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From the "how the heck did they do that" department come this news: Xerox has invented a paper that actually erases itself. The company's scientists - realizing that most paper documents are used only for a short time - created a paper that retains images for a day before they disappear. It's just one of their many "green products" which they have appropriately called "erasable paper." Patent pending.
This innovation is sure to please the environmentalists (which is no easy task for a paper/printer company) but it could also eventually provide businesses with an extremely cost-efficient solution for their printing needs - "eventually" being the operative word.
"While potential users have shown interest in transient documents, there is still much to be done if the technology is to be commercialized. "This will remain a research project for some time,' said Eric Shrader, PARC area manager, industrial inkjet systems.'' Our experiments prove that it can be done, and that is the first step, but not the only one, to developing a system that is commercially viable."
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From MarketWatch.com: The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is putting an Epson printer to the test to quickly and precisely print thousands of credentials using the recently announced WorkForce(tm) 40 desktop printer. The is the second year Epson has been called upon to assist in the preparations for the Primetime Emmy(r) Awards, which annually recognize excellence in primetime television programming. The WorkForce 40 features black text print speeds up to twice as fast as competitive models (1). It also produces laser-quality black text at up to 27 pages per minute (ppm) and laser-quality color text at up to 19 ppm in default mode (2). In addition, the WorkForce 40 offers built-in Wi-Fi(r) and wired networking to share and print files from virtually anywhere in a small office space (3). Read more. |
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From Graphic Arts Online: The DOT Printer, $30 million in sales, purchased Page One Digital, Costa Mesa, CA, for an undisclosed sum. The deal is DOT's (stands for digital offset technology) first in 10 years and the company plans to make more. Irvine, CA-based The DOT Printer, 200 employees, operates facilities in Santa Ana, Costa Mesa and Irvine, CA and Las Vegas. This acquisition, its first in ten years, operationally focuses The DOT Printer on the fast response, smaller runs enabled by digital technology…the heart of Page One Digital’s customer list. Page One Digital enjoys an outstanding reputation for quality digital printing and expertise in variable data marketing. |
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"Why can't there be one universal printer driver that knows where you are, finds the printer you need and just prints the job?"
Seems like a reasonable question from Robert Mitchell over at Computerworld.com. In his recent product review, Mitchell aims to determine the "universatility" (not his word) of the Xerox's Mobile Express Driver and HP's Universal Print Driver.
His conclusion: close, but no cigar.
"There's a rather big catch in each case," he writes. "Mobile Express works only with printers that use the PostScript page description language. It won't work with any other printers, including those that use HP's popular PCL format. Meanwhile, HP's UPD works only with HP-branded printers." |
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