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Peter's Printers / Scanners Blog January 2006 Archive

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

Sticking To Your Printer

Tuesday January 31, 2006
In his ComputerWorld column, columnist Steve Bass offers a tip on how to keep your older laser printer working. If you find that your rollers aren't gripping the paper properly ... Read More

Some Tips For Maintaining Your Inkjet

Monday January 30, 2006
PC World offers some tips on how to maintain your inkjet, and in the process, save a bit of cash. Tips include keeping the printer mechanism clean by giving it ... Read More

Keeping SANE

Monday January 30, 2006
Long-time technology writer Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes about the problems that Linux users have in trying to get their machines to work with their scanners -- and how an organization ... Read More

Lexmark Takes The Low Road

Thursday January 26, 2006
Back in 1995, Lexmark set up a printer factory in Rosyth, Scotland, with the help of 5.6 million pounds in government assistance, following by 6 million pounds two years later, ... Read More

HP Tries Wide

Wednesday January 25, 2006
Forbes describes a high-fashion scene where HP introduced two new wide-format printers to tempt graphic artists. And like many things in the art world, these aren't inexpensive devices -- they ... Read More

Printers For Free Software Users

Tuesday January 24, 2006
If you're a Linux user, you're used to using free software -- and you don't want to pay for a special printer driver for your printer. This site talks about ... Read More

The Printer Business From The Business Side

Monday January 23, 2006
For a hint of what folks in the business world are looking at when they look at printers, you might want to read this article on the Web site of ... Read More

Sharing Printers on a Network

Sunday January 22, 2006
informit.com is publishing chapters from the book "Create Your Own Home Networks," and one of those chapters deals with how to share files, printers, and other devices among the systems ... Read More

A Report From Macworld

Thursday January 19, 2006
Mike Pasini of Imaging Resource reports in from Macworld Expo in San Francisco to tell his readers that there are some intriguing new printers being introduced. They include a new ... Read More

Options For Printer-Ink Refills

Wednesday January 18, 2006
The Philadelphia Inquirer has contributed a well-written article about the three options that printer users have for feeding the need: buy new, recycle, or do it yourself. The author makes ... Read More

Three Cheap Lasers Go Head To Head

Tuesday January 17, 2006
CRN has taken a look at three inexpensive color laser printers -- Hewlett-Packard’s CLJ 3600n, Lexmark’s C524n and Xerox’s Phaser 6120 -- to see which offers the best performance for ... Read More

What They're Saying About: The Canon Pixma MP500

Monday January 16, 2006
The new year brings new printers, and Canon has added to its Pixma line with, among others, the Pixma MP500, a solid middle-of-the-line all-in-one with, according to both PC Magazine ... Read More

Printing With Linux

Thursday January 12, 2006
Enterprise Networking Planet offers Linux fans a way to get around a common problem: printing in Linux. In order to print with any OS, you need a printer driver, and ... Read More

Music For An Old Scanner

Wednesday January 11, 2006
Okay, here's the first contender for the 2006 Weirdest Use For A Printer Or Scanner Award. An enterprising tinkerer has managed to turn his ScanJet 4c into a music player. ... Read More

Biometric Scanning

Tuesday January 10, 2006
Security is a major concern today among computer users, and one of the ways that manufacturers are looking to reassure their customers are through the use of biometric scanners -- ... Read More

Is HP Being Unreasonable?

Tuesday January 10, 2006
Back on December 19th, I cited a column by colleague David DeJean, absolving HP of unreasonably costing consumers money by forcing them to unnecessarily replace ink cartridges. Now, David has ... Read More

Canon Introduces New Pixma

Sunday January 8, 2006
CES was the place for new product announcements, and one of them was that of Canon's new MP150 all-in-one printer. which will list for $90. The device, which will be ... Read More

PC World Looks At Photo Printers

Friday January 6, 2006
PC World features, in its latest issue, a rundown on what's happening with photo printers. Eric Butterfield reports that LCDs have become more common, along with media slots for memory ... Read More

Printing With Linux

Thursday January 5, 2006
If you're a Linux fan, and have found that you don't have the right printer drivers for your particular device, be of good cheer: According to this article, which first ... Read More

The DocuPen Handheld Scanner

Tuesday January 3, 2006
The Gadgeteer reviews the DocuPen R700 Handheld Scanner, a small pen scanner that you can drop in your backpack without noticing the weight, and use to scan lines from a ... Read More

What's In The Works?

Monday January 2, 2006
CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, is opening in Las Vegas this Thursday, and while I won't be there, I'm going to be following the news closely to see what kind ... Read More

CRN Looks At Color Lasers

Sunday January 1, 2006
CRN Magazine starts off the New Year with a review of three under-$1,000 color laser printers. Each has its own strengths -- the HP Color LaserJet 3600n offers the best ... Read More

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