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Peter's Printers / Scanners Blog December 2005 Archive

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

The Digital Duo Do MFPs

Tuesday December 27, 2005
PC World's "Digital Duo" -- Stephan Manes and Angela Gunn -- take on multifunction printers in this combination of an article and an online video. It's an interesting overview of ... Read More

The Top 5 Strangest Printer Stories of 2005

Monday December 26, 2005
The end of the year is a time for lists. Some people list the best of the year, some people list the worst. This year, I've decided to list the ... Read More

How Companies Can Count Pennies

Thursday December 22, 2005
Enterprise Networking Planet has an article explaining how companies can save money by instilling printer quotas -- accounting systems that track what is being printed, and who is printing it. ... Read More

Britain Rates IT

Wednesday December 21, 2005
Britain's Office of Fair Trading has declared that the IT industry has made some improvements, but also points out that there are still ongoing battles over ink cartridges. Things have ... Read More

Printing From The Web

Tuesday December 20, 2005
Michael Woods of the Toledo Blade tackles a common and irritating problem: How to print a Web page. Too often, you end up with the right side of the page ... Read More

Is HP Stacking the Decks?

Monday December 19, 2005
David DeJean of Desktop Pipeline has done some detective work -- he got an email complaining about the cost of maintaining the HP Color LaserJet 2600n, which had been recently ... Read More

Printers Under $100 -- 2005 Edition

Sunday December 18, 2005
People tend to spend an awful lot of money in this holiday season, and so, in an effort to help you keep a little of your hard-earned cash in the ... Read More

Bio-Ink and Bio-Paper

Thursday December 15, 2005
If you think that being able to print your own photos isn't wonderful enough, there is a team of U.S. scientists who is apparently studying the potential of printers to ... Read More

Dell Puts On The Gloves

Wednesday December 14, 2005
There's nothing to get the blood pumping then a good cat fight among business competitors. According to Business 2.0's Erick Schonfeld, when Dell Computer introduces its own line of printers ... Read More

CNN Discovers Photo Printing

Tuesday December 13, 2005
A recent article on the CNN Web site (actually, from the AP) talks about how easy it is these days to get "a hard copy of your memories." According to ... Read More

Quick Buyer's Guide

Monday December 12, 2005
For a quick and simple buyer's guide, you can check out this article at Personal Computer World, a UK online publication. While it doesn't feature any actual reviews, the guide ... Read More

But Will They Sell On eBay?

Sunday December 11, 2005
If you think you have trouble keeping up with your photo printer, just think about what businesses have to deal with. An article at Information Week tells how the attorney ... Read More

All About Scanners

Thursday December 8, 2005
My colleague at About.com's Photography site has put together a really impressive six-part feature that explains all about scanners. It includes advice on scanner types, features, film scanners, film problems, ... Read More

Printing at University

Wednesday December 7, 2005
A college-directed online journal has an artical about a college which is experimenting by having students use a networked printer rather than bringing their own. From what the article says, ... Read More

Best Printers/Scanners of 2005

Tuesday December 6, 2005
It's gift-giving time again, and so I've assembled our annual (well, annual inasmuch as this is the second year) Best Printers/Scanners of the year. In short: photo printers are overtaking ... Read More

The Cost of Cartridges

Monday December 5, 2005
The managing editor of the Kingsport Times-News (Tennessee) writes a short but eloquent explanation of why his free Dell 720 color printer is going out in the garage. "A pair ... Read More

Review: Epson Stylus C88

Sunday December 4, 2005
Sometimes, simpler is better. While there are a lot of really high-quality photo printers available -- ones with eight ink cartridges and 2.5-inch LCDs for editing on the fly -- ... Read More

Eye on Oki Data

Friday December 2, 2005
To end the week on a business-y angle, Forbes has published an interview with Stewart Krentzman, the president and CEO of Oki Data Americas. The printer company, which grew up ... Read More

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