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11.21.09

Internet-Enabled Printer Requires No Computer

HP's new PhotoSmart Premium prints straight off the web

By Dan Smith Posted 06.22.2009 at 1:39 pm 3 Comments

HP is hoping there’re a lot of people out there with mass printing needs but without regular Internet access. Their new PhotoSmart Premium printer has a Wi-Fi-enabled touchscreen on the front that allows a user to print directly from the Internet. The idea is that the printer would be a quick way of printing out online directions, pictures, movie tickets, and so forth, without the need of a computer.

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Inside an Inkjet Photo Printer

Every time you hit "print," this $100 inkjet lays down thousands of droplets per inch of paper, with microscopic precision

By Theano Nikitas Posted 03.23.2009 at 12:37 pm 0 Comments

Even today’s budget-priced home printers churn out quality photos that a few years ago you could have gotten only from a professional printing house. Key to the high quality are steady improvements in print heads, which can eject smaller and smaller droplets of ink with ever-greater precision.

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Re-Print

Don’t blow a bundle on new ink cartridges -- top off the ones you’ve already got

By Mike Haney Posted 03.09.2009 at 9:19 am 8 Comments

I just replaced my inkjet printer, a model I’d bought less than two years ago—not because it broke or because I didn’t like the quality, but because it ran out of ink. Sound absurd? I paid $40 for the new printer (which scans and copies too). New ink cartridges for the last one would have cost me $55. Welcome to the economics of inkjet printing: Give away the printers, gouge them on the cartridges.

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The Desktop Factory

Roboticist Hod Lipson wants you to stop shopping and use his portable 3-D printer to make your own stuff

By Corey Binns Posted 05.10.2007 at 1:00 am 1 Comment

As a child, Hod Lipson lost Lego pieces constantly. Now the 39-year-old director of Cornell University's Computational Synthesis Lab can build replacement parts on the spot. Completed last year, Lipson's fabrication machine, called a "fabber," can print thousands of three-dimensional objects, everything from toy parts to artificial muscles, using dozens of materials, including PlayDoh, peanut butter and silicone, by following simple directions sent to it by a PC.

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