This printer was shown at the GITEX show in Dubai, it is made from 24 carrot gold and is supposedly part of numerous gold and silver HP Laserjet P2015s. Its a perfectly working prototype and an auction was held with a starting price of $299 after the event.
Let’s do amazing! That is the slogan for HPs new advertising campaign. But what does it mean, maybe this video can help explain a bit:
This excellent advertisement was made by Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth in response to a D&AD Student Awards brief set by HP. The video was made with the concept of “Presenting an idea which promotes HP Workstations ability to bring to life anything the creative mind can conceive” and does indeed portray that idea.
Some of you may remember the posts about the two portable printers: The PrintStick and The Stick POP concept. I’m sure one question must have passed through you minds as it did mine at the time, who really needs a printer so much that they need to carry one around with them. But then I saw the following video on youtube and realised that maybe some people do need a printer that much.
At starbucks it not rare to see the odd person working away on a laptop while sipping on a latte, but this guy actually sets up his own printer to print out some photos. What I dont understand is why he went through all that trouble just to print some photos, maybe he doesnt have the internet at home, but he still could have saved the documents on his laptop and printed them at home, or maybe he’s just crazy.
This guy either needs to get himself some office space or a portable printer.
The previous post on the HP slate was sort of left hanging as HP didn’t reveal much about the specs or cost of the device, probably because they wanted to see what apple had in store with the iPad first. Well The Wall Street Journal have reported that there are plans to undercut the price of the iPad.
In the next few weeks, executives from Hewlett-Packard Co. will meet in the U.S. and Taiwan to tweak prices and features on an upcoming keyboardless computer dubbed the Slate, said two people familiar with the matter.
H-P has discussed selling a version of the Slate — similar to the iPad in size and features, and including a cellular connection — for a price below the $629 Apple charges for an equivalent iPad, one of these people said.
So still not to much news on the specs, but I’m sure that they will be released soon enough.
Lately HP seem to be questioned a lot about their cartridge prices, and there’s no reason why they shouldn’t be. The reason this has come to mind is because I have been looking at the page yield for a couple of HP cartridges on the official HP site. For those of you who don’t know, page yield is basically the number of pages you can print with a give printer and cartridge.
The cartridge product pages on the HP site do specify the approximate cartridge yield, but they do not specify what the cartridge yield is based on and to find this out on the HP site is almost impossible. HP use the the ISO 24711 testing guidelines, for more information you can go to this page on the HP site: http://h10060.www1.hp.com/pageyield/articles/uk/en/IsoInkjetYield.html (had to bookmark it to be able to find it again). But basically they print out 5 test pages (image on the right) one after the other over and over again until the printer says the cartridge is empty.
Although you would think that the tests are carried out to give the buyer an insight into how many pages they will get out of their cartridge, HP state that the results they get may not be what you will experience for regular every day printing. One of the reasons for this is that when you use your printer at home, you will usually print out one or a couple of pages and then not use the printer again until you next need to, and while your printer is not printing it will still use ink to keep the nozzle clear. Whereas when HP do their tests they will print continuously and because of this get more pages out of the ink cartridge.
To be fair, all this information is on the HP site, the only problem is finding it. I’m sure a regular buyer doesn’t want to trail round the site looking for this information when all they want is to quickly buy an ink cartridge.
The topic of ink cartridges being so expensive has been talked about a lot lately, some have even proven that printer ink is one of the most expensive liquids around. Lots of people are raising the subject of the unreasonably high cost of ink cartridges but not talking so much about why the manufacturers (especially HP) are charging so much for it.
There is actually a reason the manufacturers are doing this. If you think about how much an actual printer costs, you will be surprised at how cheap they can be. The printer manufacturers bring out products at low prices so that households have access to them. The problem with this is that to make any money they have to sell the ink cartridges at a stupid price. This has been a common business plan for many other products through out history i.e.: cheap razors but expensive razor blades, cheap or even free phones but expensive contracts, cheap games consoles but the games cost a fortune, etc.
Although this may be true, printer manufacturers charge this much for ink because they just can, because there is a demand for the product and people do pay the ridiculous prices for original ink cartridges.
The one thing that can be done to save money on your ink cartridges is buy remanufactured or compatible ink cartridges. It does so happen that we sell both 
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Over the year I have discovered, as many of you also will have, that one of the most annoying and sometimes difficult tasks when installing a new computer device is finding the right drivers. This is the case even more so now with the windows 7 compatibility issues, looking for the right drivers for your printer can be a daunting task.
So with this in mind I have compiled a list of the top 4 driver sites that you can download your HP printer drives from:
With all these sites available, you are bound to be able to find the right driver and if not then google is your next option.
HP have been one of the leaders in the printer industry for years, and with the help of Stratasy they are taking their products to a whole new level with 3D printers.
HP and Stratasys have made plans to release 3D printers later this year, but don’t get too exited about having your own 3D printer on your desk at home as they are currently only used by large companies and even though the two companies will be introducing the system into the ‘mainstream’, you would still be looking at anything from $15.000 upwards to buy one.
Although HP and Stratasys will be the ones to introduce 3D printers to the mainstream, these devices have been around since around 1986. So the technology is far from new, it just shows you how slow technology can advance sometimes.
This type of printer work by either building up layers of fine powder (usually plaster or resins), feeding liquids through a printhead to build up layers or in this case use fused deposition modeling that uses a nozzle to deposit molten plastic layer by layer eventually forming a 3D model.
Although these machines currently cost a fortune some companies (makerbot.com) will supply a DIY kit so you can build one yourself for under £1000.
Think of your pocket! Most Hp ink cartridges are worth money as an empty. You could cash them in through our HP ink cartridge recycling scheme. Donate the money to charity or have the cash back against your next order or to save for life’s little extra’s.
Think Conservation! It takes more than 90mls of oil when producing an average hp ink cartridge. For every cartridge that has been recycled it means that one less new cartridge has been sold, less sales means less production which means less oil being used!
Think of the Environment! Hp printer cartridges are made of plastics and metals that will take 100’s of years to decompose when buried in landfill sites, that’s if they decompose at all. These days we are more than aware that land filling Hp ink cartridges is not a good idea at all.
Other reasons to recycle your printer cartridges….
