UK:NEW PRINTERS FROM OKI, EPSON , CANON , & LEXMARK

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The latest printers from Oki, Epson, Canon, and Lexmark
Oki’s C3600 colour printer
Oki’s
new C3600 colour printer uses LED printing technology to produce colour
and offers mono printing that is comparable in quality to a laser
printer. The C3600 measures just 29cm high, 37cm wide, and 48cm deep,
but its paper tray can handle 250 sheets of A4. It can print on a
variety of paper sizes and labels, including banner prints that are up
to 1.2m long, making it a good choice for small businesses that need to
produce posters or other eye-catching marketing materials. It costs
£349.

Epson’s Stylus SX200, SX400, R2880 and S20, Stylus Pro GS6000, Business Inkjet B-500DN and the AcuLaser M4000 laser printer
Epson’s
Stylus SX200 and SX400 are multifunction devices designed for the home
office, which combine a colour inkjet printer, scanner and copier in a
single unit. Both models include a variety of memory card slots so that
you can print photos straight from a digital camera without having to
transfer them to your Mac first. On the scanning side, they also
include Epson’s Easy Fix software for removing dust and other flaws
from scanned photos, and OCR software for scanning text documents. The
SX200 costs £79.99, while the SX400 adds a 6.3cm LCD display for
previewing photos for £119.99.For professional users there’s the Stylus
R2880, an A3 printer priced at £569.99. The R2880 can print on a wide
range of media, including CD and DVD disks, fine art paper and even
certain types of cardboard. Epson has also developed a new
‘multi-image’ Photoshop plug-in for the R2880 and other large-format
printers that enables you to quickly combine multiple images on a
single page. The plug- in is available as a free download from
http://www.epson-europe.com.It’s not just cameras and camcorders that can do
the face-detection trick. Epson’s S20 Stylus printer has the ability to
detect skin tones within a photo and automatically adjust the colour
settings to produce the best results. It can also detect other types of
shots, such as a landscapes and skylines, and adjust the colour
settings for these too. The S20 costs just £39.99, and uses individual
cartridges for the various coloured inks – priced at £5.99 each – so
that you only need to replace the inks that actually get used up.Epson
is also planning to release the Stylus Pro GS6000 a large format
8-colour printer designed for producing posters and signs up on a
variety of materials, and up to 64in in size. The UK price has not been
announced yet.Most inkjet printers are low-cost models aimed at home
users and small businesses that need a cheap colour printer. However,
Epson’s new Business Inkjet B-500DN is a more powerful model aimed at
business users who need high-speed colour printing.Epson claims print
speeds of up to 33 pages per minute for the B-500DN, rivalling the
speed of more expensive laser printers. It also claims that the
printer’s running costs are comparable to that of a laser printer too,
at less than 0.5p per page for black and white printing and just 1.89
pence per page for colour. The B-500DN costs £382.The company has also
released a high-performance laser printer called the AcuLaser M4000 for
larger organisations that need high-speed, high-volume printing
options. Priced at around £600, the M4000 can print up to 43 pages per
minute, even at its maximum 1200dpi resolution. Its twin paper trays
can hold 750 sheets of paper, and it can handle a workload of 20,000
pages per month.

Canon Selphy CP770, CP760, and Pixma iP100
Canon’s
Selphy CP770 photo-printer folds up into a kind of bucket shape,
complete with handle so that you can carry it around with you. The
CP770 costs £139, and you can buy a portable battery pack for
£50.There’s also a more conventional version designed for home use
called the CP760, priced at £89. Both models use dye-sublimation
technology to produce photo-prints. Canon says that this makes the
photos more durable than prints from conventional inkjet printers, as
each print has a special coating that protects it from water splashes
or fingerprint marks.The new Pixma iP100 is a portable photo-printer
designed for travelling business users, or home users who simply want a
compact printer that doesn’t take up too much space. The iP100 measures
32cm wide, 18.5cm deep and 6cm high and weighs just 2kg. It has a print
resolution of 9600x2400dpi resolution and Canon claims that its
rechargeable battery can print up to 290 pages when fully charged. The
only drawback is that the £199 price tag seems a bit steep to us.

Lexmark Z2320, Z2650 and X4650
Lexmark
has turned its attention to home users and students, with three new
models that aim to provide high quality printing at a competitive
price.Abandoning the rather bulky design of previous models, the new
printers are more compact and have either a black or white finish. The
new range starts at just £39.90 for the Z2320, which claims print
speeds of up to 22 pages per minute for black and white documents, and
a maximum print resolution of 4800dpi for photo-printing.For just £10
extra you can get the Z2650, a ‘multifunction’ printer that also has a
built-in scanner, copying features and OCR software (optical character
recognition) for scanning text documents.Finally, there’s the X4650,
another multifunction model that combines printer, scanner and copier
in a single unit. This one is more expensive, though, costing £129.99,
as it also includes wireless networking features that allow you to
share the printer with other users on your home network. This model can
print at up to 25ppm, and it includes the latest 802.11n wireless
technology, which means that it will work well with Apple’s Airport
Extreme base stations.

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July 17, 2008 at 12:19 PM