HP was honored as “Best Printing Technology Provider” and “Best Printing Hardware Provider” during the gala awards dinner at the recent inaugural Print & Imaging Summit™, a global business event designed to help IT executives take advantage of new print technologies, services and solutions.

The awards, voted on by attending chief information officers and senior IT executives, recognize the technology providers with the best solutions and the highest level of excellence in their category.

HP Rolls Out New Printers for SMBs

Hewlett-Packard Co. last week unveiled laser and ink-jet printers aimed at small and midsize businesses, as part of its push to get SMBs to move their printing jobs in-house.

By Shelley Solheim, eWEEK

HP added to the lower end of its color laser printer lineup with the $399 HP Color LaserJet 2600n, which prints 8 ppm (pages per minute) in color and in monochrome.

Epson develops eight-ink printing system, printers

Epson aims new printers at high-end PC printing and professional market

By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service

Seiko Epson has developed a new eight-color ink printing method aimed at the high-end PC printing and professional market and will shortly put compatible printers on sale worldwide, it said Wednesday.

The new method is called UltraChrome K3 and is a refinement of an existing Epson technology. It makes use of nine different types of ink, eight of which can be used at any one time.

Kodak Seen Selling Inkjet Printers in '06

Source: Reuters

NEW YORK— Photography company Eastman Kodak Co. is expected to introduce consumer inkjet printers next year and could challenge entrenched makers such as Lexmark International Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., industry analysts said on Tuesday.

Seiko Epson Sues Printer Cartridge Makers

Company says it is not trying to stamp out third-party cartridge manufacturers.

By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service

Moving to protect its lucrative printer cartridge business, Seiko Epson has filed patent infringement lawsuits against two companies that manufacture replacement cartridges for its printers.

Seiko Epson claims that certain cartridges made by Arcor, of Nantes, France, and Multi-Union Trading, of Hong Kong, infringe on several of its cartridge-related patents.

First Look: Epson's Big, Beautiful Photo Printer

The Stylus Photo R1800 produces large, high-quality prints, but it doesn't come cheap.

By Richard Jantz, PC World

Just as digital cameras have become viable alternatives to film cameras, home-printed digital photos now rival the quality of the traditional silver-halide prints that commercial photo labs offer--that is, if you're using a top-quality printer such as the new Epson Stylus Photo R1800.

Save Money with Compatible Toner and Inkjet Cartridges

Compatible toner and inkjet cartridges offer consumers great savings over brand name replacement cartridges.

Source: PRWEB

American consumers are sick and tired of paying high prices for name brand inkjet cartridges and toner cartridges. In some cases, the cost of replacement cartridges is almost more than the cost of a new printer. This is crazy. The printer companies are happy to sell you overpriced ink cartridges. They want you to think that you have to buy the replacement cartridges from them. But, you now have a choice.

Lexmark T430dn

The Lexmark T430dn offers good performance for the price, though its output could look better.

By M. David Stone, PC Magazine

Consider the Lexmark T430dn ($849 direct) as Lexmark's answer to the HP LaserJet 2420dn. Priced $50 less than the HP printer, the T430dn offers a 32-ppm engine compared with the 2420dn's 30–ppm speed, similar performance on our business-applications suite, and matching quality scores for text and photos. It stubs its toe on graphics compared with the HP printer, but makes up for that with an option for higher paper capacity.

HP LaserJet 4345x mfp

The HP LaserJet 4345x mfp is faster than most printers, and it serves as a fax machine and digital sender too.

By David Stone, PC Magazine