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Issue #0812/2 - Despite our appetite for all things small and portable, when it comes to A4 office printers, portability is something that does not tend to find a major place in the armoury. Portable printers are few and far between and are pricey in comparison to their desktop companions. Canon and Hewlett-Packard’s latest new models, PIXMA iP100 and Officejet H470 respectively, are small fast and capable of printing borderless photos at A4. We check out the needs of the travelling businessman and compare the two devices.

Issue #0809/1 - As part of its major product launch this spring, Hewlett-Packard has announced a raft of tools and resources, including the Marketing Impressions Portal, that are aimed at providing small business with in-house creative marketing tools to enable those businesses to gain more value out of their printers and increase the impact of their marketing materials. This is an integral part of Hewlett-Packard’s “What do you have to say” programme.

Issue #0807/1 - Oki is taking the principle of self-creation graphic arts to new levels, in a bid to encourage businesses and organisations to make more of their in-house printing capabilities, with the launch of v-studio – an online library of resources and royalty-free images that builds on its existing Template Manager software.

Issue 0806/3 - According to a recent survey, only 30% of businesses are ‘satisfied’ with their current in-house printer and only a similar proportion are ‘very satisfied’ with the quality of hard copy they achieve from the printer!

Issue #0519/2 - Some colour laser printers have up to 10 or 11 user replaceable parts while others have as few as five – some have toner cartridges producing 10,000 pages while others produce only 5,000. How does this affect cost?