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Archive for March, 2005

Managers are disenchanted with hard copy provision – the poor relation

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005 - Posted in Total Print Management, Issues | No Comments »

Issue #0510/1 - Could Leasing and Total Print Management be the answer to poor provision of Hard Copy facilities? Managers want more attention to be paid to hard copy provision.

New price point for home photos with new portable photo printers

Friday, March 18th, 2005 - Posted in Hardware, New Products, Comparisons, News, Total Cost of Printing | No Comments »

Issue #0509/1 - The arrival of Canon’s new dye-sublimation SELPHY CP600 heralds the arrival of a new price point for home photo printing—undercutting all the other printer manufacturers and approaching the cost of individual prints from some of the high street outlets.

Hewlett-Packard tackles pricing stability and predictability of Cost of Printing

Friday, March 11th, 2005 - Posted in Pricing, Issues, Total Cost of Printing | No Comments »

Issue #0508/1 - While a new round of price reductions on consumables heralds a revision of pricing strategy for Hewlett-Packard, aimed at injecting more stability and predictability for users, there is finally some evidence that some retail outlets are passing on savings – but others definitely are not!

Konica Minolta puts PictBridge on colour laser while Dell maintains the pressure

Friday, March 11th, 2005 - Posted in Hardware, New Products, Pricing, News | No Comments »

Issue #0508/2 - New low-cost colour lasers offer ever-higher levels of functionality and features at lower and lower cost. Konica Minolta ups the features while Dell downs the price.

Believed to be a first for colour laser printers, Konica Minolta has put a PictBridge interface on its new magicolor 2430DL, allowing digital camera users to print directly from the camera.

Hewlett-Packard sings the Blues in new 9-ink printer

Friday, March 4th, 2005 - Posted in Print Technology, Hardware, News | No Comments »

Issue #0507/1 - Having scorned other printer manufacturers for using Red, Green or Blue inks to supplement colours and extend chroma possible with traditional CMYK inks, Hewlett-Packard has now introduced a high-end A3 format 9-ink inkjet printer with the addition of Blue ink.