Win a Kodak Hero 7.1 inkjet all-in-one printer!
We have a cracking Kodak printer to give away to a lucky Crave reader in our latest competition. The Kodak Hero 7.1 inkjet all-in-one does a super job while looking the biz, and it's also cheap to run.
You can send a page to be printed from anywhere in the world thanks to the Hero 7.1's support for cloud printing. Once you've set it up from the Kodak Home Center application, you'll be able to use your laptop or smart phone to print what you like, providing they're connected to the Internet. Continue reading...
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WebOS could come to non-HP gadgets
WebOS, the operating system that powers the HP Pre 3 and HP TouchPad, could end up on non-HP devices. That's according to HP's Jon Rubinstein, speaking at Qualcomm's Uplinq conference in San Diego yesterday.
HP is willing to partner with "one or two special companies" that can add something special to the webOS family of gadgets, said Rubinstein. Continue reading...
Lexmark Genesis S815 app-laden printer gets hands-on treatment 
Printers, scanners, copy and fax machines aren't the most exciting bits of tech, but every now and again one raises our left eyebrows a couple of millimetres. The Lexmark Genesis is such a fellow -- a vertical printermabob that uses photography techniques to scan your stuff, flashes disco colours and has its own app store. Click through the photos above to check it out for yourself. Continue reading...
Print straight from iPhone with Brother
Oh Brother, where art thou? Developing a printing app for iPhone and iPad, that's where.
The app from the Japanese printer manufacturer lets you scan and print from your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, if you have a wireless or network Brother printer bought since 2009.
The iPrint&Scan (iTunes link) app will print the photos from your photo albums, print straight from the phone's camera, or scan documents into the printer to pipe them on to your phone.
You don't need a computer or a driver, but you do need to be on the same network as a suitable Brother printer. Continue reading...
HP to slap Palm's webOS on printers, tablets and netbooks
HP will bring Palm's webOS, seen on the Pre smart phone, to tablet PCs, netbooks and Web-connected printers, as well as phones. Palm was recently acquired by HP for $1.2bn. For the full story, head to CNET News: HP: WebOS headed to Internet-connected printers.
In making the announcement, HP chief executive Mark Hurd engaged in a barnstorming bout of buzzword bingo. Continue reading...
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HP PhotoSmart Premium C309: A printer, but not as we know it
Here at Crave, we don't often test printers, so when we do, you can be pretty pigging sure they're among the best printers in the world. The new HP Photosmart C309 should theoretically fall into that category, as it's one of a new breed of machines that can be controlled via an integrated touchscreen display.
The touchscreen, which resembles an iPhone, allows users to access the printer's functions and settings. It can also be used to view previews of photos stored on USB, or online storage services such as HP's Snapfish system, thanks to the built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi adaptor.
This should make the C309 the most awesome printer in existence, but if our early tests are anything to go by, it is not. We can forgive the software installation taking approximately four weeks to complete, and the fact it constantly whirs, whines and clicks like a cheap, plastic R2D2, but we can't forgive the fact it's not particularly good at basic tasks you'd expect from a printer. Such as printing. Continue reading...
PrintBrush: The world's smallest printer -- and it's British
It's been a long time coming, but British company PrintDreams reckons it's ready to unveil the world's smallest printer: the PrintBrush.
The PrintBrush will print to A4 size, in black and white, at up to 600dpi resolution. As you can see from the video after the jump, you sweep it across the paper by hand, which means you can print on notebooks, greetings cards, boxes, sleeping badgers and other things that won't quite fit into a traditional printer no matter how much you wongle them about. It's also planned to be silent, so you can use it to print in meetings, recording sessions and funerals. And all this in a package weighing just 250g. Continue reading...
Lexmark Interact: The touchscreen printer with its own app store
Here at Crave towers, we're pretty old. We remember the days when men were men, women were women and printers were modular: that is, they had three main parts -- the case, some jammed paper and a flashing red light.
Today, printers are a hell of a lot smarter than we give them credit for. Take Lexmark's new all-in-ones, for example -- the newly unveiled range have iPod-style touchscreen control pads, connect to the Internet wirelessly over 802.11n Wi-Fi and can receive RSS feeds. RSS feeds, we tell you. What's the world coming to? Continue reading...
Dell 2130cn: Big, black, will probably break your back
We're pretty rock 'n' roll here at CNET. When we're not cruising in drop-top Jags or riding through Sweden on a tractor while wearing kimonos, we're testing the latest in colour laser printer technology. Someone really should write a book about our lives.
This morning we took our pimpin' to level 8 and broke out the Dell 2130cn -- a printer suited to people with small businesses, large homes or cube fetishes. It's unashamedly boxy and weighs as much as a newborn horse, but we balanced things out by connecting it to the smallest, dinkiest netbook we could find, making it the penny to our Eee PC T91's farthing. Continue reading...
Zero ink, Zero Boundaries: Zink challenges designers
Zink, the company that prints digital photos without ink -- zero ink, geddit? -- has launched a competition for designers, students and the bored to imagine what the future holds for instant printing.
Zink products work by baking specially treated paper, creating the print-out from crystals impregnating the paper. The result is a printed photo, dry-to-touch in under two minutes. Zink first appeared a couple of years ago, and after a no-brainer tie-up with Polaroid is now the technology behind the Polaroid Two digital instant printer. The company is looking for creative types like you -- yes you, you with the arms -- to come up with an instant printing system that will "re-imagine printing and its role in the digital world using the Zink technology to fuel the future possibilities of this unique technology platform." And make Zink lots of money, obv. Continue reading...
Canon Selphy CP780: Print the great outdoors
Canon must know something we don't -- it clearly thinks spring is crouching and poised. It just released a new Selphy dye-sublimation printer, the CP780, which is designed to connect directly to a digital camera to instantly print anywhere outside the house -- a picnic, Easter-egg hunt, mountaineering expedition, meth-fuelled road trip -- whatever the joys of spring inspire. Continue reading...
Riti Printer: Uses tea or coffee for ink
We've seen plenty of printers in our time, but this one is most definitely to our taste. Korean designer Jeon Hwan Ju, probably a beans person, has created the Riti Printer, which uses coffee or tea dregs in place of ink. It's probably good only for sepia printouts, but it's the kind of green tech we like very much.
Coffee or tea dregs are placed into the cartridge, mixed with a little water. You then move the cartridge left and right in the slot to print. It's not the most efficient printer for your home business, but, whether it's Lipton or Lavazza, it produces aromatic printouts you can personalise. Continue reading...
Polaroid PoGo Instant Digital Camera: Give it some stick
'Sharing' is an overused buzzword in the technology industry these days, but we have to admit there's a definite pleasure to be had from printing and handing round your photos. Polaroid may have ceased making film for its traditional instant camera, but isn't taking the advent of the digital age lying down: the Polaroid PoGo Instant Digital Camera takes a bow at CES 2009.
Sure, Tomy did get there first with the Xiao, but Tomy make toys and Polaroid make cameras. We got a sneak preview of the PoGo printer at last year's CES, where we were shown the ever-so-clever Zink technology. This replaces conventional ink with dye crystal-impregnated paper, bakes the image on to a print-out, and is dry to the touch within a minute. The original PoGo printer attached to camera or computer via USB, but now Polaroid has cut out the middleman with the PoGo camera. Continue reading...
Polaroid PoGo: Instant photo prints on the bounce
Hey kids: stop watching Hollyoaks for a second and come and look at this! Yes, we know Max has died, but this is way more interesting. It's the Polaroid PoGo Instant Mobile Printer! What is it? It's only a portable photo printer that doesn't use any bloomin' ink!
If that sounds familiar, it's because the PoGo was one of the coolest gadgets at CES 2008, despite then labouring under the name Polaroid Digital Instant Mobile Photo Printer. Fortunately the maketing wonks have been earning their Jaffa Cakes by coming up with the PoGo moniker. Continue reading...
Vapourware: The tech that never was
Vapourware may sound like a technical term to describe the gradual corrosion of a kettle, but today we're using it to describe a product announced by a company with great fanfare, hoohah and occasionally hullaballoo -- but that never materialises.
Continual delays, setbacks and excuses are the calling cards of a product that becomes vapourware. Windows Vista ran the risk of joining the club, and the terrific multiplayer first-person shooter Team Fortress 2 was in production for almost a decade before it was released in 2007. Devoted TF fans feared it would become a distinguished entrant in the who's who of vapourware. You might say Google Mail is in the running, having been in beta since 2004. Continue reading...
Polaroid Digital Instant Mobile Photo Printer: Ta-dah!
In 2007, we Craved the Zink printing system, which plugs into your camera and prints with zero ink involved. Instead, crystals are baked onto special paper and ta-dah! Instant prints. We remarked that this could be the Polaroid of the 21st century. Turns out Polaroid must have been paying attention, because it has licensed the technology and ta-dah! The Polaroid Digital Instant Mobile Photo Printer. Continue reading...
Brother DCP-135C: Quirky, cheap multi-function printer
We're pretty wild and crazy here at Crave. When we're not partying with rock stars, we're getting down and dirty with multi-function inkjet printers like the Brother DCP-135C. That's how we roll.
We're not sure which we prefer, but the DCP-135C is pretty cool. It'll do photo prints, scanning and colour copying. It's not slow, either -- in inkjet terms. It'll spew colour documents at 20 pages per minute or monochrome docs at 25ppm. And the best part is the price: the RRP is 60, but if you shop around you can pick one up for about 40.
Now the bad news: it took us literally 10 minutes to find the USB data port, because it's located on the inside of the printer, not the outside as one might expect. Brother says this reduces the chances of damaging the USB connector if you trip over the cable. To test this reasoning, we deliberately tripped over the cable and dragged the printer to the floor, causing it to shatter into a thousand little pieces.* Turns out Brother was right, the USB connector remained intact. Continue reading...
Samsung ML-1630 and SCX-4500: Printers that bring sexy back
Finally it's been done. Somebody's made printers that don't look rubbish! We'd begun to think it was a lost cause, but mad props to Samsung -- its new luxury printers look absolutely flippin' stunning.
The ML-1630 mono laser (pictured top) and SCX-4500 all-in-one (pictured bottom) are similar in shape to a DVD player or component hi-fi system, and are finished in the same glossy piano-black veneer as Samsung's TVs.
They also have blue touch-sensitive buttons and a sexy OLED-style display. These show letters and numbers made of oversize circular dots -- a bit like on the Samsung YP-K3 MP3 player. Continue reading...
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