TCPglobal - news, views and issues on total cost of printing

Issue #0636/1 - With two technologies contributing to this printer category, we briefly explain the technologies with their differences, features, benefits, advantages and disadvantages.

For reasons of practicality, only two printing technologies are used in portable photo printers – inkjet and dye-sublimation. Within the inkjet category, we find the usual two variants of the inkjet – thermal and piezo.

Issue #0635/1 - Several new colour laser MFPs have arrived at the entry level position, giving small businesses and departments within large organisations and corporations more opportunity and more choice of hardware with which to introduce colour into the office.

Issue #0635/2 - Viking in the UK is offering a free electric drill when customers buy two or more Viking branded toner cartridges - all ready to drill out the used cartridge and refill it!!

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Issue #0634/1 - Can Xerox be serious? New Phaser 6110 is allegedly “the affordable replacement to business inkjets”, yet Konica Minolta’s new magicolor 2500W costs 38% less to run even though it costs 2.6% more to buy.

Issue #0634/2 - Refresh products offer good value for money and sensible toner cartridge yields in a scenario where the Pacific split is again noted.

With two additional models in its new range, Konica Minolta’s magicolor 2530DL and magicolor 2550, like the 2300W, are also refresh products but where the biggest difference is in the purchase price.