?

Sunday November 27, 2005
The Chicago Tribune's James Coates answers a reader's question about printing Web pages. According to the reader, whenever she prints a page from the Internet, she loses part of the ... Read More

Time To Shop

Friday November 25, 2005
It's the day after Thanksgiving -- Black Friday, according to retailers, the day when traditionally they start making money rather than paying the tax man -- and people are starting ... Read More

Google Vs. The Authors Guild

Tuesday November 22, 2005
While this site mostly deals with desktop scanners and printers, there are some fairly prominent issues today that deal with scanning -- namely, Google's plan to scan, and put online, ... Read More

Get Some Satisfaction

Monday November 21, 2005
J.D. Power and Associates, a consulting firm, has put together a report on customer satisfaction, and of the printer manufacturers, Dell has come up on top. According to an article ... Read More

In This Case, Spam Doesn't Pay

Monday November 21, 2005
In a report on two technology-releated court cases, InformationWeek related that Earthlink has won a $15.4 million judgement against a spammer who, according to Earthlink, sent hundreds of thousands of ... Read More

Photo Printer Buyers Guide

Wednesday November 16, 2005
David Elrich of DesignTechnica has published a well-written Photo Printers Buyers Guide that offers a succinct but thorough rundown of the various issues involved in purchasing a photo printer, such ... Read More

Printers, Printers Everywhere....

Tuesday November 15, 2005
If you want a quick-and-dirty rundown of all the various printers that have recently come on to the market, look no further. Small Business Computing has published a rundown on ... Read More

The Lawyers Speak

Tuesday November 15, 2005
FindLaw, a site that looks at legal issues written for both the public and for lawyers, has published a column by Anita Ramasastry, who is a director of the Shidler ... Read More

Lasers vs. Inkjets

Sunday November 13, 2005
David Colker, writer for the LA Times, pits laser printers against inkjets for the home market, and feels that inkjets still reign because of their lower prices and still-superior color. ... Read More

Making Displays With An Inkjet

Friday November 11, 2005
I thought I'd finish the week with a science story -- Cambridge Display Technology says it has developed a way of creating displays using ink-jet printing. These displays use polymer-based ... Read More

Changing A Toner Cartridge In Rochester

Wednesday November 9, 2005
You find some interesting stuff when you play with Google. For example, I typed "printers" into Google News, and somehow or other came up with a page from the Web ... Read More

Cheap Laser Printers

Tuesday November 8, 2005
Good Housekeeping, which is one of those magazines that seems to go on forever, has its own testing facility which it calls the GH Institute. It recently looked at laser ... Read More

The Eyes Have It

Monday November 7, 2005
I'm going to veer away from the usual topic and veer towards a different kind of scanner -- iris scanners. You know, the kind of thing that you see in ... Read More

Printing in Reverse Order

Sunday November 6, 2005
Sometimes the most useful articles are those that offer simple tips. Like this one from Desktop Pipeline, which offers info on how to print a document in reverse order in ... Read More

Print Online or at Home?

Thursday November 3, 2005
Eric Butterfield's latest column discusses whether it costs more to print your photos yourself, or get them printed by an online service. His conclusion? The photos cost about 62 cents ... Read More

Printers! Cheap!

Wednesday November 2, 2005
PC Magazine's latest printer roundup collects three under-$50 printers from Lexmark and HP, and puts them under the microscope. And surprise -- while none of them are going to beat ... Read More

Eternal Epson Inks

Tuesday November 1, 2005
If you're desperate to save money on your Epson ink cartridges -- and you don't mind if your computer looks like it escaped from your local hospital's ER -- then ... Read More

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