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Is This Scanned Email Attachment From My Printer Safe?

Matt Bird — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:33:01 +0000

We just thought we’d let our customers know about a new wave of threats hitting internet users. Mailicious spam emails are something we’ve all become accustomed to, but hackers are now reportedly mimicing emails from printers in an attempt to get users to download Trojan files. How is this email scam happening? Most new [...]

How To Get Rid Of A Stuck Print Request In Your Printer Queue

Matt Bird — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:53:35 +0000

It can happen in many guises. You may have a print job stuck as pending in your print queue…. You may have a print request stuck as “deleting” for hours…Either way, merely trying to print and your printer ignoring you is incredibly annoying. Trying to print, your printing ignoring you and the print job sitting [...]

We're Expanding Our Photo Paper Range

Matt Bird — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:52:36 +0000

We’ve recently had numerous enquiries about individuals wanting to print their holiday snaps. Whether from a weeks break on a sunny beach or a trip to the zoo, you want these memories to live on in vivid colours on your mantlepiece. Due to the varying nature of requests we have decided to fully update our [...]

A New HP iPhone Printing Application

Matt Bird — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:03:09 +0000

It’s been an interesting few months watching how manufacturers are responding to the changing landscape of technology. With the incredible globalisation and accessibility of information, coupled with technology making it easily-sharable, the demand for printing has risen, but the ways in which you can go about it has not. We’ve recently written about ways you [...]

A Fresh Look at Printing, the SWYP

Mike Derges — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:52:36 +0000

Could it be that printers may soon get a makeover? This awesome design from a team at Artefact suggests it could be possible! The “See What You Print”, or SWYP, is a prototype design. Tasked with the mission of “innovating printers” the group looked at the reasons why printer designs seem to have stagnated and [...]

Kyocera release 1M page Yield drum

John Sollars — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:11:45 +0000

Kyocera release 1M page Yield drum Kyocera Corporation have just announced the availability of its KYOCERA Mega Surface Series amorphous silicon (a-Si) photoreceptor drum, which offers record durability as a core component in electrophotographic printing equipment — including laser printers and multifunctional products (MFPs). The A4-sized a-Si drum is now available for shipment to equipment [...]

Canon start to include Apple’s Airprint in their new printers

John Sollars — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:00:50 +0000

Canon start to include Apple’s Airprint in their new printers:It can be difficult to get the content you want printed from emails or photos on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod onto a hard copy. Generally, if you have a printer that lacks printing from mobile devices natively you need an email account you can forward [...]

Origo - The Lego of the Future?

Mike Derges — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:12:56 +0000

Recently we’ve been covering some crazy science-based uses of printing technology (here and here if you’re interested), today I thought I’d mention a bit of less technical printer news. The 3D printing game has so-far been restricted to the realms of research, hobbyists or criminals but “Origo” a children’s 3D printer is now in development. [...]

A day in the life #4 - The Account Manager

Andy Warburton — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:16:45 +0000

This week we feature our jolly scottish account manager, Roy Hamilton. You wouldn’t know it from this video but he’s a cheery guy who just loves to help out our customers with their account queries.

Startup Britain - Bus Tour week 2

John Sollars — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:08:51 +0000

Startup Britain – What’s it all about? When the call came through, “Do you want to join the Startup Britain bus tour?”, my immediate reaction was, “What’s that all about?”. Having not heard anything about it I decided that as I was now going to be on the bus, I’d better find out more. Startup [...]