Epson launches PX700W and PX800FW photo printers

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Epson has announced the arrival of its Stylus Photo PX700W and PX800FW printers, offering high quality colour images and, on the PX800FW, four-in-one functionality.

Epson claims that the quality of the photos printed by these machines exceeds that of photo labs.

The compact PX700W is fitted with a 6.3-inch colour LCD for easy perusal and selection of images, and features a high printing speed, with photos produced in around 17 seconds, plus integrated Wi-Fi and Ethernet for home networking…

Canon launches two new SELPHY photo printers: ES3, ES30

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Canon has announced two additions to its SELPHY line of photo printers: the ES3 and ES30.

Designed to be portable, with a compact, vertical design and fixed carry handle, the ES3 features a 3.5-inch LCD and the ES30 a three-inch LCD, for easy selection and editing of photos.

Key features include built-in image optimisation (trimming, red-eye correction), creating print button for adding frames and filter effects, direct printing from cameras and memory cards, wireless printing, plus storing of favourite prints in the ES3’s 1GB of memory…

Epson announces four new inkjet printers for the home office

Epson has today announced four new inkjet printers boasting not only high quality printing but a range of other features including faxing and wireless access.

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The Stylus Office BX300F (£79.99) is a compact 4-in-1 printer offering faxing, scanning, and copying. It uses individual DURABrite Ultra Ink cartridges, making it more efficient and without inks bleeding through the paper.

It will print up to 31 pages per minute, scans at 1200dpi, and comes with OCR software…

Canon launches two compact SELPHY photo printers

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Canon has announced the availability of two new SELPHY compact photo printers, the CP770 and CP760.

Both feature an easy-to-use design, user interface and button layout, have a 2.5-inch angled colour LCD TFT screen for displaying and editing photos, can print directly from a range of memory cards, and has image correction, face brightness optimisation, and red eye removal functions…

The Canon ImagePRESS C7000VP!

Check this out. It’s a printer. Only you’re very unlikely to be able to pick it up from PC World this weekend, primarily because you can’t pick it up and even if you could it wouldn’t fit in your car. It wouldn’t even fit in your dad’s mate’s van. Not even a long wheelbase.

The ImagePRESS C7000 is 33 feet long, but can do 70 pages a minute at 1200 dpi. It’s quite impractical, thinking about it, but there’s something strangely fascinating about printers this big. Look. It’s fantastic. It’s like a mini factory.

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Zink announces camera/printer hybrid and standalone printer

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Zink, an American company we’ve been hearing a little about in recent months, has finally confirmed two of their first products they’ll be launching shortly, and I must say, I’m sceptical as to whether they’ll be successful or not. Previous companies such as Fujifilm and Olympus have tried converging cameras and printers together, and not made much of a splash in the market…

3D printing moves one step closer…

Some boffins have been running tests involving laser printers. Test that, like all good tests, have involved dogs, facial restructuring and cutting-edge technology.

The scientists, from the Tissue Engineering Department at the University of Tokyo Hospital, have successfully printed out 3D bone replacements, using enhanced inkjet technology…