Oki C530dn Printer Review

Posted on January 19, 2012 by admin

To make the most of in-house colour printing you need a solution that’s fast, versatile and tough enough for heavy workloads. And you need it to be affordable and easy to use. You want Oki C530dn.Oki-C530dn

As well as fast print speeds, stunning image quality and excellent media flexibility, this versatile, compact printer comes with advanced productivity features – including double-sided printing and built-in networking – that the whole team will appreciate.

The C530dn lets you print an impressive variety of high quality single- and double-sided documents, from everyday emails and letters through to business cards, brightly coloured banners and customer-facing marketing material.

The C530dn has impressive green credentials. Automatic double-sided printing reduces paper use, its ECO feature help conserve energy and resources, and a special Deep Sleep mode cuts power consumption to less than 1.1W.

 

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Genesis S815: a compact Multifunction Printer from Lexmark

Posted on August 12, 2011 by admin

Lexmark Genesis S815The Lexmark Genesis S815 is a small, multifunction printer capable of high quality scanning and printing.

This unlikely looking all-in-one offers a wide range of options and includes features such as Wi-Fi, built-in Fax machine and Automatic Duplex; and it’s only a little larger than a sheet of A4 thanks to the vertical scanner positioned on the front of the machine.

The scanner is able to capture an A4 page in less than three seconds using a FlashScan technology and a 10-megapixel image sensor. Print quality, is high particularly for photo printing. Individual colour and black ink tanks, combined with well-priced refill cartridges mean the Genesis is economical to run.Lexmark Genesis S815

The Lexmark printer is compatible with Mac, Windows and Linux operating systems and the 4.3” touch screen  in the centre of the front panel allows easy access to all the options.

If you need a multifunction printer for instant scanning and high quality prints and you don’t have a lot of space on your desk, then the Genesis S815 could be the right choice for you!

If you would like more information on choosing the right printer why not have a look on our online articles: how to choose your next Printer and Laser Printer Guide.

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The Printer That Chocolate Lovers Will Love!!!

Posted on July 29, 2011 by admin

A 3D printer that uses chocolate instead of an ink has been designed by University of Exeter. Although this is still a prototype several other retailers have shown a great interest in the device and plan to purchase the printer in the near future.

Printer printing chocolate

The 3D Chocolate printer works using the same method as other 3D Printing techniques. The printer starts off by producing a flat cross section image – similar to that produced by normal printers. A 3D shape is then formed – layer by layer, printing chocolate instead of ink. As each layer is being formed, it becomes solid, and then the machine moves on to the next layer and the process continues until the whole 3D printout is completed.

3D Image printed using chocolate

 

 

The impressive thing about the 3D chocolate printer is that it allows customers to be able to design any object on a computer before hitting the print button. All the things and possibilities that can be done with this printer like creating 3D faces for instance – are endless.

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Cut your printing costs in half with Managed Print

Posted on July 21, 2011 by admin

Regardless of the size of your business, it can be very difficult to manage and control your printer work costs. You can find yourself dealing with price hikes, maintenance costs and high wastage.

Managed Print Services may represent the best choice for any kind of work environment and budget, helping companies to be more productive and cost efficient in a very easy way.

With Managed Print, experts will provide you with the best business printer solution, tailored to your needs. As a result it will help reduce your costs and use your resources as economical as possible.

A Managed Print solution will provide the maximum flexibility with the simplicity and reassurance of fixed costs, and there’s nothing else you will have to worry about.

There’s a number of managed print solutions around. Three of the most popular are Oki Managed Print, Xerox PagePack and Managed Print UK. The latter offer a number solutions from different manufacturers and will source out the best one for your printer requirements.

Here’s a typical example from Managed Print UK…

Buying a Xerox 28dn (£355) and getting a 1 year agreement will cost 8.5p per colour page and 1.5p per mono pages saving up to 70p per print! Moreover you don’t have to think about maintenance fees and consumable costs.

Calculate yourself your potential saving!

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Colour Laser Printers Don’t Come Tougher!

Posted on June 27, 2011 by admin

Looking for a tough robust laser printer that will survive anything? Well look no further than the Dell 3115 laser printer! This impressive printer from Dell managed to survive a EF-4 rated tornado. Hear the story from the printer owner himself… 

“…I wanted to share a photo of my 3115cn on 4/28/2011, less than 24hrs after an EF-4 rated tornado directly hit my office. A couple of days after the tornado, it was moved inside, but without much hope that it actually survived. About three weeks later I found the power cord. I plugged it up with crossed fingers, and I’ll be damned if it didn’t make me a blk/white copy…and then a perfect color copy. I can’t fax on it anymore, as the feeder tray at the top no longer works, and it gives me a blue hue when I copy, as the lid doesn’t shut all the way, but, I can print anything from my computer and it’s perfect!…”

Dell 3115 printer

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Canon i-SENSYS LBP5360 Printer – Review

Posted on June 15, 2011 by admin

The Canon i-SENSYS LBP5360 Colour Laser Printer

The Canon i-SENSYS LBP5360 is a colour laser printer with a number of eye catching features. These come in the form of speed, first page out time, the DPI and the toner capacities. According to Canon the i-SENSYS range is designed to be space efficient, minimise energy and save time. All of which the i-SENSYS LBP5360 lives up to.

The i-SENSYS LBP5360 is designed with an in-line laser engine which works vertically so paper being fed from the 250 sheet paper tray at the bottom passes up the printer and feeds out to its top surface. In doing this the paper passes a colour print mechanism which applies all four colours in a single pass. This may not sound like such an amazing feature until you realise that this means your colour prints will at last run at the same speed as your mono (black) prints.

We found the print speeds to be exceptionally good, with our 5 page black text document printing in just 25 seconds giving us a fantastic print speed of 11ppm. What then surprised us was the time it took to print our five-page mixture of colour graphics and text document. The i-SENSYS LBP5360 printed this document in just 20 seconds (14ppm), which is an amazing 5 seconds faster than a plain black text document and an incredible speed for text and graphics. The LBP5360 also has automatic duplex print capabilities which we also tested. Our 20 side document took only 1:17, this is just over 15 sides a minute and almost the Canon quoted speed of 21ppm. The first page print took only 13 seconds to come through, which is just a bit slower than the quoted 10 seconds. With such little warm up time the i-SENSYS LBP5360 is able to wake from sleep mode almost instantly when it receives a print job.

The print quality of the LBP5360 is also very good with black text coming through sharp, clear and well defined with well-formed characters even at smaller font sizes. Colour graphics were smooth and true to the on screen image. Even colour photos looked natural and smooth which is not what the Printer Experts normally see from a colour laser printer. This is in no small part down to the LBP5360s amazing 9600 x 600 dpi resolution.

Although the i-SENSYS LBP5360 has four separate drum and toner cartridges to maintain the running costs are definitely at the cheaper end of the spectrum. With each cartridge able to produce 6,000 pages at 5 per cent cover you will not be forever maintaining them.

Overall the Canon i-SENSYS LBP5360 is a great colour laser printer. It is able to turn out high quality prints at blistering speed. With a low asking price, cheap running costs and easy maintenance this a very attractive purchase for a small office or large workgroup. The i-SENSYS LBP5360 is highly recommended by the Printer Experts.

 

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Dell 1350cnw Printer – Review

Posted on May 23, 2011 by admin

Dell 1350cnw

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Dell 1350cnw is the world’s smallest A4 laser class network printer.  The dimensions of the 1350 are 394mm x 300mm x 225mm (W x D x H) which takes up less space than a lot of inkjet printers.  Also with a weight of only 23 pounds it means that most people can move the printer on their own.

The Dell 1350cnw also uses LED technology which uses LEDs to draw the page image onto the print drum.  The advantages of this technology are the low energy usage and lower manufacturing costs, perfect for the more green conscious offices.

Here at Printer Experts we found the wireless set up of this printer fairly simple and straight forward unlike some other wireless capable printers, where wireless set up can require more in depth knowledge of your network. The 1350cnw also has optional USB and Ethernet connections.

For a printer of this price we found the speed tests to be very good.  The 1350cnw printed our 20 page text document in a very reasonable minute and a half.  However these print speeds improved dramatically once we had optimised the printer for monochrome printing, with the same 20 page document coming in at well under the minute mark.  The 1350cnw also had very similar results when we tested colour graphics.

The print quality was something that also exceeded our expectations.  We found the text to be very crisp and precise with the colour images looking vibrant and realistic.

Overall, the Dell 1350cnw is a small and tidy colour laser that prints good looking documents.  If you need a fairly heavy duty personal printer or a shared printer for a small office then the Dell 1350cnw is definitely one of the best printers for the job.

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Xerox Phaser 6280 Printer – Review

Posted on May 19, 2011 by admin

Xerox Phaser 6280

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Xerox Phaser 6280 is an affordable colour laser printer designed for busy workgroups producing quality colour prints. The Xerox Phaser 6280 range comprises of the network 6280N version and the duplex included 6280DN which are also available on PagePack.

With Xerox claiming great speeds of 30ppm for mono and 25ppm for colour printing we put it to the test.  Printer Experts found the claims to be spot on, with a simple 30 page word document printed in just under a minute. Our 20 page colour document was printed at a blistering average speed of 25ppm. We also tested the duplex print speed on the 6280DN, which took only 18spm to print the same 30 page mono document. The impressive duplex speed is due to the printer taking the sheets in pairs, duplexing them right after each other.

With such speeds you might expect print quality issues but we found this not to be the case. Black text is clean and clear at all fonts sizes. Colour graphs and charts were vibrant with good sharp solid fills and had fantastic shading. Even the trickier colour photo tests produced results better than most of its competitors with a nice colour balance, fine detail and good detail in darker areas.

Overall the Xerox Phaser 6280 range of printers are brilliant business printers that produce good looking documents at a superb speed, able to handle the output from several people in a workgroup

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How To Print Green

Posted on May 16, 2011 by admin

Try to incorporate these green business practices to keep the environment and your costs healthy.

Switch to an All in One – By having just one multifunction printer instead of individual scanners, printers and fax machines, means you will be only buying supplies for one device. As well as saving money, you will be cutting down on all the energy you would be using to power all of those other devices.

Duplex Printing – This means being able to print on both sides of a piece of paper, which will obviously reduce the amount of paper you use. There are many printers and multifunction printers that now have automatic double-sided printing.

Bulk Buying – If you buy your toner or paper in bulk you will save on the cost per unit and also reduce the amount of waste packaging. High-capacity or high-efficiency items will lower your per unit or per print cost.

Recycled Paper – Using recycled paper and recycling paper not only saves trees but also energy, chemicals and water. The Paper Industry Association Councils goal is to reach 60% paper recovery by 2012. Having recycling boxes at each desk and using environmentally preferable papers will help to reach this goal.

No Paper – Keep it simple, distribute documents electronically instead of a hard copy when you can.

Preserve Ink & Toner – For the less important prints that don’t need a higher quality print, consider using your printers draft and toner saving modes.

Recycle Empty Toner Bottles and Cartridges – Help to keep used printer supplies out of landfills by taking advantage of recycling programs.

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Canon Wins Four TIPA Awards

Posted on April 26, 2011 by admin

 

Canon have announced that they have won four prestigious Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) awards.  The TIPA awards are the most converted imaging accolades worldwide, celebrating the previous years best products.

Leading photography editors from around Europe make up the TIPA panel and judge the products on everything from innovation, design and product quality.

This year Canon picked up awards for the best entry level DSLR, best superzoom camera, best professional lens and the Canon Pixma MG8150 was awarded the best multifunction photo printer.

Canon Europes Product Marketing Director, Steve Marshall said “The TIPA awards are well known for independently acknowledging the very best imaging products, and we’re pleased to be so strongly represented across such a broad range of categories. These awards clearly demonstrate the quality present across Canon’s entire range, from multifunctional printing and consumer cameras to professional imaging, and highlight our commitment to achieving excellence across all categories.”

The TIPA judging panel offered the following citation on the Canon Pixma MG8150:

The Canon PIXMA MG8150 offers advanced printing technology in a beautiful black box design. With the new Intelligent Touch System and direct Flickr access from the Canon Easy-PhotoPrint EX software, making photo prints from a variety of sources has been made easier for all levels of photographers. The new Full HD Movie Print Function allows users to print their favourite moments from full HD movies, an exciting feature that fits right in with camera trends.

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