Hp Printers Archive

  • HP invents amazing new driver technology for their new LaserJet printers

    HP invents amazing new driver technology for their new LaserJet printers

    Posted on April 13, 2010 | No Comments
    Hewlett Packard is announcing that their new line of LaserJet printers is coming with an exciting new technology called "Smart Install". This thrilling -- nay, amazing! -- technological development allows users to install only the print driver necessary to print from their computer to their Hewlett Packard laser printer. No more shall users be required to install all the other fluff that printers have historically foisted upon them.

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  • HP to merge printers and PC to bolster both

    HP to merge printers and PC to bolster both

    Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
    HP's printer division, long a cash cow, is being folded into its PC division after sales of printers and ink fell this year. Most companies broke out their printer divisions once they realized they could make a lot of money there but now that HP is beating Dell, the company may see a good reason to bring printers and PCs together.

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  • TouchSmart Web packs a touch interface PC into your printer

    TouchSmart Web packs a touch interface PC into your printer

    Posted on September 14, 2009 | No Comments
    HP TouchSmartConvergence. That's the word that comes to mind when I watch the fancy demonstration of the HP Photosmart Premium TouchSmart web printer. We've all seen the all-in-one PC design, a la the iMac, but how often do we see a printer and a computer in one package? HP is bundling a teeny little touch-interface computer with their latest set of printers, allowing you to access stuff from the Internet without using your PC at all! Some of the examples don't seem particularly useful: I don't think I'm likely to go to my printer when I want to buy movie tickets, for example, but letting kids print out their own coloring books seems like a pretty good idea to me. And printing Google Maps will be helpful for those Luddite friends of mine who don't have GPS units.

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  • Cage Match! HP versus Kodak

    Cage Match! HP versus Kodak

    Posted on September 9, 2009 | No Comments
    Kodak: We’re the cheapest cost-per-page photo printers on the market! Look, here’s a whole bunch of independent research proving it! Nya-nya! Hewlett-Packard: NUH-UH! You’re a big fat liar, Kodak! We’re the cheapest cost-per-page. Kodak: Pfffft! Hewlett-Packard: Stop it! I’m telling! Hey CrunchGear! Kodak is being mean!! CrunchGear: What? Huh? Don’t make me stop this car! Full disclosure: Hewlett Packard’s PR [...]

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  • A Symphony of printers

    A Symphony of printers

    Posted on July 13, 2009 | No Comments
    inkjet symphonyHere's a fun video made by Kingston University design graduates Tom Wrigglesworth and Matt Robinson. They used 8 HP inkjet printers to make a clever time-lapse video. No word on how much it cost in ink to produce this.

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